“Cloud bursts”: Emerging trends in contracting for Cloud services

Contracting for cloud based services might be said to be in its relative infancy, but such contracts as have been promulgated by the major providers have uniformly tended to be extremely restrictive in terms of the rights and means of recourse offered to customers. As contract values and service complexity “in the cloud” increase, however, more and more of such contracts are subject to review and challenge. This article accordingly considers some of the key points of common contention, and offers thoughts as to the direction of travel for such contracts in the months to come.     

揭开雇主“替代责任”的面纱——兼论《侵权责任法》第34条之解释论基础

我国民法学界和立法机关的主流观点认为,雇主责任的性质是替代责任,这种看法并不合理。替代责任原理及规则渊源于英美普通法,其立基于近代手工业社会,反映了当时较为简单的雇佣关系。到了现代工业风险社会,随着企业规模的扩大和雇佣关系的复杂化,这一原理及规则不能为遭受企业活动侵害的受害人提供充分的法律保护,也不能为雇主积极履行义务提供法律上的激励机制。因此,使用替代责任原理并不能对《侵权责任法》第34条作出合理、妥当的解释。目前,英美法上的"企业责任理论"和德国法上的"组织过错理论"反映了比较法上雇主责任领域的最新发展趋势。     

试论亲属免证权及其制度构建——以新刑诉法的修改为视角

亲属免证权,是指在刑事诉讼中,具有亲属关系的证人,基于其特定的亲属身份,依法享有的拒绝承担证明责任的权利,或者免除其作证义务的权利。无论是英美法系国家还是大陆法系国家,多对亲属免证权作出相关规定,我国香港、澳门以及台湾地区也对刑诉中亲属免证权进行了规定。亲属免证权的制度构建是国家进行多种利益权衡的必然选择,体现了国家对家庭关系维系之重视与刑法的谦抑制品格,彰显了法律的人性化。我国刑事诉讼法从1979年立法至今经过了1996年和2012年两次较大的修订,均未对亲属免证制度进行明确、规定,2012年修改后的刑诉法在明确规定证人强制出庭制度的同时,赋予了被追诉人的配偶、父母、子女不被强制出庭的权利,在一定程度上带有了免证特权的色彩,却并非真正意义上的亲属免证特权。     

Assessing sheriff’s office emergency and disaster website communications

Sheriff’s offices are an integral component of the public health emergency preparedness and response system in the USA. During a public health emergency or disaster, sheriff’s offices need to communicate with people affected by the event. Sheriff’s office websites are logical sources for information about disaster preparedness and response efforts. No prior research evaluates emergency preparedness and response resources available through sheriff’s office websites. The current research is a national study of sheriff’s office websites to assess the availability of information relating to emergency preparedness and response. A content analysis of 2590 sheriff’s office website homepages was conducted to determine the presence or absence of nine communications elements important to people seeking information during an emergency or disaster. We found that 71.9% of sheriff’s office website homepages include links to agency services and programs, but only 6.5% provide links to emergency preparedness information. The findings of the study are useful to assess emergency preparedness and the amount of response information available, as well as to identify opportunities to improve sheriff’s office website homepages.     

马克思文化民生思想的内在逻辑及当下启示

追寻和挖掘马克思文化民生思想的内在逻辑,可以发现:人的需要是马克思文化民生思想的逻辑起点,而实践的观点则是其逻辑支点,人的全面而自由发展是马克思文化民生思想的最终归宿。其内在逻辑对于当下的文化建设与民生发展具有重要的启示:在文化建设与民生改革发展中,要以敏锐捕捉和合理满足人民的文化需求为前提;以尊重人民的实践产物、保障人民的文化权利为重点,以确保人民持续性文化受益,促进其走向自由、全面和可持续发展为目标。     

党的群众路线在国家治理中的作用机制与实现路径

在执政的历史条件下,群众路线蕴含着党在国家治理过程中所赋予的独有的政治内涵。党的群众路线在国家治理中的作用机制主要在于：执政资源的汲取机制、社会资源的聚合机制、群众利益的平衡机制、群众路线的政策机制。党的群众路线在国家治理中的实现路径主要在于：赋予国家治理的时代内涵、消解国家治理的体制障碍、拓展国家治理的社会空间。     

抗日民族统一战线的形成过程探析

党的抗日民族统一战线政策是在中央红军长征胜利后不久形成的,但这个策略的形成经过了一个较长的过程,从长征前至长征胜利结束,经历了主要是反蒋其次是抗日、抗日与反蒋并举、抗日为主反蒋为次到最终与国民党建立抗日民族统一战线的过程。在日本对中国的入侵过程中,蒋介石的"攘外必先安内"的政策与共产党的抗日政策形成了鲜明的对比,充分体现了共产党的民族担当和战略眼光。     

从生活方式入手提高辅导员工作科学化水平

立德树人是教育的根本任务,高校辅导员是大学生思想政治教育的骨干力量,是大学生的引路人和指导者。现代大学生出现了思想多元化、生活市场化、学习功利化、休闲网络化等新的生活方式特点,这给主要负责学生日常管理的辅导员工作带来了新的挑战和机遇。从大学生生活方式入手是提高高校辅导员工作科学化水平的有效途径,是提高思想政治教育水平的有效手段。     

Private association and public brand: the dualistic conception of political parties in the common law world

This paper examines the legal conception of political parties. It does so by unearthing the history and ontology of the common law relating to political parties in international perspective. The flexibility of the unincorporated association, in which parties are understood through the private law of contract as networks of internal rules or agreements, rather than as legal entities, has proven to be a mask. In the common law’s imagination, the ideal party is a ground-up organization animated by its membership. But the law mandates no such thing, and in its statutory and constitutional conception intra-party democracy may be sublimated as parties need be no more than an electoral persona or brand.     

刍议高校参与式教学的目标与实施路径

参与式教学是高校实施素质教育的重要手段,也是推进课堂教学改革的重要思路。与强调教师中心地位的传统教学模式不同,参与式教学重视学生在教学活动中的主体性。它以学生的能力培养为根本目标,旨在促进学生的全面均衡发展。参与式教学意味着课堂教学活动中师生关系的根本变革,要求教师进行深刻的角色调整,不再总是充当"绝对权威",而是以更为平等和多样化的身份与学生互动,尊重并激励学生的参与。参与式教学包括课堂讨论、分组合作等多种具体方法,但这些设计都应以学生的学习活动为中心,鼓励学生的参与意愿,培养他们的探究精神和创造能力。