Huddle Together

The European Union (EU) and Japan signed the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement(EPA) in Tokyo on July 17,mark-ing the creation of one of the world's largest free trade blocs covering 600 million people and constituting around 30 percent of the global GDP. Leaders from both sides have high expec-tations for the EPA. European Council President Donald Tusk described it as a "light in the dark-ness" for international trade while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that the EPA "shows the unwavering political resolve of Japan and the EU to lead the world as flagbearers of free trade amid growing protectionism."     

Money,Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists’ and native communities’ conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.     

票据行为实质要件之否定

长期以来,票据法理论除强调票据行为的形式要件外,还把票据能力和意思表示作为票据行为的实质要件。但是,票据能力和意思表示若具有实质要件意义,则与票据行为的要式性、文义性、无因性、独立性等特征相矛盾,也与促进票据流通的票据法理念相冲突。从票据法及票据行为的个性考虑,票据能力欠缺和意思表示瑕疵仅能作为一种抗辩事实,而不能以此否定票据行为的效力,即票据行为上根本不存在所谓的实质要件。     

Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts: Food Safety,Rule of Law and China's Networked Public Sphere

Since the introduction of the Internet, China's networked public sphere has become a critical site in which various actors compete to shape public opinion and promote or forestall legal and political change. This paper examines how members of an online public, the Tianya Forum, conceptualized and discussed law in relation to a specific event, the 2008 Sanlu milk scandal. Whereas previous studies suggest the Chinese state effectively controls citizens' legal consciousness via propaganda, this analysis shows that the construction of legality by the Tianya public was not a top‐down process, but a complex negotiation involving multiple parties. The Chinese state had to compete with lawyers and outspoken media to frame and interpret the scandal for the Tianya public and it was not always successful in doing so. Data show further how the online public framed the food safety incident as indicative of fundamental problems rooted in China's political regime and critiqued the state's instrumental use of law.     

越南高校人才引育政策评价

越南面临经济社会发展对人才需求持续增加、高等教育规模迅速扩张、大学高层次人才短缺的形势,相继采取了国家将人才培育置于首位国策、政府出台多样化组合政策引育人才、地方结合自身需求支持人才引育、重点大学积极做出示范等举措。在实践中出现了政策制订和执行的灵活性有待提高、高校之间政策资源配置均衡性不足、政策工具欠丰富等问题。本文建议通过做好人才政策的系统规划、丰富人才引进形式、改革不合理的人才管理体制等措施优化越南高校人才引育政策。     

浅议开发商迟延办理商品房权属证书的法律责任

近年来商品房买卖合同纠纷案件的数量急剧上升，而其中又尤以开发商迟延办理权属证书引发纠纷的比例居多。此类纠纷的爆发具有群体性特征，开发商与购房者间的利益冲突尖锐．审理判决稍有疏失或法律适用未能完全说服当事人便可能引发社会秩序不稳的后果。因此。厘清实践中普遍存在的开发商迟延办理商品房权属证书的违约责任及其诉讼时效的法律依据与法学原理．为审判实践提供统一的适用标准与理论支撑无疑兼具重要的学术价值和现实意义。本文从该类纠纷所涉的基本法律概念与原理入手，通过综合比较学界的不同论点与法律、法规、司法解释的效力层级，力求清晰的体现审判实务中迟延办证违约责任追究及其诉讼时效的法律适用。     

公务员对我国行政改革的认知状况调查——基于对浙江省公务员群体的调查

调查发现公务员群体对我国的行政改革了解有限,改革在一定程度上延续着对先前制度的依赖,与理想状态还有一定的差距。公务员群体也因性别、年龄、学历和机关工作年限等不同,在相关看法上呈现出一定的内部差异。当前各级政府依然不同程度的存在经济管理强、市场监管弱、社会管理弱、行政执法弱、公共服务弱的现状;在教育、医疗和住房等基本公共服务提供方面,可能存在供给"短缺"与政府"缺位"的问题。我国政府强调行政改革的中国特色,形成了行政改革实践的"渐进性"和"两个超越"的特征。     

论马克思恩格斯对人权问题的理论批判与建构

马克思恩格斯对人权问题既有理论批判也有理论建构。由于人是劳动和社会关系总和的"二位一体",马克思恩格斯由此发现了作为人权主体的人是有实然主体与应然主体的裂变的,进而发现了人权的实然主体与应然主体在阶级社会是对立的,而只有在共产主义社会才能实现同一。因此,阶级社会人权与共产主义社会人权成为二人理论批判与建构的目标,二人在人权上的"破"与"立"由此体现出来。