Geographical Connections: Law,Islands, and Remoteness

Liverpool Law Review - The paper introduces a special issue dedicated to cross-disciplinary research on insular condition and insularity. Situated at the crossroads of legal and geographical...     

Equity and Conscience

This article argues that the peculiarly ‘common law tradition’separation of common law and equity had at its origins a principledbasis in the concept of ‘conscience’. But ‘conscience’here did not mean primarily either the modern lay idea, or the‘conscience’ of Christopher St German's exposition.Rather, it referred to the judge's, and the defendant's, privateknowledge of facts which could not be proved at common law becauseof medieval common law conceptions of documentary evidence andof trial by jury. The concept of a jurisdiction peculiarly concernedwith this issue allowed the ‘English bill’ procedureto be held back to a limited subject area rather than—asin Scotland and the Netherlands—overwhelming the old legalsystem. By the later 17th century, however, the concept of consciencehad lost its specific content, leaving behind the problem, stillwith us, of justifying the separation of ‘equity’.     

Equity and Social Justice in Water Doctrines

The role of institutions in the management of natural resources, such as surface water, have long been seen as promoting an efficient and socially just distribution of the available resource. Perceptions of basic liberties and procedural and distributive justice are often at the core of many water disputes throughout the world. During the past 15 years there has been a number of extensive studies exploring community perceptions of fairness and justice in water management and the development of fairness principles (see e.g., Nancarrow, B. E., and Syme, G. J. (2001). Soc. Justice Res. 14(4): 441–452; Syme, G. J., and Nancarrow, B. E. (1992). Perceptions of Fairness and Social Justice in the Allocation of Water Resources in Australia. CSIRO, Division of Water Resources, Perth, Australia (Consultancy Report No. 92/38); Syme, G. J., and Nancarrow, B. E. (1997). Water Resour. Res. 32: 1843–1850; Syme, G. J., Nancarrow, B. E., and McCreddin, J. A. (1999). J. Environ. Manage. 57: 51–70; Syme, G. J., Nancarrow, B. E., and McCreddin, J. A. (2000). Risk Anal. 20(6): 905–916). This paper contributes to that body of knowledge by evaluating three water doctrines underpinning water management using a variety of social justice criteria, drawing examples from the United States and Australia as appropriate. The notion is that if the water doctrine of a state or country conforms to a set of social justice principles then the water policies derived from it should produce just outcomes.     

英国衡平法初探

14世纪英国衡平法的兴起是英国法制史上值得注意的历史现象.衡平法的出现不仅打破了普通法体系一统天下的局面,造成了罕见的一国之内两大法律体系并存几百年的奇特现象,而且在封建法……     

量刑基准论

量刑基准的合理确定,是量刑公正的基础和关键。量刑基准客观地存在于经验型法官的潜意识之中。量刑基准包含基准事实和基准刑两方面。在确定量刑基准时,应该先确定量刑基准的基准事实,后寻找基准事实对应的基准刑。为调和各地具体情况的差异性与宏观上量刑的相对统一性之间的紧张关系,应当同时构建由最高人民法院确立个罪基准事实、由地方各级法院确定基准刑并逐级备案的量刑平衡机制。     

刑事和解的法律冲突与衡平

作为被害人保护的一种制度，刑事和解逐渐成为各国解决刑事纠纷的有效机制，但也面临着诸如私力救济和公力救济之间，法律面前人人平等原则和同罪不同罚之间的矛盾。对于我国刑事司法制度的引进与构建而言，有必要从深层次上探索这些冲突和矛盾问题。从我国现实考察，可以看出无论从历史传统、现实的刑事案件的压力以及国际环境，都具备了确立刑事和解制度的条件。但是，应当确立一定的程序和规则，使刑事和解制度在规范的轨道上运行。     

对魏伊丝代际公平说的全面反思

为保护地球环境资源而创设的代际公平理论是建立在两个错误认识的基础上的,即把集合概念的人类视为类概念的人类和把地球环境资源财产化。假如没有后代人,人们也同样应该承担保护地球环境的义务。魏伊丝舍今世而求助于后代人及其权利,其原因在于权利时代所型塑出来的权利思维模式和路径依赖。虽然代际公平理论能够给我们提供观察和解决环境问题的时间视角,但它本身并不是什么新的法律理念,无法担负起指导现代环境法制建设和环境保护实践的重任。     

Incorporating Equity into International Water Agreements

River basins have provided resources for the advancement of human civilization from the earliest historic times. With river basin development has also come conflict, particularly in the past century. In response, the international community has developed generalized, global principles for the equitable allocation of water resources between nation-states, most notably through the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. These principles, however, have rarely been explicitly put into practice. To resolve or avert conflict in the world's 261 international river basins, riparian nations have instead relied upon treaties that incorporate basin-specific needs and conditions and define equity at the most local level. An examination of the progression of geographic thought on river basin development reveals a spatial focus that has not evolved beyond the basin and landscape scales. The absence of theoretical underpinnings for global frameworks may explain why riparian nations have not widely adopted general principles for the equitable allocation of water resources in actual treaty practice.     

Oh, Court of Equity!

Oh! Court of Equity, misnamed, where doubt Leads many in; whencefew or none, get out;

These woeful opening lines of a poem‘Court of Chancery’ by a Reginald James Blewittin 1827, was the way he took up the tomahawk, as he termed itin his preface, against a dire national enemy. In practice,in Lincoln's Inn, he found the great delay and ruinous expensesof a Chancery suit had become proverbial. After giving up practicehe found the tranquillity of the park at Fontainebleau moreconducive to overcoming his previous anguished existence withhis verse satirizing the tedium of proceedings, its expenseand the follies and conceits of former colleagues. Former colleaguesare named in     

股权转让法律问题研究——股转限制及股转效力分析

一、对股权转让的限制的分析(一)股权与股权转让权股权又称股东权(shareholder's right),指股东基于股东资格而享有的从公司获取经济利益并参与公司经营管理的权利。股权即是财产权,又是社员权。以其行使目的为准,股权可分为自益权和共益权。此种分类方法是股东权最为重要的分类方法,为日本学界通说,也逐渐为我国学术界广泛采用。股权转让权原则上归属于股东的自益权,但具有特殊性,受到来自方方面面的限制。(二)股权转让的基本原则股权转让的两项基本原则是股权的自由转让原则和股权的概括转让原则。其中股权的自由转让原则是指股东有权自由…     

国有股权的行使与监管——以国有控股公司为考察对象

作为国有资产管理体制的关键环节,组建国有控股公司是实现我国国有资产科学有效管理的必然选择。然而,基于国有股权的特殊性质,实践中国有控股公司中的国有股权行使与法律监管还普遍存在诸如国有代表不合格、内部人控制严重、监管措施弱化等突出问题。本文认为,要明确国有股东的范围、代表制度及其职能定位,并对后股权分置时代即全流通条件下的国有股权行使与监管进行必要的制度建设。