Organized Crime in Asia: A Review of Problems and Progress

This paper provides a preliminary overview of research on organized crime in Asia drawing on selected papers from a symposium held at the National University of Singapore in June 2007. We draw on these contributions to emphasize the enterprise nature of organized crime and the common problems encountered by law enforcement in controlling and preventing the many harms inflicted by serious criminal activity. Recent attempts to address the changing character and forms of transnational organized crime, especially through the strengthening of mutual legal assistance by regional bodies such as ASEAN, are noted. These measures have yet to develop into the cross-border institutional frameworks now found in Europe, and the level of effective co-operation can only continue to improve. Countering organized crime in Asia also faces additional difficulties arising from the cultural diversity, relative weakness of law enforcement in some states and the lack of common strategies in respect to illicit markets.

出卖人违反权利瑕疵担保义务问题研究——以国际货物买卖合同的法律效力为中心

《联合国国际货物销售合同公约》对合同效力问题采取了"知难而退"的回避态度,因此当出卖人违反瑕疵担保义务之际如何判定合同的效力便成为一个重大而棘手的问题。分析表明,如果在确定所有权归属时侧重于保护善意买受人,而在合同法中却认定善意买受人所订立的买卖合同无效或效力待定,这势必使法律的保护重心动不定,由此导致法律适用的困难。鉴于世界各国对保护善意第三人的立场基本一致,建议公约明确规定在出卖人违反权利瑕疵担保义务而买受人为善意时,买卖合同为有效合同。     

Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings: The Phenomenon, The Markets that Drive It and the Organisations that Promote It

This article will define the concepts of smuggling and trafficking in human beings and discuss the difficulty in applying the definition. The magnitude and scope of the problem will be examined as well as its causes. Trafficking in human beings will be analysed as an illegal market, particularly with reference to its relationship with other illegal markets and the involvement of organised crime groups. The phenomenon will be discussed in more depth focusing on countries and regions where projects are currently being implemented under the auspices of the United Nations Global Programme against Trafficking in Human Beings. The discussion closes with an overview of situations which facilitate the practice, and current measures and recommendations to stem the tide of smuggling and trafficking.     

Analyzing conflict severity: Predictions of distributive justice theory for the two-subgroup case

This paper formulates a model of conflict based on the theory of distributive justice. The model begins with a condition we termcleavage: There is a perfect correlation between the distribution of a valued good and a grouping variable such as race, ethnicity, or sex. Cleavage sets the stage for conflict. Two key elements are specified—conflict severity and subgroup effectiveness—and their mathematical representation described. The paper analyzes the special case where the conflict involves two subgroups, and focuses on conflict severity. Analysis identifies several sources of variability in conflict severity: the relative sizes of the two subgroups; whether the advantaged subgroup is the smaller or larger; whether the collectivity values personal attributes (such as noble birth or athletic skill) or instead values material possessions; and the extent and shape of inequality in the distribution of material possessions. Results indicate, among other things, that, in a collectivity which values personal attributes, the smaller is the disadvantaged subgroup, the greater is the conflict severity. In contrast, in a collectivity which values material wealth, the direction of the effect of subgroup relative size on conflict severity depends on the distributional form of the valued material possessions. Results also indicate that, for given subgroup relative size, conflict severity is higher the greater the inequality in the distribution of valued material possessions.     

海运危货法律关系论纲

论述了海运危货法律关系中运输主体的资格及其在危货运输中的权利义务问题,阐释了危货运输行为及危货本身的法律属性,揭示了海运危货法律关系相对于海上货物运输法律关系的特殊性。     

俄罗斯远东发展生活资料市场的规划和措施

俄罗斯远东的买方市场是在生产能力不足而不是过剩的条件下形成的,许多消费品还依赖进口就是明证。俄罗斯国家和远东地方政府出台了一系列发展生活资料市场的规划和措施,但是远东消费品工业发展滞后的局面难以根本改观。     

Notes Toward a Theory of Ideology in Historlcal Writing on Modern Afrlca

Since the publication of her first novel Le ventre de l’Atlantique (2003), Fatou Diome, a Senegalese author who immigrated to France in the 1990s, has been regularly invited to French cultural TV programmes, in which she often criticises European foreign policy, as well as social and racial segregation. Despite her public political commitment, in several interviews, Fatou Diome argues that literature should be dissociated from politics. This article analyses Diome’s narrative techniques when depicting current social issues in her second novel Kétala (2006). In Kétala, Diome shows how Senegalese gay people and women face social violence and exclusion. Drawing on queer theory and the concept of performance, this article describes the various strategies through which marginalised identities in Kétala contest heteronormative social representations. This paper argues that Fatou Diome’s novel captures the reality through a singular poetics.     

论国际海运货物保险的保险利益

本文分析了英国法环境下国际海运货物保险利益界定的弊端 ,建议我国确立以“风险承担”为界来界定保险利益的法律模式 ;结合实际对实务中颇具争论的“保险利益的相对性”、“保险利益与保险合同效力”和“保险利益与损失”等问题进行了研究 ,提出了自己的观点和立法建议。     

试析物资采购中的贪污手段及查验对策

贪污犯罪常见于物资采购业务中 ,作案人常用的手段有变换单据金额、重复报帐、编造业务等。通过对原始凭证的查验 ,能够收集贪污犯罪的会计证据 ,从而揭露和证实犯罪。实践中需要查验的主要内容有单据的规格、质量 ,单据上字迹书写程度及特征 ,涂改的字迹 ,发票开具者与收款者、单据的印鉴与单据是否相符 ,单据的遮盖点 ,发票的填制时间及号码等等。     

Replevin – Repeal or Retain?

In the light of the current Green Paperproposing extensive reform of bailiff'slaw in England and Wales, this article weighsup the arguments for and against retaining themedieval remedy of replevin (a processfor the summary recovery of goods seized indistraint and the subsequent trial of thelegality of their seizure). The common law andstatutory provisions are reviewed and compared.It is concluded that there is no need to retainreplevin, as the statutory procedure availablein cases of wrongful interference withgoods provide equivalent remedies, without anyof the procedural and costs disadvantages ofreplevin.