Reforming war's administrative rubble in Lebanon

After 17 years of civil strife in Lebanon, an Office of Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR) was established in 1993 to plan for short‐term rehabilitation and long‐term institutional development within the public sector. Since external technical assistance to public administration was delivered through OMSAR, its role as a host agency for international aid donors' efforts in reform policy‐making and implementation is critical. The article discusses OMSAR's approach to channelling foreign aid for administrative development in post‐war Lebanon. Lessons from the Lebanese experience in post‐war institutional development may interest countries emerging from conflicts and trying to rebuild administrative infrastructure. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The mechanism of death in whole-body overheating

Data on anatomo-clinical analysis of 36 cases of death due to general overheating of a body are presented. On the basis of these data can be stated that in most cases the effect of high ambient temperature combined with great physical exercise and prolonged exposure to the caused death within short (up to 3 days) periods of time as a result of cessation of CNS functioning. Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure. Morphologic changes were unspecific.     

48例伪称他伤案例的分析

本文作者分析了48例伪称他伤的案例。提出自伤与自杀伤在概念上的区别以及损伤特点的差异。讨论了伪称他伤案例的规律及法医学鉴定要点。     

论全球化与国家的经济主权

全球化进程使国家的经济主权特别是国家处置本国自然资源的权力、国家的经济立法权以及国家在经济领域内的管辖权受到很大的限制和削弱 ;正确认识全球化对国家经济主权的影响并采取积极的应对措施 ,不仅会使发达国家得到好处 ,也会使发展中国家从中受益     

论担保物权的竞合——建构一种解决之道

担保物权的竞合,变称职物的提担保竞合,是指在同一标准上存在不同种类的担保物权,此时应以何类担保物权的效力优先的问题.然而对于这一问题,在《担保法》及其他法律中均没有作出规定.与此同时反观我国民法学界,对担保物权竞争合的研究几乎处于空白状态.司法实务中的法律缺席以及理论研究上的止步,于是以此为契机,我想通过本文写作以及对担保物权竞争合存在现象的研究,希冀能在理论上建构出一条最终解决之道.     

完善证人制度的价值目标及模式选择刍议

我国迄今没有一部完整的证据法 ,有关证据的立法体现在三部诉讼法中 ,没有形成一个完整的证人制度 ,影响了当事人运用这种独特证据查明事实 ,佐证诉讼主张。我们应当在深刻全面认识证人诉讼中的地位与作用的基础上 ,确立一套规范而完整的证人制度 ,确保证人能到庭如实作证 ,以最大限度地实现司法公正。     

Endogenous changes in the exchange rate regime: A bureaucratic incentive model

Public choice submits that legal changes can be endogenous in such a way that they are manipulated by bureaucrats who want to maximize rents from transactions with various interest groups. This paper takes the change in exchange rate regimes to empirically examine the premise. It offers a two-stage method, in which we first show that the exchange rate is influenced by interest group pressures, and subsequently that the 1990 market average regime (MAR), as a phase-in policy in Korea, was introduced mainly to serve bureaucratic incentives. This method is expected to be useful to a host of countries for various studies attempting to test a possible existence of bureaucratic or other hidden motivations behind any “isolated'' event of policy change.