略论语境对英语词义理解的作用

习得词汇的方法很多，其中借助英语语言性语境和非语言性语境理解并把握词义，不失为一种行之有效的学习方法。     

从雇佣契约到劳动契约的法理和制度变迁

从雇佣契约到劳动契约的社会化变迁,劳动法对民法中的两大基本原则"平等"与"诚信"进行了理念上的更新,矫正了形式平等并升华了一般诚信,转向了劳动法中的实质平等和最大诚信。从合同的订立、履行、解除到变更,雇佣契约与劳动契约的法律调整呈现出不同的价值评判及处理手段。通过退休年龄的实例分析,可以发现劳动契约被注入了社会保险、岗位资源等雇佣契约所不具备的社会化因素。从社会化的角度出发,劳动者就是弱者,劳动法必须突破民法视域下雇佣契约平等保护的作法,进而实现单方面倾斜性保护劳动者的神圣使命。     

Reflexive Adaptation of Business to Regulation and Regulation to Business

Regulatory change is driven by competitive struggle. Regulatees struggle with each other for customers and with regulators to lessen the burden of the rules being enforced. Regulators compete for regulatees and for the confidence of customers and the general public.
Competition among regulators is imperfect. Along with better rules, new entrants must offer reputational capital, financial strength, and recognized enforcement powers. These entry requirements have supported a secular expansion of government suppliers relative to private suppliers. Principal-agent conflicts inherent in representative democracy establish incentives for this expanding sector to produce regulatory services of poor quality. Finding ways to make top government regulators economically accountable for acts of misregulation is a critical problem.     

农村土地承包经营权流转的现状、分析及其法律思考

通过对现实中农村土地承包经营权流转现状的介绍和理论分析,认为农民缺乏流转意愿是导致流转行为未广泛发生的根本原因,而在流转向产业化方向发展迅速的地方,公权力主体或农民集体组织都发挥了重要的推动作用;基于此,对现行的农村土地承包经营权流转相关法律制度和规范在促进土地承包经营权流转方面的作用进行反思,并提出制度完善和构建的建议.     

发展区域贸易安排是我国外贸发展的急迫和必然战略选择

区域贸易安排本是为WTO允许,但发达国家发展的过多的区域贸易安排,已经影响了WTO本身的发展,尤其多哈回合谈判中止后,区域贸易安排发展更加迅猛,已经有将WTO边缘化的危险,我国应当尽快制定区域贸易安排战略,并且通过大力发展区域贸易安排,保持我国对外贸易的健康发展.     

由民法学者的质疑而引起的对行政合同的再思考

合同的起源并不是因为合同主体之间的平等,而是源于不同主体之间利益互补的需要,这才是合同精要之所在。行政合同并没有混淆市场交易行为与国家对市场交易的管理行为,而恰恰是将这两种行为融合在一起。尽管行政合同存在着种种问题,但随着理论与实践日臻完善,这一管理方式终将成为现代政府进行公共事务管理的必然选择。     

论土地承包权与土地承包经营权的分离

源于土地承包经营权流转实践并得到政策确认的"三权分离",在理论上存在较大争议,其焦点是土地承包权应否从土地承包经营权中分离出来。土地承包权与土地承包经营权在权利主体、权利内容、权利性质以及侵权形态、救济方式和责任方式等方面均存在较大差异,两者应当分离。土地承包经营权包含土地承包权已造成理论上的混乱与纷争,导致土地承包经营权的功能超载,妨碍土地承包经营权的有序流转,影响承包人土地权益保护等不利影响,两者必须分离。寻求土地承包权与土地承包经营权分离的途径,既要对现行理论进行反思,关注改革实践以形成权利分置的理论共识;又要重视在《农村土地承包法》或《物权法》中进行土地承包权的制度设置以及土地承包经营权的立法完善等权利分置的制度构建等问题。     

未来20年我国科技法制建设的战略构想

为了实现我国社会发展目标 ,未来 2 0年我国科技法制建设的总体战略构想为推进科技政策法制化 ,适应社会主义法治国家的基本要求。在此构想之下 ,应实行三大目标战略 :一是促进企业科技创新战略 ;二是实施国家知识产权发展战略 ;三是强化国家科技资源整合战略。     

国际商法与国际经济法关系的法理学思考

大陆法系和英美法系之间存在着两种不同的法律部门划分的思维进路。按照大陆法系的法律部门划分进路所理解和界定的国际商法是“国际性的商法”,国际经济法是“国际性的经济法”。按照美国式法律部门划分进路,国际商法是指“国际商务中的法”,国际经济法是指“国际经济交往中的法”。在我国,尽管国内法部门划分采用的是大陆法系的思维进路,但在国际法层面上,尤其是在国际经济法领域,却较多受到了美国的影响。     

How to Push an Elephant Through a Straw: Using Wireless Technology in a Web-enhanced Skills Program

The title of this article derives from the expression used by programmers and developers to explain problems of limited network bandwidth connection speeds. The ever-increasing demand by growing numbers of web users for bandwidth-intensive media is outstripping the Internet's capacity to deliver information. In this case, the 'Elephant' is the massive online information system, including text, graphics, audio, and video, and the 'Straw' is the low bandwidth through which only a fixed volume can move. Generally, compression of data is the way to push that elephant through the straw. Included among those users competing for bandwidth are law schools. In the last decade, technology has begun to occupy a more pivotal role in American legal education. As law firms increase their use of technology in response to client demand, they must hire associates who graduate from law school prepared for high-technology law practice. The resulting pressure on law schools to incorporate technology into class materials and instruction has arisen contemporaneously with pressure to increase the teaching of lawyering skills. A tension arises, however, between the obligation of legal educators to expose students to emerging technologies and the additional burdens thereby imposed upon law schools to add lawyering skills to the the existing curriculum without displacing needed doctrinal and analytical instruction. The authors are faculty members and administrators at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Shepard Broad Law Center, which was named "Most Wired Law School" by National Jurist in 1998 and 2001. The centrepiece of legal education at NSU is a high technology Lawyering Skills and Values Program that employs wireless classrooms and web-enhanced education. Delivering a lawyering skills course through technology is not unlike pushing an elephant through a straw. The challenge is to accomplish pedagogical goals without compressing either the curriculum or the social processes of teaching and learning. This article describes and evaluates the authors' practical experiences planning, implementing, and teaching a Lawyering Skills course to first-year students in a wireless classroom environment.