What do Australian consumers think about current advertising standards?

The concept of community standards is the cornerstone of advertising self‐regulation in Australia. However, there is a dearth of research on current attitudes towards advertising and a virtual absence of such data in an Australian context. A questionnaire was developed to assess consumer attitudes towards advertising; respondents were 872 adults residing in New South Wales. We found high levels of concern regarding advertising standards in general and a consistent perception that advertising should not, for example, use coarse language or violent images, portray women or men as sex objects or show nudity, stereotype or make fun of groups of people, or convey messages that undermine parental authority. In relation to specific appeals and executional elements, although we identified numerous statistically significant demographic differences, there was a clear majority view as to what elements are unacceptable. That is, rather than the posited vocal ‘moral minority’, there is a consistency of views across the community on key issues of advertising standards. The finding that only a very small proportion of community‐based respondents knew how to make a complaint to the correct organisation suggests that studies utilising complainant samples are unlikely to be representative of those who are concerned about advertising. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

政治犯罪例外原则与叛逃罪的修改

政治犯罪例外原则是国际刑事司法合作中的重要原则,对政治犯罪的认定存在双重标准,《刑法修正案(八)》删除了原叛逃罪中“危害中华人民共和国国家安全的”这一条件,一方面,在国内司法实践上,并不意味着在对叛逃罪的判定上发生重大变化;另一方面将给我国的国际刑事司法合作尤其是对外逃贪官的引渡合作上,带来很大的障碍,此次对叛逃罪的修改,弊大于利.     

部门联合立法的规范化问题研究

两个或两个以上国务院部门联合立法,已经成为我国行政立法实践中的一种惯常立法形式,在实现法律、行政法规的精细化和可操作性方面发挥了重大作用。与单个部门立法相比,部门联合立法的功能主要体现为实现部门“条条”之间的立法权责整合、防止多部门职责交叉领域立法的碎片化和部门本位主义、提升部门立法的公正性与效率性、节约行政立法成本和减少部门立法冲突、为制定行政法规进行先行制度实验等诸多方面。在部门联合立法的过程中,难免会出现各种部门权限冲突与利益协调的难题。为推进部门联合立法的规范化治理,应当对部门联合立法的时机选择、事项范围、效力等级、立法主体关系以及备案审查等方面进行充分的制度分析与研究。     

The UN Security Council,normative legitimacy and the challenge of specificity

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses how the general and abstract concept of legitimacy applies to international institutions, using the United Nations Security Council as an example. We argue that the evaluation of the Security Council’s legitimacy requires considering three significant and interrelated aspects: its purpose, competences, and procedural standards. We consider two possible interpretations of the Security Council’s purpose: on the one hand, maintaining peace and security, and, on the other, ensuring broader respect for human rights. Both of these purposes are minimally morally acceptable for legitimacy. Second, we distinguish between three different competences of the UNSC: 1) the decision-making competence, 2) the quasi-legislative competence, and 3) the referral competence. On this basis, we argue that different procedural standards are required to legitimise these competences, which leads to a more differentiated understanding of the Security Council’s legitimacy. While maintaining that the membership structure of the Council is a severe problem for its legitimacy, we suggest other procedural standards that can help to improve its overall legitimacy, which include broad transparency, deliberation, and the revisability of the very terms of accountability themselves.     

人像检验鉴定探讨

当前通过人像检验认定是否为同一人的应用需求日趋增加,但由于人像检验较为复杂、主观性较强、缺少普遍接受的方法等原因,一定程度上影响了人像检验鉴定的开展。为进一步明晰人像检验鉴定相关问题,本文就人像检验鉴定关键问题进行梳理讨论,重点对国内外人像检验标准、人像特征、检验步骤和方法、检验结论等进行探讨,以期为更好地开展此项工作提供参考。     

法教义学的基本功能:从刑法学视域的思考

中国法学界系统地研究法教义学之功能的专门作品目前尚很少见。研究法教义学的功能,旨在回答法教义学的服务对象问题。若其功能不明,则必然会引发立场、方法与主体性之争,导致法教义学成为一种"无底盘的游戏"。法教义学乃是法学家针对规范适用、规范评价、规范塑造展开的理论建构与知识储备,具有司法与立法两个基本面向。其中,司法面向的法教义学具有三重功能:个案的妥当性解决、案件处理之间的协同性与理清社会发展的理想。立法面向的法教义学则是通过教义分析,明确法规范中存在的矛盾之处、有违明确性原则之处或处罚漏洞等,从而促进立法改进,确保法律良善。     

Normative behaviourism as a solution to four problems in realism and non-ideal theory

ABSTRACT

This article advances the case for ‘normative behaviourism’ – a new way of doing political philosophy that tries to turn facts about observable patterns of behaviour, as produced by different political systems, into grounds for specific political principles. This approach is applied to four distinct problems at the heart of the ideal/non-ideal theory and moralism/realism debates: (1) How to distinguish good from bad idealisations; (2) how to rank options of variable feasibility, cost, and danger; (3) how to distinguish legitimate acceptance of a given political system from acceptance based on coercion or false consciousness; and (4) how to translate abstract principles into concrete institutions. Objections against the general viability of normative behaviourism, and against the types of behaviour it tracks, are also considered.     

我国法医临床学鉴定标准现状与展望

技术标准是一个行业发展的技术支撑,也是质量控制现代化的基础性手段。我国的法医临床学经过近四十年的发展,目前已有各类规范性技术文件23部,案件量逾100万件/年。本文从标准级别、颁布部门、实施时间等方面系统复习了这些标准,可以看出:相关技术标准制订过程中大量吸纳了国际先进理念,同时也吸纳了法医临床学鉴定实践经验;目前,标准体系已初步形成。当然,目前实施的标准也存在诸多问题,如:彼此间矛盾突出、部分标准不符合技术标准的形式要件、对国际标准的研究不够深入、部分标准欠缺等等,标准化建设任务依然艰巨。未来,法医学工作者仍需加强标准与法律法规衔接的配套研究;加强国际标准跟踪、评价的研究,以形成更多的具有国际先进水平的适合我国国情的国家标准。