Discipline, Punishment And The Homosexual In Law

This article examines the creation and legacy of the 1957 Wolfenden Report, arguing that current trends to simplistically address the Report, along with a long standing academic focus on Foucault and the nineteenth century, have disregarded the productive and revolutionary nature of its recommendations enacted in the Sexual Offences Act 1967. Contrary to the common emphasis placed on Victorian medical discourse, and the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde, it was the Wolfenden Report and the twentieth century that created the homosexual identity in law – an identity created not with a view to freedom, as is regularly assumed, but with the objective of the control of recalcitrant bodies in the forms of men's homosexual sex, and women's prostitution. Dr.Kate Gleeson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Thanks to Helen Pringle for the heads-up on Discipline and Punish. And thanks to Aleardo Zanghellini for helping me to clarify this argument.     

涉外同性婚姻法律适用问题研究

世界范围内,同性婚姻为一些国家法律认可的事实,与中国大陆对该身份领域的变化,仅存于学者呼吁应保护少数人人权的现状,则提出了在中国大陆涉外同性婚姻的法律适用问题。依据我国"涉外民事关系法律适用法"的有关规定,同性结合存在的客观事实,医学上界定其不是一种疾病的科学论断,及公平与正义、且具有全球视野的、与时俱进的现代意识,我们在法律观念与法律制度上应倾注切实可行的法律人文性。在一定的条件和法律环境下,适宜的冲突法或者直接调整方法运用于该领域,是保障人的自由权、契约身份权,维护依法设立的民事关系的稳定性,内外有别地对待与处理涉外民事身份关系的需要。     

民法的积累、选择与创新

龙卫球教授(主持人): 各位老师和同学,下午好!今天由我来做主持人,我感到有些诚惶诚恐,因为参加讲演和评论的两位学者,均具有非凡的学术能力,我恐怕自己的思想可能跟不上他们,所以作为这个主持人,能不能协调好,我是没把握的.     

劳动法治视域下劳动刑法制度创生的法理求证

以劳动法治为视域展开的分析与建构,已经成为劳动刑法研究的全新思路和有效实践,这是劳动刑法跻身于现代刑法之列、彰显其重要功能、明确其罪责模式以及揭示其本质的学术生长点的重要促动因素。在劳动法治视域下,劳动刑法研究不仅试图重新考虑刑法介入劳资关系的边界与模式,求证劳动刑法制度创生的法理基础,而且它更想让人类从一个全新视角来理解劳动刑法制度的形成、功能及罪责结构,进而认识中国劳动刑法制度创生的内在机理。     

Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

This essay articulates the contributions of Mitra Sharafi's study of Parsi legal culture to colonial legal studies. Situated at the intersection of the literature on legal pluralism and legal institutions, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947 (2014) uses a range of new legal sources and case law to recover a remarkable history of collective identity that emerged via the medium and infrastructure of law. The Parsis' active participation in colonial legal institutions not only reshaped their normative worlds but also de‐anglicized imperial law.     

传统中国法的创制与运行

中国古代的封建王朝基本都有属于自己的律典,彰显统治的正统。由于存在崇古情结等因素,统治者一般对当朝律典不予改动,而是通过立法创制变通的法律形式适应统治的实际需要,同时在司法层面上由司法官通过情理考量灵活处理案件。在这些做法的背后,传统中国的经权思想和衡平思想起着深刻的影响作用。     

创新与突破:社会转型期中国行政法治原则嬗变

行政法治原则乃是行政法之基本原则,其贯穿行政立法、行政执法及司法审判始终,并揭示行政法的根本价值属性和基本价值目标,是现代宪政法治精神的集中体现。在计划经济向市场经济过渡的社会转型期,该原则不仅充分发挥了理论指导实践之功效,且其自身内涵与价值也有了与时俱进的深刻发展。     

全球化、身份政治与法律

美国弗吉尼亚理工大学校园枪击案引发了身份对当代人和当代社会深刻影响实施的思考。身份的连带责任效应表明,拥有某种身份的人所实施的违反道德或法律的行为必然会连累到其他拥有相同身份的人。身份的搭便车效应表明,拥有某种身份的人所做出的高尚或伟大的行为可能会惠及到其他拥有相同身份的人。身份的刻板印象效应表明,社会上形成的对某一身份的刻板印象会影响拥有该身份的个人的命运和社会地位。法律上的很多制度,包括连带责任制度、结社自由制度、反歧视制度等,与身份的这些效应和影响之间存在着密切的关系。     

刑法身份的实质客观论

客观属性系刑法身份本质内涵。刑法身份由构成身份与责任身份组成。犯罪论体系影响构成身份性质,三阶层构成要件论体系是构成身份成立的理论基础。身份依附于行为人,行为人系构成要件要素,构成要件系违法行为类型,构成身份分为构成的违法、责任身份。身份法益侵害危险系违法身份本质;理论上身份非难可能性系构成的责任身份之本质,但身份不能为非难对象与且有责性本质相悖,故该身份不存在,构成身份系违法身份。责任身份影响刑罚轻重,系量刑情节,刑罚目的系其存在根据。刑法身份由违法身份与责任身份构成。     

Preserving the Identity Crisis: Autonomy,System and Sovereignty in European Law

This article uses Hans Kelsen's theory of a legalsystem to take a fresh look at European Community law,and the relationship between the European Community,its Member States, and international law. It arguesthat the basis of the Community's legal legitimacy isindeterminate, and offers a model to accommodate thatindeterminacy. This model is founded on aconstructivist approach suggested to be particularlyuseful in the EC context. Using this approach, it isargued that the concepts of system, autonomy andsovereignty in the Community can only be understoodthrough the recognition of a plurality of viewpoints,and that it is crucial, in describing the Community,to distinguish between a concept per se and thechoice to adopt that concept.     

The Silence of the Sirens

Risk is a projection of a specific temporality performed by the observer. However, this projection is doomed to impossibility because of the prohibiting problems of time, causality, subjectivity and relativity of risk. The observer is left only with a castrated projection that defies the role of science as a pedestal for the projection and institutes negation as its driving force. This projection is materialised within the Law in the form of the Precautionary Principle. Risk evokes undesired dualisms, especially the one between Idealism and Operationalism. The essay attempts to bring the two together by extrapolating the hard appearance of the legal system as seen through Luhmann’s autopoiesis and the need for critical openness of a contextualised environmental law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Judicial Review and Deliberative Democracy: A Circular Model of Law Creation and Legitimation

In this paper the author discusses the legitimation of judicial review of legislation. He argues that such a legitimation is not just a moral matter but is to be considered more generally in terms of societal acceptability, since it is based on a wide range of reasons including moral, social and pragmatic concerns. Moreover, the paper stresses that the legitimation of judicial decisions should be properly viewed in a circular perspective, so that the relationship between legislators and judges cannot be reduced to an absolute supremacy of those who are democratically elected over those who apply the law. On the contrary, the law is constantly made, adapted and developed in legal practice and legal decisions are basically legitimated through several processes of deliberative communication.