Reframing the Role of Universities in the Development of Regional Innovation Systems

The role of universities in regional innovation has evolved over the last 20 years. This evolution has seen the emergence of a third role of universities that has re-shaped and transformed their two traditional functions of teaching and research. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for analysing variation in the roles performed by universities in the development of regional innovation systems. This framework is based on the triple helix model of university, industry, government relations, the literature on university engagement and the innovation systems literature, more generally. The framework is applied to a comparative study of three non core-metropolitan universities in Australia. A number of insights and issues are drawn in regard to conceptualising the role of universities in regional systems.     

May the Force Be with You: The Legal Classification of Intervention by Invitation

Netherlands International Law Review - It is a truth universally acknowledged that states can consent to the military presence of other states on their territory. This is better known as...     

Legislative Bellwethers: The Role of Committee Membership in Parliamentary Debate

Political parties and legislators use legislative debates to establish their reputation, challenge rivals, and engage in coalition management, among many other tasks. Yet, existing theories on parliamentary debates have abstracted away from the need for information and expertise, which are costly to acquire. Drawing on the “informational” perspective on legislative organization, we address this problem by arguing that party leaders use committees as training arenas for their backbenchers. They task their assigned members with acquiring specific expertise and then rely heavily on those members during the corresponding debates. We turn to the Portuguese legislature, from 2000 to 2015, to discuss how saliency, government dynamics, and party size affect the use of experts. We test this theory using a novel approach to classify speeches that leverages the texts of legislation as training data for a supervised approach.     

‘May Piece Be with You’: A Typological Examination of the Fear and Victimization Hypothesis of Adolescent Weapon Carrying

The causes and correlates of adolescent weapon carrying have received considerable scholarly attention. One common explanation of adolescent weapon carrying, the “fear and victimization hypothesis,” identifies the fear of victimization as a motivating force behind this behavior. Empirical studies of this explanation, however, have produced mixed results. One potential source of this ambiguity is the myriad data and measurement issues that have arisen in prior studies of the topic. The current study addresses many of these limitations through the use of panel data from over 1,100 youth across the United States. Through a typological approach, results support a multiple pathways framework for explaining adolescent weapon carrying, as the perceived risk of victimization is positively associated with weapon carrying for those youth who report both victimization and offending experiences. For those youth who are “pure offenders,” fear of victimization is inversely related to weapon carrying, while the perceived risk of victimization is unrelated to carrying weapons. Consistent with prior literature, results indicate that gang members report a disproportionately high level of weapon carrying.     

The Frontiers of Legal Analysis: Reframing the Transition in Northern Ireland

British constitutional legal discourse is structurally limited in its capacity to capture the complexity of the Good Friday Agreement. Rather than assessing the Agreement in narrow devolutionary terms, it should be seen as a hybrid domestic and international law instrument, making an important contribution to accepted international law norms in relation to self-determination. The Agreement transforms and partly transcends the Northern Ireland conflict by substituting political contestation for violent conflict, and by defining the modalities of conducting that contestation. This analysis complements classical international law perspectives, and opens up the application of legal discourses associated with 'transitional justice' to the legal and political transformation in Northern Ireland. These discourses focus on the problem of reconciling the demands of peace with the imperatives of justice. The Agreement sits squarely in this terrain with its provisions on 'dealing with the past' and 'institutional legacies'. The insights gained here challenge orthodox thinking about conflict-management and the ongoing political process.     

"儿童读经"论辩之辨析——以秋风与薛涌论争为个案

儿童“读经”是中国文化、中国教育的一种传统，但却是不好的传统。薛涌称蒋庆的读经理论是“走向蒙昧的文化保守主义”，秋风则起而为蒋庆辩护。两种不同的儿童观念，两种不同的教育学说，会造就两种不同的童年，两种不同的人生，甚至两种不同的人。这两种儿童观念和教育学说的对立，其实就是现代教育与传统教育的对立。全面了解薛涌和秋风的论战以及蒋庆儿童读经的原貌，我们会发现，其实秋风与薛涌的距离，远远小于他们与蒋庆的距离。这也是秋风与薛涌的论战堪称奇怪之处。     

Madness and the Law: The Derrida/Foucault Debate Revisited

In this article the Derrida/Foucault debate is scrutinised with two closely related aims in mind: (1) reconsidering the way in which Foucault’s texts, and especially the more recently published lectures, should be read; and (2) establishing the relation between law and madness. The article firstly calls for a reading of Foucault which exceeds metaphysics with the security it offers, by taking account of Derrida’s reading of Foucault as well as of the heterogeneity of Foucault’s texts. The article reflects in detail on a text of Derrida on Foucault (‘Cogito and the History of Madness’) as well as a text of Foucault on Blanchot (‘Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside’). The latter text shows that Foucault was at times acutely aware of the difficulty involved in exceeding metaphysics and that he realised the importance in this regard of a reflection on literature. These reflections tie in closely with Foucault’s History of Madness as well as with Derrida’s reflections on literature and on madness. Both Derrida and Foucault contend that law has much to learn from literature in understanding the relation between itself and madness. Literature more specifically points to law’s ‘origin’ in madness. The article contends that a failure to take seriously this origin, also in the reading of Foucault’s lectures, would amount to a denial by law of itself.     

走向规范性的法律实证主义--超越哈特与德沃金之争

两个平庸的人相遇或者碰撞,是没有什么值得我们关注的。但是当德沃金和哈特这样两位个性迥异,却又同样深刻无比的著名法学家,围绕着法哲学领域最艰深,同时也是最重要的话题进行了深入细致的讨论和持续的对话,那么就是一场法律思想的盛会了。如果你错过了这两个人物的这一场论战     

缺陷与克服:对答辩随时提出制度的反思

保证诉权与答辩权平等是民事诉讼法的基本原则,理想的民事诉讼程序应当保证这一原则得到落实。我国《民事诉讼法》在构建诉权与答辩权的关系时,实行答辩随时提出制度,被告可以随时提出答辩状而不会导致失权,其目的在于确保被告能够对抗原告随时变更、增加诉讼请求,答辩被视为被告的一项诉讼权利。《关于民事诉讼证据的若干规定》颁行后,原告变更、追加诉讼请求的时间受到了限制,答辩状随时提出丧失了制度基础,其缺陷日益彰显,构建答辩失权制度是克服这种缺陷的有效措施。     

Legislating Morality: Scoring the Hart‐Devlin Debate after Fifty Years

It has now been more than 50 years since H. L. A Hart and Lord Patrick Devlin first squared off in perhaps the most celebrated jurisprudential debate of the twentieth‐century (1959–1967). The central issue in that dispute—whether the state may criminalize immoral behavior as such—continues to be debated today, but in a vastly changed legal landscape. In this article I take a fresh look at the Hart‐Devlin debate in the light of five decades of social and legal changes.