房贷险存废论

住房金融巨大风险对强化房贷保险作用的现实需要,与旷日已久的所谓"强制保险"的法律困惑,形成了房贷险存与废的博弈。保险金物上代位机制使抵押物保险具有了双重保障机理,决定了抵押权人干预抵押物保险合同的法理依据及其权利界限,银行放弃房贷险只是一种弃权行为;房贷履约保证保险本质上具有人身保险属性,其设定的目的是取代住房抵押担保,应与住房财产险分离而免于银行的强制;房贷险本身的设计缺陷和业务不规范行为必须全面矫正;须尽快加强我国的消费信贷立法。     

加拿大公众法律教育研究

加拿大公众法律教育,实际上类似我国的普法宣传或者法制宣传教育。笔者于2010年3月至2010年9月,作为中加访问学者交换项目的访问学者,获得加拿大政府资助,到加拿大阿尔伯塔大学,就公众法律教育专题,进行了为期半年的学术研究及学术交流。在加期间,笔者多次访问有关政府机构和从事公众法律教育的民间组织,并对专门从事公众法律教育的民间组织阿尔伯塔法律资源中心进行了较长一个时期的个案观察。     

Casework,issues and voting in state legislative elections: a district analysis

Congressional research has addressed questions regarding the electoral consequences of service and policy responsiveness, as well as whether service responsiveness eliminates the need for policy responsiveness. However, less is known about the criteria by which constituents reward their state representatives. Part of the problem with resolving these questions at the state level has been the absence of data, since individual-level data on state legislative districts are hard to find and are unlikely to combine measures of both kinds of responsiveness. This study utilises data gathered in a particular state legislator's district (both data on actual member–constituent contacts and survey data) to discern more explicitly whether ombudsman service and constituent issue proximity to the incumbent affects vote choice. Our findings support the proposition that like their counterparts in Congress, state representatives prosper when paying attention to both service and policy responsiveness; however, we find convincing evidence that casework enables state legislators to gain support from constituents who otherwise would not vote for them.     

中、日、英三国医师法的理念及立法表现 —兼议行政法的管理、控权和平衡理论

任何国家的医师法,其基本内容都是规定国家在何种条件下授予公民医师资格,在何种情形下准予取得医师资格者注册行医,以及对医师执业应如何进行管理,概莫能外。因此,医师法属行政法范畴,着重调整代表国家的行政机关与医师的管理和监督关系。本文通过介绍、分析中、日、英三国医师法立法上的具大差异及其法理背景,旨在使读者能从现化行政法的理念层次上掌握我国《执业医师法》的精神和内容,并能从行政法所拥有的管理、控权和平衡多种功能和价值的角度,思考如何完善我国的医师法律制度,进而发展我国的行政法理论。     

Political structure,legislative process,and corruption: comparing Taiwan and South Korea

Taiwan and South Korea have the same constitutional system, approximate economic scale, and similar cultural backgrounds, yet they differ in degree of corruption. What political structures and legislative processes cause this outcome is the major question posed in this paper. The political structure in South Korea is a centralization-of-power model, while that in Taiwan is a separation-of-powers model. This paper proposes that Taiwan and South Korea have different types of corruption and different political structures, and the legislative process in South Korea is more compromising than that in Taiwan. These factors contribute to greater corruption in South Korea than in Taiwan. This study clarifies how particular institutional dynamics reduce or enhance the prospects for democratic governance and help to better understand how political structure and legislative process channel different types of corruption into different degrees of corruption. Studies on the relationship between constitutional structure and corruption have concluded that parliamentarism can help reduce corruption more than presidentialism. This thesis argues that a country with centralized power tends to be less corrupt than a country with separation of powers. If this argument and the rationale behind it hold true for countries with both parliamentary and presidential systems, we can expect that semi-presidential countries with a centralized system are less corrupt than those with a decentralized system, all else being equal. However, by comparing these two semi-presidential countries, we find that South Korea, with its centralized model, was more corrupt than Taiwan, with its decentralized model. This comparative case study provides a counterargument to the conventional wisdom of constitutional structure and governance.     

中、日、英三国医师法的理念及立法表现 —兼议行政法的管理、控权和平衡理论

任何国家的医师法,其基本内容都是规定国家在何种条件下授予公民医师资格,在何种情形下准予取得医师资格者注册行医,以及对医师执业应如何进行管理,概莫能外。因此,医师法属行政法范畴,着重调整代表国家的行政机关与医师的管理和监督关系。本文通过介绍、分析中、日、英三国医师法立法上的具大差异及其法理背景,旨在使读者能从现化行政法的理念层次上掌握我国《执业医师法》的精神和内容,并能从行政法所拥有的管理、控权和平衡多种功能和价值的角度,思考如何完善我国的医师法律制度,进而发展我国的行政法理论。     

Re-calibrating,re-visioning and re-thinking self-regulation in Canada

Several jurisdictions, most notably Australia and the United Kingdom, have recently abandoned a regime of self-regulation of the legal profession. In this paper the authors review recent developments in Canada to argue that there has been a significant increase in the regulatory vigour of law societies and suggest that, at least in part, this is driven by the fear of losing self-regulation. In the latter part of the paper the authors then attempt to assess whether defensive self-regulation is working and propose an evaluative scheme and series of metrics by which to assess effectiveness and efficiency of a regulatory regime. They conclude by suggesting an innovative institutional mechanism that would have the legitimacy and capability to perform such an assessment.     

国际海事委员会和国际海事组织的立法工作比较研究

国际海事委员会和国际海事组织自成立起一直致力于统一各国海商法的工作。在简要介绍二者的组织结构和有关活动的基础上,对其相关领域的国际立法进行了详细的比较分析,指出具有“私法性”特征的国际海事委员会规则和具有“公法性”特征的国际海事组织公约的海事立法的国际趋同化特征将会进一步增强。     

Crime,deportation and the regulation of immigrants in Canada

Criminality is now one of the most frequently used provisions for deporting non-citizens from Canada. Individuals who are convicted of crimes outlined in current immigration policies can find themselves subject to deportation proceedings after they have served their sentences unless they are eligible to make an appeal and can do so successfully. This paper examines 177 reported immigration appeal hearings in Canada involving non-citizens who are ordered deported on the basis of criminality. Using documentary analysis along with basic statistics to analyze the appeal hearing decisions, I demonstrate how gender and racial ideologies shape the outcome of these decisions. Theories of moral regulation, social control and governmentality are employed to develop an understanding of the state's treatment of immigrants. That a significant number of immigrants in this study were not deported, but were granted stays with strict conditions highlights how deportation hearings are one mechanism for differentiating between ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ immigrants. This study illustrates how, through the use of racial and gender ideologies, deportation practices are as much about differential exclusion as they are about enforced assimilation. Concerns around criminality rationalizes the ongoing regulation and surveillance of immigrants and the threat of deportation ensures their compliance.This research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC Grant No. 31-632203). An earlier version of this paper was presented at the British Society of Criminology Annual Meetings in Bangor, Wales, July 2003 and at the Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meetings in Halifax, Canada, June 2003.     

State legislative staff influence in health policy making

State legislative staff may influence health policy by gathering intelligence, setting the agenda, and shaping the legislative proposals. But they may also be stymied in their roles by such institutional constraints as hiring practices and by turnover in committee leadership in the legislature. The intervening variable of trust between legislators and their support staff is also key to understanding influence and helps explain how staff-legislator relationships play an important role in designing state health policy. This study of legislative fiscal and health policy committee staff uses data from interviews with key actors in five states to model the factors important in explaining variation in the influence of committee staff on health policy.