Consent behind the counter: aspiring citizens and labour control under precarious (im)migration schemes

‘Managed migration’ schemes promote mobility of labour across international borders, diversifying worksites and introducing new systems of enacting labour consent. This article examines how Canadian franchisees are recruiting Filipino migrants to staff their restaurants, facilitating employers’ access to new, flexible subjects. These workers covet their employment as pathways to Canadian citizenship. Some are unaware, however, that they are recruited under a precarious immigration scheme, one that neither directly denies nor facilitates access to legal incorporation. Instead, migrants are (transnationally) encouraged to compete in the worksite for employer-nominated citizenship, a highly productive system for engendering consent. This draws attention to new challenges ‘managed migration’ schemes pose for resisting downward pressures on work and employment conditions.     

Why outcomes matter: reclaiming distributive justice

ABSTRACT

A significant strain of libertarian thinking is hostile to the idea that distributions of wealth and/or income (economic outcomes) can be judged according to antecedently determined normative standards. The general conceptual argument can be seen in the works of F. A. Hayek and Robert Nozick, both of whom argued that when governments step in to adjust outcomes, they coercively and intentionally distort the terms on which individuals make their individual decisions. By contrast, the coercion that comes with market exchanges, in that it is beyond the intentions of market actors, is not an affront to freedom, rightly understood. The proper role of government is thus to protect these exchanges (economic procedures) and leave outcomes – whatever they are – unaltered. I argue here that this critique of distributive justice turns on a false distinction between economic procedures and economic outcomes, and that reconceptualizing this distinction allows us not only to overcome objections to outcome-based distributive justice, but also to reconsider how the legitimacy of a system of ownership is determined.     

医学临床实践教学中患者隐私权的保护

处理临床实践教学与患者隐私权保护的冲突,要求在隐私利益让渡过程中,充分体现患者的主体性,通过知情同意规则实现临床教学对患者隐私的规范化索取和利用.同时,在临床教学中,患者隐私权应有一定的限度,在特定情况下应排除隐私权的适用.     

替代医疗方案的法律解读

对于《侵权责任法》第五十五条中新出现的“替代医疗方案”一词,目前学界没有统一认识。笔者尝试对“替代医疗方案”相关的内涵、范围、告知策略以及因果关系判断等问题做一论述,以释明目前在该问题研究以及医疗过错司法鉴定时存在的思路不清、缺乏统一标准等问题。     

论医疗知情同意理论

知情同意作为一项有利于实现医疗目的的私法原则,具有其独立的利益设计和价值取向。告知说明义务的履行是实现知情同意原则的前提,而知情同意理论的要件是具体落实知情同意原则的关键,其中判断患者是否具备同意能力是知情同意的重要因素。但在适用知情同意原则时应注意识别几种例外情势。为了切实保障知情同意原则的实现,减少和防范医疗纠纷的发生,构建和谐的医患关系,有必要进一步完善我国知情同意理论体系。     

SURRENDER OF JUDGMENT AND THE CONSENT THEORY OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY

The aim of this paper is to take the first steps toward providing a refurbished consent theory of political authority, one that rests in part on a reconception of the relationship between the surrender of judgment and the authoritativeness of political institutions. On the standard view, whatever grounds political authority implies that one ought to surrender one's judgment to that of one's political institutions. On the refurbished view, it is the surrender of one's judgment – which can plausibly be considered a form of consent – that makes political institutions practically authoritative. This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

论医疗正义

法治国也必然同时是正义国,而以人权保障作为宪法最高价值的法治国,其也必须同时是以医疗人权保障为核心的医疗正义王国。关于医疗正义的研究,其范围就如同正义概念系不确定的且多样的,本文在尝试理解医疗正义概念的基础上,枚举了中国医疗正义所面临的难题,并以此作为研究范围之界定。     

Consent in escrow: opting to opt in

In this paper, we reply to Taylor''s (2015) peer commentary on consent-in-escrow. Specifically, we clarify the utility of this novel approach, the way in which it minimizes risks to participants, and how it differs from existing opt-out methods. We further explore its potential use in fields beyond disaster research.     

论警察盘查措施——比较法视野下的考察

为预防打击犯罪,各国均将盘查作为一项常规的重要职权赋予警察。然而在权力属性、运作机理、程序规则上,各国对警察盘查态度不一,进而在盘查之发动、是否使用强制力、可采取何种后续行为方面各国做法不一。通过比较美、德、日三国盘查法制,并结合我国警察盘查措施,有助于我国理论界和实务界加深对这一重要警察职权的认识。     

德国上市公司中董事会与监事会的共同作用

德国上市公司采用双轨制的公司治理模式,即董事会和监事会分别担负公司的经营管理与监督职责。同时,通过一系列权利、义务的分配,使董事会与监事会能够在公司治理中紧密合作,共同发挥作用。依照《德国股份法》及《德国上市公司治理准则》的有关规定,德国上市公司中董事会与监事会的共同作用主要体现在以下三个方面:一、董事会对监事会的报告义务;二、监事会的同意保留权;三、监事会的协商职能。