论中小微企业科技创新人才法律保障机制的完善

中小微企业科技创新人才法律保障机制是指从法律上为生产规模较小、从业人员和营业收入较少的企业进行科技创新活动的人才提供保障的机制。我国虽然在《中华人民共和国中小企业促进法》、《中华人民共和国科学技术进步法》等法律法规和政策中对中小微企业科技创新人才法律保障机制进行了初步规定,但还是面临着缺乏专门立法、立法位阶不高、操作性不强、激励机制不完善等困境。美国完善的法律体系、英国的激励机制等值得我国借鉴。我们应该从清理和整合现有法律、法规政策、制定中小微企业科技创新人才保障法、完善人才激励机制和科技服务体系等方面完善中小微企业科技人才法律保障机制。     

论我国技术创新法制的“社会本位”重构

技术创新法制主要涉及专利法和相关竞争法。在我国的专利法即将修改、反垄断法已经实施的新形势下,我国现有的技术创新法制将面临总体上的重构,鉴于该重构异常复杂,我们有必要从法理学的视角进行较深入的思考。从我国的基本国情出发,借鉴国外的成功经验,并考察相关的哲学和经济学根据,我们认为:我国技术创新法制的重构应坚持"社会本位"的立场,以维护与技术创新有关的社会性创新、社会性竞争以及消费者福利等社会利益为根本任务。而该定位要求:专利法应通过修订回归于社会本位,也就是要确立"准弱化"的专利法;相关竞争法应强化其原有的社会本位,也就是要确立"最强化"的相关竞争法;二者皆以增进消费者的经济福利为最终诉求。     

On defense of “ethification” of law: How ethics may improve compliance with the EU digital laws

In recent years, academics and professionals witness the rise of the “ethification” of law, specifically in the area of ICT law. Ethification shall be understood as a proliferation of moral principles and moral values in the legal discourse within the areas of research, innovation governance, or directly enforceable rules in the industry. Although the ethical considerations may seem distant from mere regulatory compliance, the opposite is true. The article focuses on the positive side of the “ethification” of digital laws through the lens of legal requirements for impact assessments pursuant to General Data Protection Regulation and conformity assessments in the proposal for the Artificial Intelligence Act. Authors argue that ethical considerations are often absent in the context of using new technologies including artificial intelligence, yet they may provide additional value for organizations and society as a whole. Additionally, carrying out ethics-based assessments is already in line with existing regulatory requirements in the fields of data protection law and proposed EU AI regulation. These arguments are reflected in the context of facial recognition technology, where both data protection impact assessment under the EU General Data Protection Regulation and conformity assessment under the proposal of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act will be mandatory. Facial recognition technology is analyzed through the ethics-based assessment involving stakeholder analysis, data flows map, and identification of risks and respective countermeasures to show additional insights that ethics provides beyond regulatory requirements.     

Using EHRs to design drug repositioning trials: A devolved approach to data protection

One area where the application of data protection law has proven complex is in relation to the secondary usage of health data in EHRs for medical research. Here the tension between the privacy interests of patients and the risk of harm if such sensitive data are compromised, and on the other side, the potential societal value of utilizing the data for the benefit of medical science, is especially striking. In this paper, we consider the applicable provisions of the EU Data Protection Directive, and outline a general approach to patient data handling for research, which we believe to be compatible with relevant legal and ethical requirements. We then illustrate and apply this by reference to a specific EU FP7 project, involving EHR data processing to select patients for clinical pharmaceutical trials. After introducing the project (PONTE), we explain the ‘devolved’ data protection architecture it employs and provide a legal evaluation.     

个人信息权的体系化解释——兼论《个人信息保护法》的公法属性

《个人信息保护法》是数字时代个人信息保护的基本法。它采取了将个人信息权作为新兴公法权利的思路,确立了完整的个人信息权利保护体系,在个人信息保护问题上和《民法典》一起形成了公私法共同协力的进路。《个人信息保护法》以权利束的方式规定了个人信息主体的知情权、决定权、查阅权、复制权、更正权、删除权、可携带权和信息权利救济权等。《个人信息保护法》从立法依据、权利体系、条文设计和规制措施上都体现出鲜明的公法属性,这也可以从基本权利的双重面向和个人信息国家保护义务得到理论上的证成。这部法律是数字时代公法秩序的基石,它对公法边界的形塑仍需通过其实施来确立。     

关联性要素与地理标志法的构造

产品与产地的关联性是地理标志的核心要素,其重要性好比独创性之于作品、新颖性之于专利、显著性之于商标,是构建地理标志独立理论的基础。对于关联性要素存在主、客观两种理解,分别构成反不正当竞争等一般法保护和专门法保护的理念基础。主、客观关联性塑造了不同的地理标志概念,其各自构建的地理标志制度在适用产品范围、产地划定、关联性证明、专家审查、监控和保护等方面均存在明显差异,体现了地理标志保护公、私权之分野和不同政策取向。我国存在地理标志保护多重立法,其地理标志定义逻辑混乱,制度设计扭曲,彼此缺乏配合支持。应根据关联性要素并结合我国的政策导向进行制度重构,整合建立统一的地理标志专门法,删除商标法之地理标志定义中的“自然因素或者人文因素”之表述,采取专门法保护为主、商标法保护为辅,彼此协调共存的模式。     

Technological innovation within the Spanish tax administration and data subjects' right to access: An opportunity knocks

In this paper, we analyse the data subjects' right to access their personal data in the context of the Spanish Tax Administration and the legal consequences of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation. The results show that there are still difficulties related to the scope of this right, the establishment of proper storage criteria, and in the procedures used by the data controllers to provide accurate information to the data subjects. This situation highlights the necessity to incorporate such technological innovation as metadata labelling and automatic computerised procedures to ensure an optimum management of the data subjects' access to their tax related personal information.     

浅析由WTO贸易与环境争端所引发的理论争议

有关贸易与环境争端在GATT法律体系内很难找到具体适用的规则,因此GATT曾被环保主义者称作没有规则的天堂。WTO成立后,为解决贸易与环境争端,出现了对WTO协定作普通法式解释的现象。本文认为这种解释方法符合客观要求,我国政府应顺应国际环保形势发展的总体需要,支持用普通法的方式解释WTO贸易与环境的相关法律规定。     

论经济法之法律目的

法律目的是主体在特定的法律理念的指导下,根据其对特定的法律部门和法律规范的功能需求,从可供选择的法律价值名目体系中,为特定的法律部门和法律规范所选择并设定的价值目标。部门法法律目的是其所属的法律规范的法律目的之抽象概括,它统率该部门全部法律规范之法律目的的内容、形式和结构。经济法部门之法律目的中的“正义、秩序、效益”的含义与传统民法部门、行政法部门存在显著差异,经济法应当属于独立的法律部门。     

Radical Transactionalism: Legal Consciousness,Diverse Economies,and the Sharing Economy

This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what we call ‘radical transactionalism': the creative redeployment of legal techniques and practices relating to risk management, organizational form, and the allocation of contractual and property rights in order to further the purpose of internalizing social and ecological values into the heart of economic exchange. By viewing sharing‐economy initiatives ‘beyond Airbnb and Uber’ as sites of radical transactionalism, legal building blocks of property and capital can be reimagined and reconfigured, helping to construct a shared infrastructure for the exercise of collective agency in response to disadvantage sustained by law.     

The legal profession of China in a globalized world: innovations and new challenges

ABSTRACT

The legal profession is undergoing fundamental changes; and this is the case not just in established legal markets. Based on a state-of-the-art sketch, this paper identifies and analyzes the latest innovation initiatives and alternative business models in China’s legal profession. It finds that, propelled by market demands and benefiting from technological advancements, the provision of legal services has become highly versatile today, giving rise to various alternative service providers, especially the rapidly rising online legal service portals. Because they are technically not law firms, the exclusivity requirements on lawyer ownership and legal service provision are not applicable to them. In the meantime, the competition for large corporate clients and lucrative business transactions is fierce and will continue to be so, not only within the club of big Chinese corporate law firms, but also between Chinese law firms and international law firms globally. In this course, some leading big corporate law firms in China are observed to have creatively incorporated key corporate features in running their business and compensating their partners, effectively deviating from the partnership?+?pure legal services regulation. Such market realities question the necessity and effect of the regulatory restrictions on law firm legal form and ownership structure, and call for an agenda for related research in the future.     

企业改制中资产评估的法律问题探析

我国目前资产评估法律环境有待完善,资产评估相关法律体系还没有建立起来。企业改制中资产评估主要遵守的是《国有资产评估管理办法》,不能满足资产评估业发展的需要。评估法律规范实质上是法律规范在评估中的具体应用,即评估法律规范是指由国家立法机构或国家行政机关依法制定的,是评估人员必须实施的行为规则,其最终目标是调整评估法律关系。     

The law and practice of international organizations’ interactions with personal data protection domestic regulation: At the crossroads between the international and domestic legal orders

The development and overlap of legal frameworks on personal data protection, on the one hand, by states and regional frameworks like the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and on the other hand, by International Organizations, raises fundamental questions about their coexistence and interaction, including questions concerning the interaction between the domestic and the international legal orders.This article considers how these different legal frameworks come into interaction and tension with each other, as well as how these tensions are addressed in the law and practice of International Organizations and in domestic laws.It reveals the pragmatism of a resulting approach which seeks to ensure effective protection of the fundamental right to personal data protection while respecting the need for IOs to be able to perform their mandate under international law in full independence.     

The necessity of legally compliant data management in European cloud architectures

Taking advantage of flexible resource provisions enabled by Cloud Computing, many businesses have recently migrated their IT applications and data to the Cloud, allowing them to respond to new demands and requests from customers. However, Cloud Computing also moves functions and responsibilities away from local ownership and management to a third-party provided service, and brings with it a set of associated legal issues, such as data protection, licensing, intellectual property rights and the need to comply to necessary regulation. In this paper we evaluate commonly-observed Cloud Computing use cases against the law applying to Cloud Computing to find where legal problems may arise. We derive a general architecture for Clouds and use it to illustrate common Cloud Computing usage patterns. The use cases are assessed against evaluation criteria derived from the relevant Cloud Computing law for the data processing of end-user details and materials, including roles and responsibilities necessary for legal compliance. The Data Protection Directive of the European Union has been used in this evaluation, as it is a commonly accepted and influential directive in the field of data processing legislation.     

The principle of proportionality in biometrics:Case studies from Norway

The principle of proportionality is a decisive factor in the legal review of biometric systems by the Data Protection Authorities (DPA) in EU member states. However, in the working document on biometrics the Data Protection Working Party gives little guidance on how the purpose and proportionality principle must be applied to biometrics. There remain uncertainties as to the specific criteria and factors that are used for evaluating the proportionality of processing biometric information. This sometimes leads to contradictory decisions by different national DPAs on similar biometric related issues. This paper aims to discuss the legal factors and parameters that are generally adopted to address the proportionality issue in the biometric context. After a brief analysis of the legal notion of the principle of proportionality, the paper analyses and discusses the European organisations’ interpretation of the recent Norwegian cases on biometrics. The paper then concludes with a summary of the interpretation of the proportionality principle within the biometric context and gives specific recommendations of several important factors that need to be taken into account.     

生态保护补偿制度的价值取向和立法选择

生态保护补偿制度从环境法学角度看,是通过制定合理、科学、可行的规则来激励人们的生态环境保护行为,协调其背后各方利益之间的关系,以实现保护生态环境、促进社会公平目的的制度。环境权与生存权、发展权都是人类同时追求的正当人权,但这些权利在现实中往往存在矛盾之处,有效解决环境权与生存权、发展权三者间的矛盾是生态保护补偿制度设立的根本动因,也是生态保护补偿制度在法理学意义上的价值归属。生态保护补偿制度的推进关键在立法,其立法可采取基本法与单行法并举的立法模式,尽快制定《生态保护补偿法》基本法和专门领域、专门类别的生态保护补偿单行法;立法内容上应明确生态保护补偿法律关系主体,确定生态保护补偿标准和方式,完善生态保护补偿的程序,规范生态保护补偿的监管。     

科技侦查的兴起及其法律规制

为了有效打击各种传统和新型的犯罪,需要整合各种科技手段开展侦查工作,树立科技侦查的理念或模式。在倡导侦查执法规范化的新时期,侦查机关在运用各种科技侦查手段时,需要在法治轨道内进行,尤其要注意依法保障人权,自觉接受法律监督,实现打击犯罪与保障人权的最大平衡。一言以蔽之,倡导科技侦查,既要注重提高侦查的科学化,又要重视侦查的法治化。     

Having yes,using no? About the new legal regime for biometric data

The rise of biometric data use in personal consumer objects and governmental (surveillance) applications is irreversible. This article analyses the latest attempt by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Directive (EU) 2016/680 to regulate biometric data use in the European Union. We argue that the new Regulation fails to provide clear rules and protection which is much needed out of respect of fundamental rights and freedoms by making an artificial distinction between various categories of biometric data. This distinction neglects the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and serves the interests of large (governmental) databases. While we support regulating the use and the general prohibition in the GDPR of using biometric data for identification, we regret this limited subjective and use based approach. We argue that the collection, storage and retention of biometric images in databases should be tackled (objective approach). We further argue that based on the distinctions made in the GDPR, several categories of personal data relating to physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics are made to which different regimes apply. Member States are left to adopt or modify their more specific national rules which are eagerly awaited. We contend that the complex legal framework risks posing headaches to bona fide companies deploying biometric data for multifactor authentication and that the new legal regime is not reaching its goal of finding a balance between the free movement of such data and protecting citizens. Law enforcement authorities also need clear guidance. It is questioned whether Directive (EU) 2016/680 provides this.     

析中国电子银行业务中未经授权交易的损失承担

Though China’s present multi-level legal rules have provided necessary guidelines to assumption of losses from unauthorized transactions in e-banking business, such problems as lack of cohesion among legal documents, unified processing of clients, lack of clear principles of imputation, and disconnection between legal provisions and practices have in fact constrained the in-depth development of e-banking business. Thus, correct philosophies shall be adhered to and carried out on the basis of dialectic criticism and meanwhile, the specific institutional designs shall be further improved. Li Siqi, Ph.D, is a professor of Law at Hunan University. Prof. Li, specializing in financial law, has released 60 research articles or so. He is of the view that the practicability of law has made it certain that study on law should stick to the society-to-society rule, though scholars relatively emphasize rule-styled legal research and holds that financial law is composed of public law and private law. Moreover, the financial sustainable economic development means that the tenet of financial law centers on safety, but not absolutely on profit; and the relation of financial and legal innovation should not be considered only in the framework of financial law. The propensity of interest pursuit of capital will not only unduly affect assessor’s judgment, but it should be under the legal freedom. Only being coupled with abstract theory of freedom doctrine, China’s financial legal innovation may be clear. Thus, the legal research should not only stick to conventional legal value, but extend to the financial safety.     

The Purpose of Legal Theory: Some Problems with Joseph Raz’s View

This article seeks to clarify Joseph Raz’s contention that the task of the legal theorist is to explain the nature of law, rather than the concept of law. For Raz, to explain the nature of law is to explain the necessary properties that constitute it, those which if absent law would cease to be what it is. The first issue arises regarding his ambiguous usage of the expression “necessary property”. Concurrently Raz affirms that the legal theorist has the following tasks: (a) explain the essential properties of that which the concept of law refers to, which exists independently from any concept of law; (b) explain the essential properties of law given our concept of law. After trying to dissolve the ambiguity of Raz’s argument, I conclude that based on his methodological commitments the only possible task for a legal philosopher would be conceptual analysis, understood as the task of explaining our concept of law.