临床法学教育与新世纪法学人才的培养--平等式对话教学方式的魅力

高等法律教育是我国教育事业的一个重要组成部分,担负着为市场经济建设与民主法制建设培养高层次专业人才的重要任务.在更新教育观念,转变培养模式,强化能力培养的教育改革的形势下,作为大学法学院应该教给学生什么?我们不可能在有限的四年时间内教给学生今后一辈子所需的各种法律知识.况且法律变化频繁,知识更新快捷.学校教师传授知识固然重要,但更重要的是教给学生分析、辨别、创造知识的能力.     

Human-centered legal tech: integrating design in legal education

As the legal profession begins in earnest to deploy digital technology in service and information delivery, greater numbers of law schools are including technology instruction in their curricula. The prospect of more lawyers with digital expertise, while a welcome development, amplifies a parallel imperative that new technology tools be designed to be responsive to evolving human needs. This paper argues that coupling technology instruction with training in human-centered design approaches offers legal educators a means of preparing lawyers not only able to generate novel technology solutions, but able to fundamentally improve legal institutions and programs through those results. The use of design pedagogies within legal education also provides educators and students with the opportunity to reimagine the law as a creative pursuit by exploring structured methods like empathy via observation, prototyping, and the embrace of failure, with learning outcomes that hold the potential to transform how lawyers approach their role. This paper concludes by detailing the insights the NuLawLab has gained in the application of design methodologies in the creation of digital legal resources, and the modifications we are adopting to the approach to produce better results for the legal sector.     

On the beginnings of foundational legal research into legal discourse

Conclusion The beginnings of foundational legal research require reflective access to the cultural dynamics which drive the social construction of legal reality. Such access is blocked by our naive immersion within commonsensical and policy-orientated attunements towards our experience of law.Since this very blockage is veiled by its own operation, a suspension of these standpoints is required. This allows us to begin to comprehend the way common sense institutes an ungrounded and superficial obviousness through a self-concealing and naively realistic interpretative schema. From here the positive character of foundational legal studies can itself emerge as the systematic interrogation of legal experience in relation to its what, how and forwhom structure. Foundational theorising is then redirected towards a more respectful and less exploitative relationship with the linguistic roots of our consciousness of law.I would like to thank Peter Goodrich for the useful comments made on the first draft of this article.     

Recent legal developments

Abstract

THE CASE of R (Pretty) v. Director of Public Prosecutions, gave the House of Lords the opportunity to comment on the issues surrounding the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to the crime of assisted suicide in the case of the terminally ill. A conservative approach was taken in relation to both this issue and indeed in relation to the possibilities of judicial control of the Law Officers of the Crown.     

Recent legal developments

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再论法律解释学

本文通过对法律解释学与概念法学、法社会学、价值法学、解释学法学、立法学关系的揭示,旨在厘清法律解释学的概念及其范围。法律解释学是一个偏重方法论的学科,属于实用法学的范畴,是一种能够在一定程度上体现实践理性的法学。法律解释学把司法作为思考问题的出发点,以建构裁判规范为己任,强调根据法律进行解释是其基本方法,但它并不否认其他法学方法融入裁判规范。当代法律解释学承认制定法、法律价值、事物的本质、公共政策、良善风俗等都可以通过发现、论证、解释、衡量进入作为裁判规范的法律,都可以作为法官法源。法律解释学是以司法方法论为核心内容的实用法学。     

1999年中国法律史学研究的回顾与展望

一、主要学术会议和学术活动 1999年度中国法律史研究的主要学术会议和学术活动是围绕“总结过去,展望未来”这一主题而展开的: (一)法律史学会1999年会在重庆召开 1999年10月15～21日,“庆祝中国法律史学会成立20周年暨1999年学术研讨会”在重庆西南政法大学召开。本次会议主要议题是回顾20年来法律史学会所取得的成就,并对未来法律史研究进行展望。此外,来自全国各地的百余名法律史学者就法律史研究的方法、日前面临的问题进行了充分,扎实的交流与讨论。...     

Sugarman's legal history

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2001年外国法制史研究的回顾与展望

在21世纪的第一年,全国外国法制史的研究即呈现出一派欣欣向荣的景象.与过去的几年相比,不仅学术交流活动更加活跃,而且学术成果也显著增加.据不完全统计,2000年11月至2001年12月,本学科共出版各类专(译)著、教材20余部,公开发表论文50余篇,收到年会论文30余篇.     

何谓法律解释--对《立法法》中设置"法律解释"一节的认识

本文以法律解释的地位作为论证的出发点,分析了在<立法法>中设置"法律解释"的不合理性,认为立法解释在本质上仍属于立法而不属于解释.根据法治的原则,权力应合理分配给不同的主体,立法机关的职责主要是向社会输入法律文本,法律解释的主体只能是司法机关.在我国应创设专门的法律解释法.     

2001年中国法律史研究的回顾与展望

2001年8月,"中国法律史学会2001年学术研讨会"在福建厦门大学召开.本次会议主要议题是探讨新世纪中国法律史学研究的发展方向,并对未来法律史研究进行展望.来自全国各地的近百名法律史学者就法律史研究的方法、目前面临的问题进行了广泛深入的交流与讨论,会议受到论文几十篇,并对上一届学会的论文评选活动进行了颁奖表彰.     

The legal file

In this essay I examine the criminal defense file. I argue that being a largely neglected “object” of the legal field, upon a close examination, the file discloses its intriguing materiality as what is predicated on the structure of the fold that allows for the objective, virtual, and narrative spheres to overlap in a specific act-object, which, with Gilles Deleuze, I call objectile. A subsequent phenomenological analysis of the legal file as objectile shows how its constitutive features help the attorney shape ordinary matters into plentiful matters, turning the file into a locally designed sign system. Once exposed, this system reveals its relations to the legal system at large, with individual activities, institutional practices, and legal procedures all being a part of a complex manifold that is law.