对当前公安基层工作不落实问题的思考

当前公安基层工作中存在不落实的问题。要抓好公安基层的落实工作,就必须端正工作指导思想,在求真务实上下功夫;就必须转变工作作风,在真抓实干上下功夫;就必须解决突出问题,在破解难题上下功夫。     

封堵“高考移民”事件的行政法思考

“高考移民”现象由来已久 ,引发许多社会问题。2 0 0 3年高考前夕 ,各地纷纷出台封堵“高考移民”的政策 ,造成很大社会影响 ,社会各界人士发表的看法仅从教育政策的视角出发。应契合建设法治国家的需要出发 ,从行政法角度对这一问题进行深层法理思考 ,并探讨此次事件所揭示出的我国行政法治上存在的诸多问题。     

违背患者意愿的救治行为法律分析

广外孕妇拒签事件反映了医疗服务实践中应加强医务人员医疗告知义务,医患互信缺失以及法律规定缺乏弹性等问题,本文就以上问题进行分析并针对以上问题提出实务处理和法律规定中需要改进的方面。     

环境损害赔偿与公益信托——以福岛核事故为中心

福岛核辐射事故造成包括森林、海洋、湖泊、地下水等的环境损害,其中,有些是私人受到了损害,有些是社会受到了损害。这些损害应该如何赔偿?特别是自然资源价值的赔偿是问题的难点所在,比如自然资源之森林,交换价值的赔偿应归属于所有人,其非使用价值则应归属于公众。因此,非使用价值则应赔偿给公众。但是,如何归属呢?对此,宜采用公益信托理念,由国家或地方政府作为受托人,为了社会整体享有利益,请求赔偿。而赔偿方式也是一个重要问题,一般有恢复原状、金钱赔偿两种,一般计算出的环境价值减少部分低于恢复原状的费用,但如果能准确计算出全部自然资源价值,环境价值减少部分与恢复原状的费用基本上相同。因此,公益受托人可以选择任何一种适于该情形的赔偿。     

美国《病人保护和可负担医疗法》的主要内容及启示

美国《病人保护和可负担医疗法》围绕扩大保险覆盖面、强化公共项目、提升医疗质量和效率、提高项目透明和廉正度、加强医疗服务人力资源建设和合理化资金投入等对美国医疗体系进行了全面而深入的变革。美国＂低成本、全覆盖＂的医疗改革可以为中国提供有益借鉴。     

Contractual Interpretation,Registered Documents and Third Party Effects

This article considers whether extrinsic material should be available in interpreting registered documents when these may be contractual in nature or relate to contractual agreements. Many registers, for example the current scheme for recording land title, are intended to facilitate the reliance of third parties on their content, an objective that suggests that extrinsic material should be excluded. Such an approach, however, could itself cause unfairness and conflicts with the way that contractual documents are normally interpreted. Exploring this question leads us to consider the contextual approach to contractual interpretation generally and whether it should take account of the contemplated effects of contractual language on third parties. After concluding in the affirmative, we then ask whether this is sufficient as an approach to interpreting contractual documents entered into a register.     

Mobile entrepreneurs in post-Soviet Central Asia

In this paper I present an analysis of a mobile entrepreneur and his transnational economic activities in post-Soviet space. I argue that the space of informal economic activities of mobile entrepreneurs are structured by trust-networks in the sense Tilly (2005) uses it. In this context the concept of tirikchilik (an Uzbek term for ‘muddling through’ or survival) which defines the space of informal economic activities is important to decipher. Tirikchilik unifies various economic activities which vary from trade, service delivery, middleman services, administration and any kind of activity that generates some cash.     

Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust: The Objective Justification Test for Age Discrimination

This note discusses the limits to the defence of objective justification when applied to direct age discrimination, specifically with regard to situations where the employer attempts to rely on cost‐saving as a legitimate aim. The author examines the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (formerly the European Court of Justice, ECJ) on which this case relies, and considers whether the defence has been interpreted too widely, opening up the possibility of cost‐saving as a defence to discrimination on the grounds of this particular protected characteristic. The note concludes that, while cost‐saving cannot be the sole justification for less favourable treatment by employers, it may nevertheless form part of an overall legitimate aim when coupled with additional factors.     

Can We Protect How We Do What We Do? A Consideration of Business Method Patents in Australia and Europe

In the long history of monopolies, business method patents area novel and recent edition. In the Digital Age, where time ismoney and speed is everything, innovative methods for undertakingbusiness are as important to a business as the products or servicesit provides to its clients. In recent years several reviews,conducted in both Australia and internationally,⁴ have questionedthe appropriateness of patenting business methods. This paperreviews the availability of business method patents in Australiain light of the 2006 decision of the Full Court of the FederalCourt in Grant v Commissioner of Patents,⁵ which confirmed theneed in Australia for a ‘useful product’ to issuefrom the working of a method (business or otherwise) in orderfor the method to be patentable. This paper will review argumentsboth criticising and defending business method patents and considerwhether business methods warrant special treatment.     

信托识别制度初探——兼论完善我国信托识别制度

信托识别产生的原因在于各国在相继采用信托制度的同时,对信托定义模式、信托当事人的范围、信托财产所有权的界定、信托管理行为的性质等方面存在认识上的差异。为求同存异,统一认识,信托识别应运而生,其对象包括冲突规范的"范围"和"系属"两部分内容,依据在于各国的国内法。而我国信托法由于欠缺识别制度,为该法的国际接轨带来了障碍。