Juvenile Criminality And Semi-Criminality: Learning From Victorian Perceptions And Responses

This article focuses on media reportage of offensive juveniles, past and present, to elicit lessons that the twenty-first century can learn from the Victorian past in terms of diversionary responses. How to prevent vulnerable juveniles sliding into dangerous criminality is a continuing preoccupation: the issue explored in this article relates to the creation of the identity of the criminal juvenile. In utilising the concept of semi-criminality to label certain types of juvenile anti-social behaviour the Victorians avoided actual criminalisation of socially offensive but, in legal terms, minor behaviours. The reasons for and negative consequences of the abandonment of this concept by the modern age are explored, including the reconceptualisation of where responsibility for juvenile offending lies in the modern era.     

Miscarriage of Justice? Postcolonial Reflections on the ‘Trial’ of the Maharajah of Baroda, 1875

This article revisits the Baroda Incident 1875, providing a detailed examination of the Enquiry or ‹trial’ for the first time, and locating that examination in the wider socio-cultural context of the nineteenth century British Empire (especially the Raj) and the exporting of the ‹British’/English legal culture to the Empire. The implications of the establishing of British principles of justice, including the value placed upon Indian-generated evidence and testimony by the courts, are explored, in order to establish the Baroda Incident as a significant miscarriage of justice. Using historical methodologies as well as postcolonial insights, it demonstrates that the concepts of justice on which the British prided themselves were intrinsincally racialised as well as gendered, with profound modern resonances. Dr. Judith Rowbotham is a Reader, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University.     

Competitive Liberalization,Competitive Imperialism,and Intellectual Property

Aggressive pursuit of free trade agreements (FTAs) and customs unions (CUs) by major and minor trading powers alike challenges the conventional wisdom in favor of such pursuit – competitive liberalization. An equally plausible explanation for an active bilateral and regional trade agreement policy, one which effectively de-emphasizes multilateralism, may be competitive imperialism. The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights is one area in which new provisions, going beyond multilateral rules, are being negotiated and written into FTAs and CUs. Such provisions may yield insights into which characterization of bilateralism and regionalism – competitive liberalization or competitive imperialism – is more apt. Rice Distinguished Professor, The University of Kansas, School of Law, Green Hall, 1535 West 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045-7577, USA. Tel. +1-785-8649224. Fax. +1-785-8645054. www.law.ku.edu. J.D., Harvard (1989); M.Sc., Oxford (1986); M.Sc., London School of Economics (1985); A.B., Duke (1984). Marshall Scholar (1984-86). Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. Author, Modern GATT Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2005), International Trade Law: Theory and Practice (2nd ed. 2000, 3rd ed. forthcoming 2007-08), and Trade, Development, and Social Justice (Carolina Academic Press 2003). I am thankful to my Research Assistant, Mr. David R. Jackson (B.A., George Mason University, 1992; J.D. Class of 2007, University of Kansas), for his indispensable help on this work. I also am grateful to Dr. Mohammed El Said, University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), for his consistent support and friendship, and for what he has taught and continues to teach me about international trade and intellectual property.     

企业改制中资产评估的法律问题探析

我国目前资产评估法律环境有待完善,资产评估相关法律体系还没有建立起来。企业改制中资产评估主要遵守的是《国有资产评估管理办法》,不能满足资产评估业发展的需要。评估法律规范实质上是法律规范在评估中的具体应用,即评估法律规范是指由国家立法机构或国家行政机关依法制定的,是评估人员必须实施的行为规则,其最终目标是调整评估法律关系。     

域外法影响下的中国婚姻法改革

自清末以来,中国婚姻法改革经过了百年历程。在这百年的历程中,中国婚姻法的发展与变革深受欧陆法、苏联法、英美法的影响,且不同时段、不同背景的婚姻法改革体现出不同的立法动意和价值取向。探寻域外法对中国婚姻法改革的影响,不仅可以感受百余年来中国婚姻法改革的具体路径,而且可以审视中外婚姻法学思想交融所产生的立法结晶。一、欧陆法的影响欧陆法对中国婚姻法改革的影响,在百余年来的历史变迁中从未消减。但就欧陆法对中国婚姻法改革具有导向作用的影响而言,当属清末民初的婚姻法改革和南京国民政府的婚姻法改革。这一时段的婚姻法…     

网络游戏虚拟物交易规范系列研究之一——交易客体论

网络游戏产业近年来在我国迅猛发展。与此相适应,有关网络游戏虚拟物的交易与日俱增,而虚拟物交易中存在的问题越来越突出。笔者认为要对虚拟物交易的法律规范进行研究,首先要对虚拟物的涵义和财产权属性进行分析,进而对虚拟物交易进行范畴界定。     

中国共产党执政理念的转变——基于人才工作视角的观察与思考

实现社会和谐,建设美好社会,始终是人类孜孜以求的社会理想,也是包括中国共产党在内的马克思主义政党不懈追求的社会理想。从"斗争哲学"转向"和谐哲学,"中国共产党人完成了执政理念和执政哲学的根本性转变。人才工作既是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要内容,又是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要保障。笔者试从人才工作这个视角来探讨中国共产党执政理念的转变。     

我国刑事诉讼卷宗移送方式的困境及其改革出路

我国原刑事诉讼法采用的全部卷宗移送方式因易导致法官预断而致庭审流于形式,在刑事诉讼法修改时遭到废弃。新刑事诉讼法采用的部分卷宗移送主义因其改革的不彻底性又产生了种种弊端。部分学者因之提出了借鉴“起诉状一本主义”改革我国卷宗移送方式的思路。但在我国刑事诉讼改革方向尚不明确,起诉状一本主义需要的各项配套制度尚未建立的情况下,贸然实施起诉状一本主义必然导致制度内部的冲突,甚而会因制度的反作用而产生始料未及的结果。因此,暂缓实行与我国诉讼制度适应性前景无法预料的“起诉状一本主义”,结合我国国情,重塑预审程序,实现庭审法官和预审法官的职责分离,将卷宗移送划分为向预审法官的证据移送和向庭审法官的证据移送是较为合理选择。     

新情况新问题新要求——社会转型中的农村与农村基层党组织建设

构建社会主义和谐社会,重点在农村,难点也在农村.这是由农村在社会转型中的关键地位决定的.解决农村社会转型中出现的种种矛盾和问题,实现农村的和谐发展,一方面需要党和政府在发展战略上进行统筹规划,另一方面则需要进一步加强农村基层党组织建设.能否把握农村社会转型中出现的新情况新问题新要求,关系到加强农村基层党组织建设的着力点和创新方向.     

切实发挥党校干部教育培训主渠道作用——学习《干部教育培训工作条例（试行）》

干部教育培训工作是一项事关党和国家全局的重要而紧迫的战略任务。党校是干部教育培训的主渠道,党校事业的发展历来与党的事业的发展紧密相连。提高党校干部教育培训质量的关键是突出党校特色,在教育培训的内容和形式上与时俱进、开拓创新。党校最大的特色是必须坚持党校姓“党”。