论我国《保险法》中的不可抗辩条款及其适用

我国新《保险法》正式引入了不可抗辩条款,这将对我国保险业务的经营产生深远的影响.但我国对不可抗辩条款的立法比较粗糙,对其司法适用并没有设定具体情形,在保险实践中容易引发争议.立足不可抗辩条款的制度价值,通过考察国外立法规则,对我国保险法上的不可抗辩条款的具体适用做进一步探讨,以期能对该条款的司法适用有所裨益.     

非常夫妻财产制的若干问题研究

作为夫妻财产制的重要组成部分,非常夫妻财产制对于保护夫妻合法权益和维系交易安全具有不可替代的重要意义。在我国实行非常夫妻财产制已经具有思想基础、经济基础和法律依据,国外的立法和司法实践也为此提供了可供借鉴的经验。当正常夫妻财产制的适用基础丧失时,具有特定主体资格的当事人可以申请法院宣告适用非常夫妻财产制,并同时请求对共同财产的处置权利进行限制。一旦其适用情形不复存在,夫妻双方皆可申请恢复普通夫妻财产制。     

论公共政策终结的启动策略

在政策终结过程中,通常会遭遇来自各个方面不同程度或层次的抵制与阻碍,可能在不同的政策领域,政策行动者的意识形态、政策运行轨迹等因素有所不同。因此,在政策终结启动过程中,政策行动者需要采取迅速的回应策略,以推动政策终结的顺利开启。由此,可以藉由组织结构、法律修订、政府预算、人事安排以及媒体报道等策略,来启动政策终结的程序。     

论以欺诈、胁迫的手段或者乘人之危订立的劳动合同的效力——兼论《劳动合同法》相关条款的矛盾及解决

《劳动合同法》第二十六条规定以欺诈、胁迫的手段或者乘人之危订立的劳动合同为无效合同,第三十八条、第三十九条又将因欺诈、胁迫或乘人之危订立劳动合同作为劳动合同解除的情形加以规定,这违背了无效合同不能解除的法理。将以欺诈、胁迫或乘人之危订立的劳动合同规定为可撤销合同可以解决这一矛盾,并能够更好地保护当事人的利益。     

艺术在现代社会的终结与重生

艺术是人认识自由真理的初级阶段，也是人实现其自由本性的第一个领域。人的自由理性、人类心理的自由需要便是艺术根本和必然的起源。艺术终结，与其说是黑格尔从当时的艺术实践中观察到的现象，不如说是黑格尔从他的理论体系中推导出来的结果。只要人类没有终结，艺术就不会终结。     

Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the Dayton Peace Process

The Bosnian War (1992–1995) was one of the most brutal conflicts in Europe since the end of World War II. Thirty‐four cease‐fires failed to produce peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina until the late American diplomat, Richard Holbrooke, brokered one that set the stage for a series of negotiations—starting in the Balkans and ending in Dayton, Ohio. The Dayton peace process finally terminated the Bosnian War. The interplay of military intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and diplomacy by the United States was remarkable. This article highlights thirteen conflict resolution lessons or “Holbrookeisms” that can be learned from the Dayton peace process. Some aspects of Holbrooke's approach toward the peace process helped him to successfully mediate an end to the Bosnian War, while others contributed toward some of the existing cleavages in today's Bosnian society.     

LESSENING THE STING OF ASFA: THE REHABILITATION‐RELAPSE DILEMMA BROUGHT ABOUT BY DRUG ADDICTION AND TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS

Congress passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) as a response to children waiting in foster homes for years without permanent placement. In addressing the problem of permanency, however, Congress set a strict limit on how long a child could be in foster care (15 out of the most recent 22 months) before a state must either commence a proceeding to terminate parental rights or else lose valuable federal funding. Due to health care funding schemes and quality of treatment, this requirement, in particular, negatively impacts parents currently in drug rehabilitation whose parental rights may be permanently terminated before a realistic chance to recover is permitted. Although ASFA requires that states make “reasonable efforts” to keep families united, it does not define “reasonable efforts,” leaving parental rights and family unity subject to a chaotic interpretation of this requirement from state to state. “Reasonable efforts” should be interpreted to take into account current drug addiction and recovery research and drug court programs should be used to facilitate this goal. Research has shown that focusing on adequate treatment saves states money and improves the lives of children and their families, reducing the need for reliance on termination of parental rights.     

Sources of Leader Support and Interstate Rivalry

Since segments of the selectorate differently experience costs and benefits from rivalry, the foreign policy choices of leaders reflect these domestic preferences. As a result, shifts in the composition of the domestic coalition of support backing the leader provide a fundamental determinant of rivalry termination. While previous research sought to explore the relationship between domestic political turnover and rivalry termination using regime transitions as a proxy for turnover of the state’s domestic ruling group, in practice this measure exhibits significant disconnection with the quantity of interest. Further, there are alternative pathways through which regime transitions may lead to rivalry termination. I test the relationship using new data from the CHISOLS project, finding that when rivals undergo a change in the source of support that maintains the leader in office, the probability of rivalry termination rises dramatically. I further find that regime transitions have an effect on the probability of rivalry termination that is independent of the effect of ruling coalition turnover. This study thus both asserts the relationship between domestic political turnover and rivalry termination and clarifies the mechanism by which the relationship operates.     

From Media Attention to Negotiated Peace: Human Rights Reporting and Civil War Duration

Violations of human rights in the context of a conflict have in recent years received an increasing amount of attention from the international media. Yet how such media attention influences conflict remains understudied and, a priori, uncertain. On the one hand, media coverage of human rights abuses may constitute “naming and shaming” that might temper hostilities. On the other hand, such coverage might spark intransigence and complicate negotiations among conflicting parties, thereby hindering rather than hastening peace. This article tries to adjudicate among these and other possibilities by exploring how media reporting on human rights abuses influences the development of conflicts. The analysis reveals that such reporting is associated with shorter conflicts and negotiated agreements between fighting parties.