Law's Polyarchy: A Comment on Cohen and Sabel

This comment links Cohen/Sabels' idea of a 'directly-deliberative polyarchy' to the contemporary debate on the deficit in democratic legitimation of the European Union. Within this constitutional-legal debate the conventional options are either to defend a vision of the EU which separates global economic law from national sovereignty, and thus relies on the legitimising powers of free markets, or to regard the legitimation problem (at least under present conditions) as beyond solution: that is to say that any further progress towards an 'ever closer union' would inevitably increase the legitimation deficit, and to suggest that the capacity for political action of the nation state should be protected or restored. This comment seeks to show that the concept of a 'directly-deliberative polyarchy' offers an attractive alternative to these traditional positions because it breaks the stranglehold of the false dichotomy 'global market vs national democracy' and thus permits an extension of the idea of radical democracy to European Supranationalism.     

“布衣知识分子”的教育人生——刁培萼先生学术思想和精神遗产

刁培萼教授是一位卓有成就、富有个性的教育学专家。眼下学术圈中的许多现实,人们的疑惑与批评、坚守与挣扎、憧憬与怀想时常撞击我的心,推动我为这位素朴无华、个性执着的老师,写一点回忆和感念,它不仅是表达两年来淤积于心的哀思,更是灵魂的作业。作为国内第一本《马克思主义教育哲学》《教育文化学》和《农村教育学》的著作者,他在这三个教育学分支领域的开创之功,对南师大教育学科乃至全国教育学术界均具有学科奠基的重大学术价值。他看重的是学术本有的价值,他甘愿参与建设学术共同体,他享受教书、带年轻人和做研究的无比乐趣;他别无他求,需要的就是有时间、有机会做事情;再没有什么比自由思考、从心写作、无干扰地做事让他感觉更有意义、更畅快、更高贵。《教育文化学通论》是他一生教育学术集成和最后的呼唤,也是他生命一息尚存,学术劳作不止的明证。他坚持将教育实验融贯于教育哲学研究。他的平凡一生质本洁来还洁去。     

杰·柯恩教授访谈录--中国法研究、法律改革及其他

杰罗姆·柯恩 (ＪｅｒｏｍｅＡ .Ｃｏｈｅｎ)教授是美国当代中国法研究的开创人之一。从 60年代初开始研究中国法以来 ,柯恩教授对美国的中国法研究做出了重要的贡献。这些贡献包括 :创建哈佛大学法学院东亚法律研究中心、倡导中美之间在法律和其他方面的友好合作与交流 (包括担任北京—纽约姐妹城市美方主席 )、积极协助中国当代的法律改革、培养大量专长于中国法的海外学者和律师等等。 (对柯恩教授更详细的介绍 ,可参见《美国的中国法研究 :杰罗姆·柯恩教授纪念论文集》序言 ,载北大法律信息网 ,ｈｔｔｐ ://2 1 1 1 .1 0 0 .1 8.62 /ｆ…     

Professor Jane Ginsburg

In the first of a series of profiles of prominent intellectualproperty personalities, JIPLP talks to Jane Ginsburg. Jane isthe Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic PropertyLaw at Columbia University School of Law and Co-Director ofits Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. She has taughtat French as well as US universities