美国联邦第九巡回区法院对于律师费请求的判决标准

对于仲裁费请求的判决或裁决标准,一直是各国司法实践中的热点问题。本文作者凭借多年积累的丰富职业经验,就美国司法实践中的这一问题做了细致具体的梳理。文章首先介绍了美国司法实践中的一般做法,之后以美国联邦地区法院第九巡回法院为例,逐条罗列了具体的判决标准并做了细致的分析。     

如何在美国为中国公司选择合适的代理律师

针对越来越多的中国公司在美国聘请代理律师时遇到的困难,本文介绍了中国公司在美国选择合适代理律师的重要性、美国复杂而多样化的律师信息报告制度以及如何针对中国传统儒家式的行事风格来选择律师的技巧。本文认为在选聘律师的过程中,中国公司应在了解美国司法环境及美国律师特色之后谨慎、有规划、有技巧的进行律师选聘,从而才能选到最合适的律师为中国公司提供最理想的服务。     

大学生宗教信仰的社会心理学分析

随着大学教育、教学活动与社会联系的日益深入,宗教文化在大学校园中也有一定程度的渗入和传播,信教的大学生人数呈上升趋势。导致大学生宗教信仰的原因既有西方宗教文化的影响等外部因素,也有大学生好奇心强、追求自我实现等内部心理因素。高校一方面应尊重大学生的宗教信仰,另一方面应采取加强对大学生的无神论教育等措施引导大学生树立科学的世界观和人生观,为社会主义建设事业培养更多的合格人才。     

評高国麟著《泰国华僑之双重身份》

《泰国华僑之双重身份》这本书,把华僑在泰国的商业組织、勢力、家庭和團体的生活、教育、国籍與政治兴趣等問題都給予詳細的研究和闡述。在該书的第一章里,高国麟博士提出了一些突出的問題,就是如何把少数的华人和泰國人民同化的問     

Sevoflurane concentrations in blood, brain, and lung after sevoflurane-induced death

Sevoflurane concentrations in blood, brain, and lung were measured in an individual apparently dying from sevoflurane inhalation. Sevoflurane is a volatile nonflammable fluorinated methyl isopropyl ether inhaled anesthetic, chemically related to desflurane and isoflurane. The incidence of abuse of sevoflurane is lower than that of other drugs of abuse possibly due to its inaccessibility to the general public and less pleasurable and addicting effects. The dead subject was an anesthetist found prone in bed holding an empty bottle of sevoflurane (Ultane). Serum, urine, and liver were screened for numerous drugs and metabolites using enzyme immunoassays and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analysis did not reveal presence of any drug, including ethanol, other than sevoflurane. Sevoflurane was determined by headspace gas chromatography and revealed concentrations of 15 microg/mL in blood and 130 mg/kg in brain and lung. Autopsy revealed pulmonary edema and frothing in the lung, pathological findings associated with death by sevoflurane or hypoxia. The cause of death was ruled as sevoflurane toxicity and the manner of death as accident.     

An accidental death due to Freon 22 (monochlorodifluoromethane) inhalation in a fishing vessel

We have firstly presented a case using post mortem corrosive method in forensic medical practice after coronary stent implantation. Occlusions, fate of side branches could be detected during the clinical diagnostic angiography, intravascular ultrasound, computed tomography; however, the forensic medical determination of cause of death, identification of complications needs a careful post-mortem investigation. The injection-corrosive method seems to be a useful assistance in the characterisation of pathomorphological changes after stent implantation. Besides the classical techniques of histology, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopic investigation we have introduced a new synthetic resin corrosion cast method. This three-dimensional corrosion cast preparation may provide new data about the actual morphological condition of the coronary vessels and a better understanding of the pathomechanisms of sudden cardiac death after percutaneous coronary intervention.     

Forensic drug intelligence: an important tool in law enforcement

Organised criminality is a great concern for national/international security. The demonstration of complex crimes is increasingly dependant on knowledge distributed within law-enforcement agencies and scientific disciplines. This separation of knowledge creates difficulties in reconstructing and prosecuting such crimes. Basic interdisciplinary research in drug intelligence combined with crime analysis, forensic intelligence, and traditional law enforcement investigation is leading to important advances in crime investigation support. Laboratory results constitute one highly dependable source of information that is both reliable and testable. Their operational use can support investigation and even provide undetected connections or organisation of structure. The foremost difficulties encountered by drug analysts are not principally of a chemical or analytical nature, but methodologies to extract parameters or features that are deemed to be crucial for handling and contextualising drug profiling data. An organised memory has been developed in order to provide accurate, timely, useful and meaningful information for linking spatially and temporally distinct events on a national and international level (including cross-border phenomena). Literature has already pointed out that forensic case data are amenable for use in an intelligence perspective if data and knowledge of specialised actors are appropriately organised, shared and processed. As a particular form of forensic case data, the authors' research focuses on parameters obtained through the systematic physical and chemical profiling of samples of illicit drugs. The procedure is used to infer and characterise links between samples that originate from the same and different seizures. The discussion will not, however, focus on how samples are actually analysed and compared as substantial literature on this topic already exists. Rather, attention is primarily drawn to an active and close collaboration between magistrates, forensic scientists, law enforcement investigators and crime analysts from different institutions with the aim of generating, using and validating relevant profiling case data as integral part of investigative and crime analysis processes. Original advances are highlighted through experiences from criminal investigations of offences related to the unlawful importation, exportation, supply and possession of illicit drugs.