From Sancitity to Screening: Genetic Disabilities, Risk and Rhetorical Strategies in Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Conception Cases

This analysis scrutinises the rhetorical strategies used by judges in wrongful life and wrongful birth actions as evidence for the assertion that the judicial reading of public policy in such cases has undergone a significant shift which is likely to accelerate as genetic knowledge grows and health care resources shrink. The implications of the predicted move towards increased genetic testing of prospective parents are traversed in relation to feminist analyses of the impact of genetics on reproductive technology. These are viewed as forming a nexus with the current social constructions of disability and the contemporary cultural preoccupation with risk, in a context of the increasing commercial importance of genetic information. It is argued that women cannot make free and informed choices about genetic testing and pregnancy unless legal and social mechanisms which protect those choices are in place. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

跨国公司人权责任研究——人权法新发展及中国的应对机制

跨国公司作为私的行为主体，是否应当承担国际人权责任，成为尚无普遍共识的议题。在民族国家并存的国际社会结构体系内，基于人权目的，由跨国公司母国及东道国对跨国公司的人权违反行为实施防范或惩处行动，被设定为最佳模式。在构建政府主导模式的同时，我国应充分培育和发挥民间人权力量，推动跨国公司尊重和保护人权。     

跨国公司人权责任之法哲学考量与实证分析

尊重和保护人权是传统国际法主体应尽的责任。跨国公司作为私的行为主体，是否应当承担国际人权责任或言承担何种性质的国际人权责任，尚无普遍共识。在民族、国家并存的国际社会结构体系内，基于人权目的，由跨国公司母国及东道国对跨国公司的人权违反行为实施防范或惩处行动，被设定为最佳模式。我国应积极参与国际组织制定跨国公司人权责任体系的行动，表达中国立场。在构建政府主导模式的同时，我国应充分培育和发挥民间人权力量，推动跨国公司尊重和保护人权。     

妇女权利研究的思维转换

既有的妇女权利研究模式在理论上存在诸多的问题,这迫使我们不得不进行思维的转换。这种转换具体体现在以下三个方面:首先,从女性伦理视角出发,加入关怀因素,在具体事务中去理解与关心女性,从而走出传统价值本身所具有的二分性因素的对立。其次,从后现代女性主义的研究视角出发,强调和尊重人的差异性和多元性,反对平等与差异的对立,倡导传统法律话语的转变。最后,从更深层次中超越本质性与建构性的二元化对立,走向一条没有男女划分的发展道路。     

试论跨国公司的社会责任

As for international direct investment, the transnational corporations are playing a leading role in the fields of international trade, international investment and international intellectual property. In theory and reality, this authors analyze the rationale of the social responsibilities taken by transnational corporations, the main problems in the social responsibilities of transnational corporations and the legislative status, and put forward the functions of the social responsibilities of transnational corporations in promotion of the legal construction of socialist market economy, the reform of the corporate governance and the development of transnational corporations in China. Wang Chuanli, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of China University of Political Science and Law, Vice-chairman of China Society of International Economic Law, and Vice-chairman of Research Institute of WTO Law (China Law Society), also Arbitrator of China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission and Beijing Arbitration Commission. Her main publications are “The Legal Effectiveness of Foreign Economic Contracts”, “International Trade Law of Sales of Goods”, “International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” and “International Trade Law Government Control on Business”. Moreover, she has published over ten influential discourses on international economic law. In addition, her ongoing research projects include WTO Agriculture Agreement and the Rules of International Agri-products Trade, WTO and International Core labor Standards, and the Role of Judicial Independence of European Court of Justice to Promote the Integration of Europe.     

Diversity in times of austerity: documenting resistance in the academy

What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back to the hierarchy of the family, the academy likewise reduces its footprint in interdisciplinary structures and contains academic feminists back to the hierarchy of departments and disciplines. When the family and the department become powerful arbiters of cultural values, women and feminist academics by and large suffer: they either accept a diminished role or are pushed to compete in a system they recognize as antithetical to the foundational values of feminist priorities of social justice. Collaborative work to nurture diversity and interdisciplinarity does not register as individual accomplishment. This paper considers the necessity of this type of academic work to further the vision of a society committed to the collective values espoused by feminism and other areas in social justice.     

跨国公司对国家经济主权的挑战

随着全球化的发展,跨国公司作为经济全球化的载体,在给世界带来利益的同时越来越具有一定的政治行为,跨国公司控制国家经济,参与国家政治,影响国家文化,对主权国家的经济、政治、文化主权提出了挑战。面对国际大环境中日益激烈的竞争,各国联系越来越密切,跨国公司为了追求利益最大化的目标而向国家经济主权提出挑战,使得无论是东道国经济主权,还是母国经济主权都面临严峻的挑战。挑战有利有弊,跨国公司与民族国家要趋利避害,达成相互依存、相互合作的关系,共同发展。     

当代商人习惯法理论的发展述评

自20世纪90年代以来,全球化和全球公民社会的发展使商人习惯法的发展再次驶入快车道,有人认为已经进入崭新的商人习惯法阶段。饱受批评的商人习惯法的确定性因规范的编纂而增强,相应地,商人习惯法的理论研究也活跃起来。有学者提出商人习惯法从一开始就是一种独立于国家法和国际法之外的法体系,并用＂自创生＂理论加以论证。但反对者甚至从商人习惯法的历史基础入手来解构这一论点,指出中世纪商人习惯法就不是自治法而独立于其他正式法运行和发展。支持商人习惯法的学者和反对者之间展开了激烈论战,这些论战加深了人们对商人习惯法体系的认识,也使这一法律部门进一步为跨国商业界所熟悉。     

Deeper SCO Cooperation Promises Regional Peace and Development

正LEADERS of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)member states gathered on September 11 and 12 in Dushanbe,capital of Tajikistan,for a summit that is set to chart the course of the regional group’s development