论法典是国际私法形式价值的最佳载体

本文首先从一般意义上界定了法的形式价值,即法本身所应具有的那些值得肯定或"好"的品质.在此基础上利用比较的、历史的研究方法,重点论述了国际私法形式价值的内涵及历史变迁,作者认为法典应是最能体现国际私法形式价值的载体.     

Prospect theory,operational code analysis,and risk-taking behaviour: a new model of China’s crisis behaviour

Integrating prospect theory and operational code analysis, this paper introduces an innovative approach to studying the decision making of Chinese leaders during crises. The unique contribution of this paper is to adopt the methodology of operational code analysis to measure the domain of actions of policy makers in the application of prospect theory. We suggest that leaders’ operational code beliefs can help us to identify in which domain of actions (gains or losses) leaders are located during crises. Xi Jinping experienced two notable foreign policy crises in 2014, the ‘oil rig’ crisis with Vietnam and the ‘P-8 crisis’ with the United States, which are examined in detail to illustrate Xi’s operational code beliefs and risk-taking behaviour of ‘confident accommodation’ behaviour during crises. To test the process validity of integrating operational code analysis and prospect theory, Hu Jintao’s operational code beliefs and crisis behaviour in 2011–2012 are then compared to Xi’s beliefs and decisions in this study of China’s crisis behaviour.     

Normalization of antisemitism, 1880–1900: the case of a Jesuit community in Rome

The significance of the political antisemitism of the 1880s and 1890s for developments in the twentieth century remains controversial. Researchers have been divided as to whether the antisemitism of the nineteenth century, or even earlier, was one of the factors that made the Holocaust possible, or whether it was a phenomenon with little or no relevance for subsequent events. The decline of most antisemitic political parties at the beginning of the twentieth century appears to support the latter point of view. Yet some commentators, such as Shulamit Volkov and Peter Pulzer, have convincingly suggested that the importance of nineteenth-century antisemitism lies less in the political fortunes of antisemitic parties than in the way antisemitism came to penetrate civil society. Thus, they have argued, antisemitism came to form a component of a widespread conservative and anti-liberal world-view. Following Pulzer and Volkov, it might be desirable to investigate the processes by which antisemitism could have been transformed from an extremist political position into a common element in the outlook of broad portions of European society: mechanisms that have remained largely unexplored. Dahl's article studies the normalization of antisemitism in the two last decades of the nineteenth century through a scrutiny of shifts in the attitudes to Jews of a restricted group of Italian Jesuits. The analysis is based on a detailed study of La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit community in Rome that published a journal of the same name. Since its foundation in 1850 this institution has been an authoritative exponent of Catholic policy and is generally perceived as having been a protagonist in the formulation of a Catholic stance towards the ‘Jewish question’ in the later nineteenth century. Dahl shows that, while in the early 1880s, most members resisted or opposed the use of antisemitic propaganda, through the following two decades the attitudes of virtually all of them became tinged with antisemitism, supporting the hypothesis that antisemitism became part of a widespread ‘culture’. In his analysis, Dahl does not focus on the wider circulation of ideas that influenced the Roman Jesuits, but on the dynamics within the institution that made possible the gradual acceptance of antisemitism, arguing that a debate over antisemitism among the Jesuits in the early 1880s was a crucial moment in this development. As they failed at this early stage to formulate an anti-antisemitic response, they allowed antisemitism to become part of the culture of their institution, and rendered its later rejection practically impossible.     

美国怀俄明州刑法述评--以比较法为视角

美国的法律在试图向法典化迈进的征途中被深深地打上了其固有的英美法系传统的烙印,怀俄明州刑法一方面向法典化迈出一大步,另一方面也深深地烙上了美国实用主义文化的烙印.本文概述了该州刑法的主要内容,从比较法的角度上指出迈向法典化中的问题;同时指出法律规范是民族文化的积淀,两大法系的立法模式及其运作孰优孰劣,有待于法律运行的实效去检验,移植一项法律制度更为重要的是培育该制度赖以生根发芽的文化土壤.     

增设影响力交易罪：全面规制间接受贿行为——兼评《刑法修正案》（七）草案第11条

《刑法修正案》（七）草案第11条新增了贿赂犯罪的内容,这有助于严密抗制贿赂犯罪的刑事法网。但是,就新增条文贿赂犯罪内容的罪名确认,存在着不同的看法。在充分分析贿赂新增条文罪名确定的争议后,我们认为,宜增设影响力交易罪来全面规制间接受贿行为,在此基础上,提出了增设影响力交易罪的具体路径。     

书法文化的人生密码

书法通常被当作艺术。然而,如果将中国书法仅仅理解为一种艺术,那就曲解和委屈了书法,误读了它对于中国民族的深刻意义。在其他文明中,书法也许只是艺术,但在中国,它却是文化本身。书法、书法史,是中国人的文化基因图表,演绎着中国人的精神世界和性格构造。书之＂法＂与人之＂法＂统一,赋予其＂方不中矩,圆不副规＂的＂从心所欲不逾矩＂的中国式自由意境;刚柔性格,进退智慧,演绎着＂志在飞移＂、＂将奔未驰＂的＂无为而无不为＂的人生大智慧,＂书写＂着儒道佛三位一体的极富弹性的安身立命的基地;真善美贯通,表达了＂风骚之意＂与＂天地之心＂的天作之合,沉默庄严地演奏着中国人高明悠远的灵魂协奏曲。     

浮动抵押逸出担保物权体系的理论证成

具有担保功能的权利,并非都是担保物权。如果一项权利既不符合担保物权的特征,亦有违物权法的基本原则,就不属于担保物权。对比浮动抵押与担保物权的特征可以发现,浮动抵押有担保功能但并非担保物权。在民法典编纂背景下,宜将浮动抵押从担保物权体系剔除。考察比较法资料,结合\"charge\"的词源语义,遵循语言翻译的忠实严谨原则,宜将\"floating charge\"译为\"浮动担保\"而非\"浮动抵押\"。至于浮动担保何去何从,相对合理的方案是将其嵌入合同法域,规定于我国民法典合同编之\"合同的担保\"章节,以此彰显民法典的体系性与逻辑性。     

浅析我国民法典编纂体例的几点问题

我国未来民法典编纂过程中,应注意对人格权独立成编及其在民法典中的位置设置,以及是否设立债权总则等问题。     

Does an effective bankruptcy reform impact the selling cost behavior of firms? Evidence from India

This study examined whether strengthening of creditors' rights impacts the selling cost behavior of firms or not? To investigate this question, the author exploited implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) in 2016 in India as an exogenous policy shock. The author found that selling cost of firms in India in the pre-implementation period were not “sticky”. Further, implementation of the IBC produced no impact on the selling cost behavior of Indian firms in the post-implementation period. Nonetheless, legislation of the IBC was found to have lowered financial resources that firms devoted to their selling activities. In addition, firms that faced a higher risk of bankruptcy because of more leverage in the pre-IBC period demonstrated greater response to promulgation of the IBC. Thus, it can be inferred that an effective bankruptcy reform has little impact on the selling cost behavior of firms but incentivizes them to devote lesser financial resources to their selling activities in order to lower their bankruptcy risk.