Getting Marx and Foucault into Bed Together!

This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, and André-Jean Arnaud.     

Hail! Langdell!

Christopher Columbus Langdell (whose career ended a century ago) achieved fame by devising the case method to turn law into a laboratory science divorced from politics and to make his course so rigorous that it would attract able students seeking to test and prove themselves with the severest academic challenge. The method was adapted by many law teachers who were unpersuaded by the idea of law as apolitical science. These included Langdell's colleagues, James Bradley Thayer and John Chipman Gray, who shared Holmes's disdain for the theory. The method survived and flourished despite its theoretical weakness because it worked in practice. No mere rite of passage, it developed numerous traits and skills useful to lawyers, it revealed a true picture of the political and atomized nature of American law, and it nurtured many of the civic virtues that American law teachers have sought to nurture since the time of George Wythe.     

Sergei Naryshkin Mixes Together All Personnel

Dmitry Medvedev has established a standing commission on questions of personnel policy in the law-enforcement agencies. It is being formed on the basis of the temporary commission that dealt with the preterm evaluation of MVD personnel. The new commission will be chaired by head of the presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin (he also chaired the temporary commission), and the personnel of eight law-enforcement agencies will now be under its jurisdiction.     

共同受贿犯罪若干问题探讨

在刑法理论和司法实践中 ,共同受贿犯罪问题错综复杂、歧义甚多 ,有进行深入研究的必要性。首先 ,共同受贿犯罪问题理论研究比较薄弱 ,有创新的理论成果也较为鲜见。其次 ,司法实践中的共同受贿犯罪问题亟待解决。第三 ,处理共同受贿案件时执法不统一。认识上的分歧和法律规定的不明确 ,造成司法机关处理共同受贿案件执法的不统一。因此 ,只有深入研究受贿犯罪的理论和实际问题 ,深刻理解受贿罪的立法原意 ,才能取得新的理论成果 ,对司法实践起到积极的指导作用。本文拟就共同受贿犯罪的理论依据、共同受贿犯罪的认定和处罚等问题进行探讨 ,…     

About Each of Us and all of Us Together

Demographers are celebrating: the "Statistika" Press has published the collection Population of the USSR. 1973 [Naselenie SSSR. 1973]. Now a great deal of information that is important not only to demographers, and that was previously published in part in Vestnik statistiki, general statistical handbooks, and the seven-volume Results of the USSR Census of 1970 [Itogi Vsesoiuznoi perepisi 1970 goda], has appeared within a single set of covers. This is the first such collection since the war.     

与时俱进与政府创新

随着社会经济的发展,政府创新势在必行。通过创新政府理念,发展电子政务,建立学习型政府和富有创造精神的公务员队伍,来推动政府理念、目标、能力、形象的全面创新,不仅是与时俱进的精神内涵和具体要求,也是弘扬与时俱进精神的必然要求。。     

Remember to register!

The US Seventh Circuit of Appeals dismisses a plaintiff's attemptto circumvent the requirement to register a United States workbefore initiating proceedings for copyright infringement.     

Tackling Drugs Together: The Possibilities for a Confidential Drug Service

This article explores the exchange of personal information between agencies working with drug users and the 'problems' created by confidentiality. Confidentiality may be conceptualised as a form of information privacy, which in turn derives from a wider idea of privacy. The authors take as a case study the 'Wintercomfort Case', concerning a day centre for drug users in Cambridge. The focus is to look at the legal and practice implications of the case, and to examine in particular the tensions that exist between welfare and justice agencies who may have access to the same information, but who may also have different agendas and objectives in taking action.     

Putting Race and Gender Together: A New Approach To Intersectionality

European anti-discrimination legislation explicitly calls for member states to consider a legal response to multiple discrimination, either additive (arising from many grounds) or intersectional (a result of an interaction of grounds). In traditional Anglo-American anti-discrimination frameworks the structure of separate statutes forces complainants to choose one ground or another. In Britain, cases such as Nwoke v Government Legal Service indicate a judicial willingness to recognise additive discrimination, while cases such as Bahl highlight the difficulties of dealing with intersectionality. This article suggests that to overcome current difficulties with intersectional discrimination, first the qualitative difference of intersectional claims must be clarified; secondly, the logic of immutability underlying grounds must be replaced by one which accommodates intersectionality; and thirdly, a method is required which enables courts systematically to incorporate social context into judicial decision-making. With these three changes, the qualitative difference of intersectionality can be both understood and activated in the courts.