浅议法律教育——以中国法律教育中存在的问题为视角

中国正朝着法治社会的方向艰难地行进着。亚里士多德说：法治是良法得到遵守。良法需要人来制定,良法的遵守也离不开人的因素,这些人主要是法律人,“徒法不足以自行”的古训,在今天仍然是真理。法律人不是天生的,需要法律教育来培养。现代的法律教育是培养法律人的高等教育,这是世界上绝大多数国家的法律教育制度,中国作为世界的一员也应当概莫能外。     

王船山廉政思想述略

王船山在分析封建官吏腐败原因的同时,提出了“省官以清吏治,增俸以责官廉”的主张,提出反腐倡廉要抓住问题的关键,即严惩上官,主张设立谏官,建立完善的监督机制。王船山的廉政思想对于我们今天的廉政建设,仍有着深刻的启迪作用。     

浅谈律师在婚姻纠纷案件中的代理业务

律师在婚姻纠纷案件中的代理是律师接受一方当事人的委托,依照法律的规定,从维护委托人合法权益出发,以委托人的名义参与诉讼的行为。此类案件往往涉及夫妻人身关系的解除、夫妻共同财产的分割、债务清偿以及子女抚养等问题,代理律师不但要熟知法律,而且也要有一定的论辩技巧。本文从代理要求、代理准备、不同类型婚姻纠纷诉讼代理中的代理要点等方面介绍了一些办案经验和论辩技巧。     

FITTING THE FORUM TO THE FAMILY FUSS

This article analyzes advantages and disadvantages of mediation, collaborative law, and cooperative law based on the parties' capabilities, attitudes about professional services, and assessments of and preferences about the risks of various procedures. Each of these procedures has virtues and there is great value in providing clients and practitioners with a choice of procedures. Under collaborative and cooperative law, lawyers and clients agree to focus exclusively on negotiation from the outset the case, typically using a problem-solving process. Collaborative law involves a written "disqualification agreement" between all the parties and their lawyers under which lawyers are disqualified from representing parties in litigation if either party chooses to litigate. Cooperative law is similar but does not use the disqualification agreement. Because most communities do not have lawyers offering cooperative law, collaborative law groups should encourage at least some of their members to offer clients the option of cooperative law.     

The Legal Profession in the european Union – a Comparative Analysis of Four Member States

Cross-border legal practice has finally become reality in Europe mainly thanks to two factors: the legal framework offered to EC lawyers by the EC legislator and the effect of globalization on legal profession. This article focuses primarily on the success of EC/EU efforts in abolishing obstacles to the free movement of lawyers. Particular attention is drawn to the Establishment Directive, adopted in 1998, opening up new perspectives for lawyers. Secondly, it discusses how globalization has contributed to this development. In relation to the above, this article also explores the new concept of establishment stemming from the expansion of law firms in Europe. Thirdly and mainly, it considers the national positions and the difficulties in harmonizing the legal professions throughout Europe. The examples of four Member States: the UK, France, Germany and Italy demonstrate how much they differ from each other as far as the needs, expectations and rules governing the legal profession. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Lawyers, Legislation and Social Welfare

Efficiency considerations have played an increasing role in the development of legal doctrine over the last decades. Our paper investigates the consequences of the efficiency doctrine for the long run allocation of human resources between the legal profession and other professional activities. It is argued that a short run pursuit of the efficient scope of legislation may create an inefficient oversupply of lawyers under free entry into the legal profession. Self-regulation of entry into the legal profession by the bar association may provide higher aggregate welfare. Liberalization of professional entry can explain both the expansion of legislative activity and the unprecedented growth rate of the legal profession in many countries.     

The Negative Impact of Attorneys on Mediation Outcomes: A Myth or a Reality?

Mediators often do not welcome the presence of attorneys at the mediation table. Because of the apparent contradictions between both professions, many mediators believe that the presence of attorneys is prejudicial to the mediation process. Using empirical data collected from workplace mediation cases, we have explored the actual impact of the presence of attorneys. Our results indicate that the presence of an attorney does not significantly affect the outcome of a mediation, with two exceptions. First, the presence of attorneys in a mediation process reduces the parties' level of satisfaction with the mediator. Second, the presence of an attorney would appear to hinder the level of reconciliation possible between the parties.     

关于律师为振兴东北老工业基地提供法律服务的思考

在振兴东北老工业基地中 ,律师作为民主与法制建设及“振兴”的重要力量 ,应充分发挥职能作用 ,选择好服务定位 ,处理好的各种复杂的法律关系 ,努力提高执业能力 ,以适应现实需要和长远发展。     

对律师惩戒制度的思考——以行政处罚和纪律处分为视角

我国的律师惩戒制度由司法行政机关的行政处罚和律师协会的纪律处分两部分组成。在实践中,律师协会并不具有实质意义上的惩戒权,律师协会对律师的纪律处分也缺乏程序救济。通过借鉴国外律师惩戒制度的经验,赋予律师协会统一行使惩戒权并由司法行政机关进行监督,以完善我国的律师惩戒制度。     

Understanding of forensic expert reports by judges,defense lawyers and forensic professionals

Forensic scientists strongly advocate the use of likelihood ratios for expressing the diagnostic value of evidence in technical forensic reports. They call this the logically correct approach. The correct comprehension of such likelihood ratios by jurists, however, appears to be particularly problematic. The present research has empirically investigated this issue for defense lawyers and criminal judges. For comparative purposes forensic professionals, many of whom use the logically correct approach, were included in the study as well.

Using fictitious forensic reports, it was shown that proper understanding of likelihood ratios by jurists is quite poor, due mainly, but not exclusively, to the prosecutor's fallacy. Forensic professionals outperformed jurists to a large extent but made many mistakes themselves. It is further shown that participants’ self-expressed supposed level of understanding of logically correct conclusions is quite high and thus not justified by their levels of proper understanding. Suggestions for how to improve the situation are presented.