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。     

浅析我国律师管理体制

我国实行的是政府集中监管体制和律师协会行业自律管理体制＂两结合＂的律师管理体制。但是,司法行政机关在律师管理中的权力过于广泛,应充分发挥律师协会的独立性,转变司法行政机关管理理念,真正实现律师协会的行业管理。     

新律师法的颁布实施对侦查工作的影响及对策

新《律师法》是在要求对《刑事诉讼法》进行修改的背景下出台的，这部法律自然不乏有亮点之处，尤其是对律师执业过程中的“三难”问题进行了有针对性的解决，在一定程度上扩大了律师的权利。新《律师法》实施后，会对侦查工作带来一定的影响和挑战，侦查机关应探索侦查模式改革的新思路，促进侦查工作适应新情况变化，在法制轨道上健康地向前发展。     

试论我国刑事审判阶段辩护律师的发言权

在刑事审判中，辩护律师的发言权对于维护被告人的合法权利，实现控、辩对抗，促进司法公正，维护社会正义均有着极为重要的作用与意义。本文在阐明了辩护律师的发言权的特定含义之后，具体陈述了辩护律师发言权的现实问题。同时，就辩护律师发言权的改进与完善提出了相应的构想。     

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.     

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。     

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。     

两大法系律师制度比较--兼论对我国律师制度的借鉴意义

本文从宏观角度对两大法系主要国家律师制度的基本内容--律师的类型、职能,律师资格的取得,律师的权利与义务,律师纪律与惩戒制度等进行比较,并在此基础上探讨了对我国律师制度的借鉴意义.     

Globalisation of Commodification: Legal Process Outsourcing and Indian Lawyers

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) refers to the contracting of legal work from regions where it is costly to perform, such as the US to areas where it can be performed at a significantly decreased cost. LPO has been made possible by the disaggregation of the legal processes into discrete units, each of which can then outsourced to cheaper service providers. Anecdotal evidence suggests a variety of benefits such as financial gains, opportunities to perform “global” work in a corporate atmosphere and acquisition of important skills and training that enhances the prestige of the host country lawyers. In India, which has played a significant role, LPO firms are viewed as important catalysts in the transformation of the country’s highly stratified legal profession based on social identities. This qualitative study, based on 38 interviews, concludes that the corporate culture was an attractive proposition for lawyers from non-elite backgrounds; however, the commodification of offshored work led to a deprofessionalisation of lawyers, reducing them to “glorified clerks.” As a result, LPO firms only provided parallel avenues for career mobility but did not destabilise the local legal market which at its core remains socially networked.