辉煌与印证:敦煌《文明判集残卷》研究

敦煌文献《文明判集残卷》精深宏富,弥足珍贵。它以洞烛幽微的方式,使我们在解构作为裁判载体的唐代法律文书本身的结构格式、辞章、共同特点的同时,还为我们以史为经对法律文书的递变做纵向研究支撑起无法替代的历史平台。它以其格调庄严、简约有致的风格,博大的哲学理念,鲜活的法、理、情的和谐统一,让我们在识见中华法系中的法文化、法意识和法律制度之际,惊叹中西一流智慧的殊途同归:"活法"的惊人映照!它,尤使我们在云遮雾障的历史中穿越智识的长河,于悠悠心会中提供一种久远的深度与返照。     

“不抵触原则”在地方人大立法的适用研究

地方人大立法是地方权力机关表达和实现人民意志的重要途径。从地方人大立法的宪法依据来看,地方人大立法虽有宪法表达上的不足,但宪法"不抵触"原则所体现出的宪法精神的开放性足以构成对地方人大立法的包容。地方立法存在着扩张的趋势,既有现实性的映照和需求,也有挑战和困境的并存。面对地方人大立法权扩张带来的诸多挑战,其关键在于对"不抵触"原则的理解与运用——既要把握"不抵触"原则的核心要义,也要充分考量到各具特色的地方实际。     

Campaign finance reform legislation in the United States Congress: A critique

Legislation to reform campaign funding in the United States must produce a system which reduces the potential for corruption, real or perceived, and creates greater equality of fund raising opportunity between incumbents and challengers. Bills before the 104th Congress would require bureaucratic and arbitrary systems of regulation; they would not produce workable reform. Within the existing full disclosure system,two reforms would be most effective: setting maximum dollar amounts for “soft money” contributions; and limiting fund raising by lobbyists. An even more effective system would be to “blind” contributions made to the campaign committees of individual candidates. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

小事闹大与大事化小:解读一份清代民事调解的法庭记录

本文以乾隆三十一年山东邹县的一起民事调解案件的法庭笔录为分析对象 ,仔细解读其中蕴涵的 ,同时也是被中外法律史学者广泛争论的若干清代司法实践问题 :一是帝国官僚的诉讼态度与小民百姓的诉讼策略 ;二是帝国衙门的纠纷解决手段 ;三是解决纠纷 (裁判 )的依据 ;四是清代法律的表达与实践。此外 ,本文不仅“深描”这份法庭笔录 ,而且把它置于广阔的帝制中国的政治结构、社会经济、日常生活、司法体制、诉讼理想和现实的语境当中进行考察。与此同时 ,受到“复调”理论的启发 ,本文在叙述风格上也作了一些尝试 ,以期通过这一文体的尝试彰显传统中国司法运作的复杂意蕴。     

The Missing Piece of the Lisbon Jigsaw: Is the Open Method of Coordination Effective in Relation to the European Research Area?

Abstract:  In the light of the subsidiarity principle, this article discusses the Community competence in relation to the 'European Research Area'. As such it responds directly to the question of whether the European commitment to consider research as one of the new emerging priorities of the EU, is reflected in the Member States domestic research policies. To this aim, the article outlines the Community policy to enhance European competitiveness and the goals set in the Lisbon Declaration (March 2000) and reaffirmed in the Barcelona Declaration (March 2002) shaping the European Research Area. It then goes on to investigate whether the Lisbon and Barcelona agenda targets on competitiveness are likely to be met at European level. The functioning and effectiveness of the Open Method of Co-ordination are examined as a tool to maximise synergies between national and community research and technological development activities. The article, using the Italian research policy as a case study, claims there are some inconsistencies between the Italian and the EU policies on research and technological development and transfer of best practice.     

Party Differentiation in Congress

Abstract At times, the American political parties are so close in terms of policy positions that critics denounce the lack of a “dime's worth of difference” between them. At other times, the gap between them on a left‐right dimension is huge. How can we explain this variation? We argue that parties can behave rationally as collective units, and that shifts in divergence and convergence can be explained as rational responses to changes within governmental institutions and to shifts in conditions outside. We analyze this argument using adjusted ADA scores (Groseclose, Levitt, and Snyder 1999) to compare voting score differences between the Democratic and Republican parties in Congress from 1952 to 1996. We pose specific hypotheses for potentially important factors shaping party behavior and test them with a multivariate model. Our results support the argument that the variation in the behavioral gap between the two parties in Congress can be explained as rational party responses to internal and external stimuli.     

中国法学会行政法研究会2002年年会综述

2002年7月20-21日,在草原城市海拉尔召开了中国法学会行政法研究会2002年年会.此次年会的中心议题是讨论行政程序法专家试拟稿框架稿第二稿(以下简称框架稿).年会提交的绝大多数论文都围绕框架稿展开,讨论的焦点集中在中国未来行政程序法的内容选择上.学者对未来的中国行政程序法典到底应该规定哪些内容各抒己见,有些问题分歧较大.在年会开始时,框架稿主持人应松年教授对框架稿作了简要说明,参加人肖凤城、王万华、王锡锌分别就拟定框架稿遵循的指导思想、国外经验的借鉴、对中国实践的调查向大会作了汇报.现将本次年会所讨论的议题综述如下.     

Problems of Research EN Party History in the Light of the Decisions of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU

The 22nd Congress of the CPSU called upon all personnel in the ideological field to increase their activity in the communist education of the working people of Soviet society, and in shaping their scientific world outlook on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. In the new Party Program adopted by the Congress we read: "The Party poses the objective of educating the entire population in the spirit of scientific communism so as to give the working people a thorough understanding of the course and prospects of world development, enabling them to analyze correctly events within the country and on a world scale, and to build their lives consciously on a communist pattern." (1)     

政治文明语境下人大制度建设的思考

政治文明主要包括政治意识文明、政治制度文明、政治行为文明等等,而政治制度是政治文明最主要的载体和体现,在政治文明建设中处于核心地位。这就决定了作为我国根本政治制度的人民代表大会制度,在社会主义政治文明建设中具有特别重要的作用     

The Effect of NEA Grants on the Contributions to Nonprofit Dance Companies

Affirmative action and diversity can serve as a powerful framework for helping arts management educators address the challenge of diversity in the arts. This article encourages arts management educators to use affirmative action and diversity to proactively recruit diverse students into academic degree programs.     

民初省议会失败原因概论

议会制度在中国的实验是一个重要的历史现象。省议会在中国的移植和实践未能取得成功,既有近代中国未能完成反 帝反封建任务的根本原因,也有未能处理好各种上下左右关系的操作层面的原因,十分复杂。     

“学校教育价值取向”研究的反思

学校教育价值取向研究是教育价值取向研究的进一步分化，是一种理论与实践相互关照的研究。当前的学校教育价值取向研究有不同的类型：关注社会与关注个人的分离性研究类型；对立中寻求“统一”的研究类型；试图重建的研究类型。当前研究中存在的问题主要是：前提性观念系统研究的缺乏，研究方法论的反思力度的不足，价值取向选择意识的缺乏，价值取向实现过程研究的缺乏。     

传染病防治失职罪研究

本文扼要回顾了我国防治传染病失职罪的立法演变 ,重点探讨了该罪构成特点、罪与非罪和此罪与彼罪的界限以及立法完善问题。文章指出 ,防治传染病失职罪具有侵害客体的单一性、客观行为的失职性、犯罪主体的身份性、主观心态的过失性四个要件特征。同时 ,文章认为有必要对本罪进行立法完善 ,其具体设想就是在法条罪状表述中阐明“过失”主观要件、增设甲类传染病过失危险犯、进一步明确本罪行政犯的构成特征、明确界定本罪主体范围、增设本罪的结果加重犯以及增设剥夺政治权利和罚金作为附加刑     

Evangelizing Congress: The Emergence of Evangelical Republicans and Party Polarization in Congress

The realignment of evangelical voters is well‐documented, but religion's impact within Congress is less clear. New data on home churches of members of Congress shows that the realignment of congressional evangelicals, combined with their growth and distinctly conservative legislative behavior, has significantly contributed to party polarization in Congress. Controlling for other factors, evangelicals are significantly more conservative than members of other religious traditions. This conservatism also has second‐order effects on the polarization of the House, where their more partisan proposals comprise a larger share of the roll‐call agenda when Republicans are in the majority. Moreover, evangelical Republicans in Congress differ significantly from evangelical Democrats in terms their geography, denominations, and experiences prior to Congress.     

纽约国际海事仲裁员大会述评

本文介绍了 2 0 0 1年 10月在纽约召开的第十四届国际海事仲裁员大会的主要论文及发言的要点 ,反映当今国际海事仲裁更加宽松的法律环境以及海事仲裁国际化、现代化的新发展、新趋势 ,并对中国海事仲裁的现状作了评论     

第18届国际刑法学大会第四专题西安预备会议综述

2007年10月12日-15日,第18届国际刑法学大会第四专题会议在中国西安西北政法大学召开.国际刑法学协会(AIDP)的前身是国际刑法联盟,成立于1889年,1924年更名为国际刑法学协会,是现今国际刑事法学领域最重要的学术团体之一,在国际社会具有广泛的影响,在联合国经社理事会享有咨询地位,在国际法院、前南法庭、国际刑事法院等国际司法机构中也发挥着重要的作用.     

人民代表大会制度中需要完善的若干问题

人民代表大会制度是我国的根本政治制度,在依法治国基本方略的实施中起着极其重要的基础性作用。随着社会主义市场经济的发展和政治文明建设的进展,人民代表大会制度在代表结构、代表产生方式、代表素养、某些重要的议事方式、某些重要的程序问题上都存在一些与日益发展的法治和政治文明的要求不甚适应的地方,需要进一步完善。