也谈犯罪心理痕迹

犯罪心理痕迹主要是指犯罪分子在实施犯罪过程中和犯罪前后的心理活动。这种心理活动在一定的情境中和条件下 ,会客观反映犯罪分子心理活动的历程及个性特征。在侦查工作中 ,研究和应用犯罪心理痕迹 ,对分析犯罪分子的犯罪动机、实施犯罪活动的过程以及“刻画”犯罪分子均大有裨益。     

试论宪法程序的完善

现行宪法颁行26年来,尽管在规制改革发展的烈度与方向上作用不可抹煞,然而其在程序上的诸多缺位及操作性和张力的不足,使其在应对当下中国社会的急剧变化时遭遇困局。从宪法程序的价值属性而言,突破宪法困局的重要途径则在于宪法程序的建构与完善。为此,着眼于正当程序、修宪与选举程序等方面的完善,并进而推动宪法程序体系的整体建构与完善,已成当务之急,亦是现行宪法自我完善的．必由之路。     

公共政策过程视角下的高校扩招政策分析

高校扩招政策的存在有一定现实合理性,对高等教育和社会的发展带来了积极影响,但是近几年,高校扩招政策带来的问题越来越突出,我们从公共政策过程分析的视角对该政策进行全面的认识。     

离任董事、高级管理人员的竞业禁止义务——跳槽热中的冷思考

目前,我国尚无有关专门竞业限制的立法,且我国新《公司法》未就董事、高级管理人员离任后的竞业禁止义务作出规定。事实上,对离任董事、高级管理人员竞业禁止义务进行规制很有必要。离任董事、高级管理人员的竞业禁止义务主要体现在其与公司签订的竞业禁止协议中,主要涉及竞业禁止的内容、时间、地域、补偿以及违反竞业禁止义务后应承担的责任。竞业禁止义务是否合理主要在于考察上述事项的合理性。因此,新《公司法》应合理规定离任董事、高级管理人员的竞业禁止义务。     

对我国动产抵押登记制度的思考

中小企业融资动产抵押面临着现存的法律冲突,但从中小企业融资实践的角度来看,确实有必要规定动产抵押规则,以缓和中小企业困境。动产抵押作为一项担保制度,民法学者已经对其有充分的研究,并且物权法通过之后扩大了动产抵押的范围。建立健全完备的动产抵押登记制度有利于解决中小企业动产抵押融资困境。     

论刑法上商业秘密的构成特征

刑法上商业秘密应具备秘密性、价值性、实用性和管理性四要件,其中,秘密性暗含新颖性要求,价值性为实用性所限制。由于罪刑法定原则的限制,对这四个要件只能进行严格解释,故刑法上商业秘密的范围小于知识产权法上商业秘密的范围。     

Enhancing Title IX Due Process Standards in Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication: Considering the Roles of Distributive,Procedural, and Restorative Justice

ABSTRACT

Title IX prohibits sex discrimination—including sexual assault—in higher education. The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights’ 2011 “Dear Colleague Letter” outlines recommendations for campus sexual assault adjudication allowing a variety of procedures that fail to protect accused students’ due process rights and victims’ rights under Title IX. This article reviews two diminished due process rights in campus adjudication: cross-examination and the preponderance of the evidence standard. We use an organizational justice theoretical framework to show that limitations on due process rights reduce fair outcomes for both victims and the accused. We provide recommendations for a restorative justice approach to campus adjudication that operates within this theoretical framework to increase fair outcomes in adjudication, bolster perceptions of adjudicatory system legitimacy, and reduce campus sexual assault.     

Sliding doors in Brussels: A career path analysis of EU affairs managers

This article investigates the revolving doors phenomenon in the European Union (EU). It proposes a management approach that treats this phenomenon as a form of corporate political activity through which companies try to gain access to decision makers. By using sequence analysis to examine the career paths of almost 300 EU affairs managers based in public and private companies across 26 countries, three different ideal‐typical managers are identified: those EU affairs managers coming from EU institutions and public affairs; those who make a career through the private sector; and those who establish themselves in national political institutions. This identification confirms that EU institutions need different types of information and companies need EU affairs managers with different professional backgrounds able to provide it. Rather than observing a revolving door of EU officials into EU government affairs, what the authors term ‘sliding doors’ – namely the separation of careers, especially between the public and private sectors – is discerned.     

De-Europeanisation of Civil Society and Public Debates in Turkey: The Kurdish Question Revisited

Abstract

This study discusses the dynamics of de-Europeanisation and the changing impact of Europe on the politically mobilised civil society involved in the public debates concerning Turkey’s Kurdish question. The article first critically assesses how and in what ways the legal and constitutional reforms on the freedom of assembly required by the European Union (EU) changed the political structure in which civil society organisations (CSOs) operate in Turkey. It then examines the views of CSOs on the potential roles and limitations of the EU in the Kurdish question and the peace process which lasted between March 2013 and July 2015. It also delineates the reasons why the political context of Europeanisation is not seen as instrumental by these CSOs to framing and justifying their arguments.     

Mainstream Revolutionaries: Sinn Féin as a “Normal” Political Party?

Despite the seismic shift of Sinn Féin from being the “mouthpiece” of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to the largest nationalist force in Northern Ireland, the party continues to project its objectives within the revolutionary politics and tradition of 1916. Whilst various groups across the island of Ireland stress their loyalty to Irish independence and allegiance to their republican forefathers, 2016 also plays host to devolved assembly elections in Northern Ireland. The centenary of the Easter Rising is therefore a poignant moment to reassess republican politics, more specifically, the relationship between the armed revolutionary tradition and constitutionalism. Within the post-peace process era Sinn Féin have been accused of maintaining an autocratic culture and an intra-party framework that is more representative of a clandestine revolutionary organisation than a political party. Yet, simultaneously, Sinn Féin have not been immune to the pressures experienced by other modern political parties, bound by the laws of electoral competition and driven by office-seeking priorities. In order to explore Sinn Féin within the modern political arena, this article firstly examines the broader debate surrounding how armed groups make the transition into constitutional politics. Secondly, public opinion survey data is used to judge the basis of Sinn Féin's electoral appeal. Finally, internal party documents are used to examine party structure, intra-party democracy, and professionalisation in order to judge the extent to which Sinn Féin have completed the transition from being a “mouthpiece” to their armed counterpart, towards being a “normal” political party.