论我国民事诉讼第三审制度之构建

我国两审终审的民事审级制度,由于欠缺对审级制度功能理论和相关民事诉讼基本原理的考虑,在司法实践中产生了种种弊端,已不适应形势发展的需要。因此,有必要借鉴国外先进立法经验,建构第三审程序。在第三审程序中,应当只审理法律问题,允许当事人以协议方式越级向第三审法院上诉,并对具有示范意义的案件实行特别上诉、最高法院提审和上诉许可制度。出于审理范围恒定原则,在第三审程序中,不得提起反诉、附带上诉。     

Authoritarianism,socioethnic diversity and political participation across countries

It is argued in this article that threatening stimuli affect political participation levels among non‐authoritarians more than among authoritarians. Focusing on socioethnic diversity, which is known to be particularly threatening to authoritarians and to relate negatively to political participation in the general public, analyses of individual‐ and macro‐level data from 53 countries is presented which supports this thesis. Participation levels among authoritarians are largely static, regardless of a country's level of socioethnic heterogeneity, while non‐authoritarians participate considerably less in countries with relatively high levels of socioethnic heterogeneity. This suggests that authoritarians participate to a proportionately greater degree in the most diverse countries.     

China’s Response to the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa

This article examines the Chinese response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, first surveying Chinese interests in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Many Chinese workers have been evacuated and projects postponed. For the first time, China has extended humanitarian aid to countries facing a public health emergency. China is under pressure to ‘do something’ but faces its own developmental challenges as well as problems of logistics. Chinese knowledge of Africa is still relatively weak and uninformed. Although China’s assistance dwarves that from the other BRICS, the Ebola crisis has revealed problems in Sino-African relations, not least the gap between rhetoric and reality.     

Identification of Missing Norwegian World War II Soldiers,in Karelia Russia

This article presents the multidisciplinary effort in trying to identify the skeletal remains of 100 Norwegian soldiers serving in the German army, killed in Karelia Russia in 1944, from the recovery of the remains through the final identification using DNA. Of the 150 bone samples sent for DNA testing, 93 DNA profiles were obtained relating to 57 unique individuals. The relatives could not be directly contacted as the soldiers were considered as traitors to Norway; therefore, only 45 reference samples, relating to 42 cases of the missing, were donated. DNA matches for 14 soldiers and 12 additional body part re‐associations for these individuals were found. Another 24 bone samples were re‐associated with 16 individuals, but no familial match was found. More than six decades after the end of WWII, DNA analysis can significantly contribute to the identification of the remains.     

WTO与刑事侦查改革

加入WTO后 ,司法独立对我国刑事侦查行政化的冲击 ,国际刑事司法准则与我国刑事侦查的矛盾 ,对我国现行刑事侦查制度提出了挑战 ,保障人权理念对侦查人员的素质提出了更高的要求。为适应形势发展需要 ,我国现行刑事侦查制度应在现有体制下进行改革 ,实行刑事侦查司法化 ,刑事侦查人员精英化 ,充分体现保障人权的理念     

我国民事审级制度之重构与优化

审级制度是一项基本的民事诉讼制度 ,其基本功能有二 :即纠正错误判决和统一法律见解。我国四级二审终审的民事审级制度的建构 ,由于欠缺审级制度功能论和相关民事诉讼基本原理的考虑 ,造成了司法实践中的种种弊端和制度体系上的不和谐。因此 ,有必要借鉴国外的立法经验 ,并遵循审级制度的基本原理 ,重构我国四级三审终审的民事审级制度 ,在重构的基础上优化具体程序的设计。     

网络组党结社与国家政治安全

网络组党结社是信息化时代秘密结社的一种新型组织形态，具有政治诉求多元、组织发展隐秘、活动方式多变以及成员结构复杂等特性，在一定程度上对国家政治安全有着潜在的威胁和现实危害。分析其活动方式，把握其发展趋势，在此基础上将网络组党结社活动控制在有关职能部门的视线范围内，并依法打击其非法活动，对于维护社会政治稳定和国内安全具有较强的理论意义与现实意义。     

现代商事信托的组织法基础

从民事信托到商事信托,信托关系的本质完成了从财产无偿移转的手段到企业组织架构的变革。商事信托作为组织法,其具有商事组织的典型共性,而且在制度设计和受托人信义义务的标准上,商事信托也与商事公司制度近年来出现了明显的趋同。我国现行信托立法无论是在受托人承担有限责任的规定上,还是在信托投资的规模上以及在受托人的资格取得上,都离成熟的组织法的要求还都相距甚远。     

建构和谐社会的第三种力量

和谐社会的建构是一个不断发展的过程,需要积聚各种力量融合促进,不仅从形式上优化,更要从实质上完善.随着经济的高速发展,社会国家化与国家社会化趋势日渐明显,传统社会主体及其运行对建构和谐社会的动力不足,呼唤第三种力量的产生,社会中间层生成和发展,正成为从内力积聚到外延建构和谐社会的全新动力.     

关于儒学价值观普世性问题的思考

即使是在“全球化”的当今,作为中国文化传统核心的儒学,仍有其普世性价值。