Regionalising the state: political topography of regulatory regionalism

In recent years new modes of regional governance such as peer review, policy networks, and multi-level governance, have emerged not only in the European Union but in other regions such as the Asia Pacific. This article explains the rise of these new modes of governance in terms of the framework of regulatory regionalism. It suggests that these new modes of governance constitute distinctive forms of regionalised governance within the state. Hence emerging practices of regional governance are not above the national state, but instantiated within it. Just as much as the national territorial state was consolidated over the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, the twenty-first century is likely to see the consolidation of new forms and practices of regional governance in which the ‘regional’ becomes incorporated within the political space of the state.     

电视节目模板的法律保护

电视节目模板已经在国际上形成了一个巨大的产业,但人们对它本身的认识及其法律保护问题仍存在着巨大的分歧。在各国现行的法律框架下,虽然电视节目模板的某些元素分别受到不同法律的保护,但电视节目模板作为一个整体往往不符合版权法的保护标准,也很难受到反不正当竞争法的保护。     

关于确立我国民事诉讼中间判决制度的思考

本文通过比较国外尤其是大陆法系主要国家中间判决制度的内容和特点,用法律经济分析的方法分析这种制度的利弊,探讨了确立我国中间判决制度的可行性、意义以及制度设计上的意见。     

谈巨额财产来源不明罪在司法实践中的困境与完善

为了更加有效地预防打击公务员队伍中的腐败行为,保持公务员队伍的廉洁性,我国刑法在1988年规定了巨额财产来源不明罪,作为贪污罪和受贿罪的截堵性罪名。随着司法实践的深入,这一罪名显现出很多实体和程序上的漏洞,配套制度的建设也不能及时完善,使其在司法适用上出现很多困难。在从立法技术上对该罪名加以完善的同时,加强建设和完善相关的配套制度,才能有效地预防和打击腐败、惩治贪污受贿,为社会主义的经济建设提供坚实的法律保障。     

收集公安视频教学素材的几个问题

公安视频教学素材在教学中日愈起到重要作用,近年来,电视节目日益丰富,有的很适合教学需要,成为公安视频教学素材的重要来源。在收集过程中,首先应注意收集电视节目预告,然后采用好的方法进行录制,再对之加工、保存,在使用过程中要根据著作权法进行合理使用。     

MEDIATING JUDICIAL POLICY

Despite the widespread use of mediation to resolve public policy disputes, there is little written on the mediation of judicial rule disputes. A successful mediation of a dispute over proposed court rules to govern mediation of certain family law cases involving domestic violence concerns is reviewed. The authors conclude that the mediation provided (a) a confidential venue for disputing judges to respectfully disagree with one another, (b) an opportunity for collaborative problem solving, (c) an opportunity to reduce conflict among judicial colleagues. (d) a format for dialogue with other stakeholders, and (e) greater degree of influence with regard to the outcome of the dispute. Specific recommendations to encourage the effective use of judicial policy mediation are offered.     

Iron Houses in the Tropical Heat: Decentralization Reforms in Africa and their Consequences

Abstract

Decentralization reforms introduced to Africa have not always delivered the intended outcomes. Through interaction with the broader historical, political, social and economic context, reforms seem to have engendered political consequences beyond decentralization itself. Most of the literature on decentralization and development emphasizes questions of institutional design and policy, but here we expand the focus of analysis and incorporate the harder-to-pin-down political patterns marking the workings of decentralization in Africa. Through the case-studies of Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ethiopia and Uganda we seek to connect the debates on development with the scholarly literatures on comparative federalism, comparative decentralization and local democracy. The conclusion that emerges is that no magic formula which can turn countries into peaceful, stable and prosperous democracies overnight exists. And, importing formal institutions without regard to the local historical, political, social and economic context risks leaving us with elegant but dysfunctional iron houses in the tropical heat.     

Fragmented or cohesive transnational private regulation of sustainability standards? A comparative study

Literature on private regulation recognizes the proliferation of competing regulatory organizations and approaches in various industries. Studies analyzing why fragmentation arises so far focus on single‐case studies, the exploration of single variables, or variation in types of fragmentation. This article analyzes why in certain industries and for certain issues regulatory organizations proliferate, while in others a single regulatory organization emerges which covers the entire industry. Through a comparative case study of private regulation of sustainability standards in the forestry, clothing, IT‐electronics, and chemicals industries, we show how a combination of low industrial concentration, civil society involvement in governance, and stringent standards of a first‐moving regulator offer the strongest explanation for a fragmented private regulatory field, while high industrial concentration, business‐driven governance, and lenient standards of a first‐moving regulator lead to cohesive regulation.     

以人为本:艺术设计的本质所在

从中国设计历史发展的背景看 ,无论是作为自然经济下的手工艺设计 ,还是工业化时期的工艺美术设计、工业设计 ,或者是知识经济、信息时代的现代设计 ,都是以人的需要的满足为目的的 ,最终是为人的设计而不是为物的设计 ,满足人的精神和生理两方面需要是艺术设计价值所在。     

人性：西方法治思想之源及评析

西方法治的创设基点是:人性本恶,法治也就因人性恶而产生;性恶论是西方法治主义的根基,是西方法治思想的逻辑起点,同时也是分权制衡制度设计的基石。西方法律制度的构建是在人性恶的基本假设中推导而出的;西方法治发展和制度文明从此展开。