The role of committee systems in post-communist legislatures: a case study of the Lithuanian Seimas

European parliamentary committee systems play an important role in organising the work of legislatures so as to assure the parliamentary leadership of its agenda. At the same time, the strategic positioning of committees in the legislative process provides opportunities for chairs to potentially undo the will of the leadership. We consider the degree to which committees in the Lithuanian legislature serve the private interests of legislators or those of the parliamentary leadership. We argue that while committees most often assist the leadership in obtaining preferred legislative outcomes, chairs on occasion have been able to change proposals or even frustrate the parliamentary leadership of governing coalitions.     

The Warsaw Stock Exchange in the period 1991–1993. Qualitative problems of its modelling

The paper focuses on the analysis of return on shares quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) in the period 1991–1993. We found that the WSE specific institutional background resulted in a large variation of return rates, their distributional assymetry and truncations which make hypotheses testing procedures about criteria of investors' choice and the price setting mechanism more complicated.     

环氧煤沥青用于埋地管道防腐的适用性分析

根据生产实践和管道防腐涂料的发展状况 ,结合埋地管道涂层的国际规范RP0 6 19的规定和该涂层的国内技术规范 ,分析了该涂层对城市埋地管道防腐工程存在的问题和弊端。     

庭审实质化改革下刑事辩护的问题与解读——以C市为样本的实证研究

增强辩护力量、增加庭审对抗性是庭审实质化改革的题中之义。庭审实质化试点在一定程度上推动了我国刑事辩护进程,但却未得到实质性跨越,不仅改革之前的问题依然存在,还滋生了新问题。这与改革设计主体中律师缺位、改革路径下权利供给不足、律师培养方式与庭审实质化脱节、刑事法律援助的有效辩护条件未修复有关。改进庭审实质化改革下的刑事辩护,短期内应完善控辩审三方主体设计机制,加强律师出庭技能培训,中远期层面则要改革法律职业培养方式,延伸律师权利保障阶段,提高法律援助的质和量。     

急性铊中毒法医学损伤程度鉴定一例

1案例资料简要案情2010年01月20日,某市公安分局刑侦支队接到受害人王某报案称：2009年12月20日与其前女友张某一起喝茶后出现恶心、呕吐、腹痛、腹泻等症状,遂至当地人民医院对症治疗,消化道症状减轻;     

公司治理和现代企业制度研究

公司治理结构是现代企业制度的核心 ,它为建立现代企业制度提供内部的结构性 (或者说制度性 )动力。但公司治理却不能载负起建立现代企业制度的全部之重 ,现代企业制度建立中面临的不是动力的缺少问题 ,而是重重的外部阻力 ,因此 ,建立现代企业制度不能单纯寄希望于完善的公司治理。对公司治理的改造应与追求中的现代企业制度相匹配 ,与所处的环境相匹配。     

法律上环境概念探析

本文考察了法律上环境概念的起源 ,确认它是现代环境保护运动、环境科学以及法学发展共同孕育的产物 ,界定了法律上环境的定义 ,探讨了环境作为法律上概念的特征 ,明确了法律上环境概念的重大意义 ,为完善环境法学提供了重要法理依据