中国律师的职业定位

律师职业是现代法治的必备元素,独立而完善的律师阶层以保障民权、制衡公权为己任。职业化使得中国律师走向独立,这同时又是去行政化的过程。商业化因素在这一过程中起着不容忽视的正面和负面作用,应当施以公允的评价并进行一定的控制。在忠诚的前提下,律师对于委托人亦应当保持必要的独立。考量中国司法制度运行的现状,律师如何保持同公、检、法三机关的独立是一个亟待解决的问题。     

辩护律师介入刑事审判后程序的法理思考

以法院庭审为界限,庭审之前的准备程序称为刑事审判前程序,庭审之后的程序,称为刑事审判后程序。这样划分的目的,是为了更好地对辩护律师开庭前后的诉讼活动进行区分。应将辩护律师在休庭后择日宣判、一审判决送达后到上诉程序启动前以及死刑复核等阶段的诉讼活动纳入到刑事审判后程序中,作为一个整体来思考,探究这一程序中辩护律师介入的立法缺陷、具体路径以及实践操作等层面的问题。     

律师与构建和谐社会

构建和谐社会正在成为我国发展进程中的主旋律,和谐社会本质上是法治型和谐社会,律师的作用不可或缺。应从提高律师的政治地位等方面入手,充分发挥律师在构建和谐社会中的作用。     

The Japanese consumer finance market and its institutional changes since the 1980s

Abstract

We assert, in this article, that the joint transformation of public perception about households’ over-indebtedness and financial deregulation had important implications on the government decision to reform overall consumer credit between 2005 and 2010. On the one hand, the development of collective actions by groups of lawyers to defend borrowers from moneylenders’ abusive practices represents a source of change in the public opinion about over-indebted individuals in the context of long economic stagnation. A systematic press article analysis from 1977 to 2006 shows that the rising number of these collective actions since the early 1990s may have gradually increased the political salience of social issues related to the unsecure loan market. On the other hand, financial deregulation has been a source of change by allowing banks to enter the consumer finance market since the early 2000s. Banks entry into this market transformed the logic of complementarity among traditional consumer credit actors (Shinpan, credit card companies and sarakin) in a general context of legal consumers’ protection reinforcement. Thus, evolution of Japanese consumer finance's regulation is particularly relevant to illustrate the forces of institutional change and its consequences.     

WHAT FAMILY LAWYERS ARE REALLY DOING WHEN THEY NEGOTIATE

How should lawyers negotiate? This article outlines an empirical study of how lawyers rate each other in negotiation behaviors. After discussing what skills are needed for effective negotiation behavior, we then look more closely at how family lawyers in particular are negotiating. Examining some troubling data, we find that family lawyers appear to be more adversarial and less problem solving than other types of practitioners. We conclude by discussing why this might be so and what the family law bar and family law professors should be doing in the future to address this problem.     

中国法官职业化改革的立场和策略

法官职业化是中国司法改革和发展的重大主题之一,处理这样一个宏大而复杂的问题,需要在理想和现状、目标和方法方面进行艰难的立场选择和策略安排。本文选自作者近年来发表的相关文章,以探讨法律职业在法治社会中的合理定位开篇,以《法官法》与法官的职业化进程收尾,其中论及中国法官职业化改造过程中的一系列备受关注的问题。     

政府购买律师主持行政听证法律服务合同出租运作流程及其规制探索与研究

政府主导和主持行政处罚听证、行政许可听证、价格决策听证及行政立法听证,是政府应提供的法律服务之公共产品,政府通过购买法律服务,由律师主持行政听证,是公共权力让渡的合同出租,是个全新的课题,此类合同出租如何运作,其流程是什么,应怎样予以规制,都需要探索和研究.