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正RRhonda Larson Flute Concert DD ate:July 11,2014PP lace:Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall PPrice:RMB 680/380/280/180/100An exceptionally talented flautist,composer and conductor,Rhonda Larson started to learn l ute at the age of 10.In 1985,she won i rst prize at the U.S.National Flute Association’s Young Artists Competition.Later,Larson won a Grammy Award.She has collected a variety of valuable and rare flutes from indigenous peoples and nations around the world,to enrich her musical instruments and the timbre of her music.In her Guangzhou concert,the flautist will render folk songs,classical music and world new-school music,playing more than 10 types of l utes.     

Parroting the past: historical continuity and change through cultures of cruelty in Brazil

ABSTRACT

In the recent Brazilian Netflix series 3% (Aguilera 2016), international audiences were presented with an array of visual reminders about the legacy of historic human rights abuses in Brazil. With the image of the pau de arara as a point of historic and semiotic reference, this paper adopts evidence and ideas from New Capitalist History to extend the interrogation of the historical memory of torture in Brazil in particular, to the rise and predominance of coercive practices in workplace cultures in free societies in general. This interrogation demonstrates the need for paradigm shifts within Western academic disciplines. First, to re-locate historically modern slavery in political philosophy as central to conceptions of “evil,” and second to overturn the notion of discontinuity and incompatibility between slavery and capitalism. Throughout this interrogation, a short story by Machado de Assis and Lissovsky’s critique of processes of memorialisation of human rights abuses open up the possibility of revisionist thinking about technologies of power, under slavery, military rule, and democratic regimes in Brazil; an approach which suggests systematic and sustained “cultures of cruelty” past and present (Giroux).     

Command without control: The case of China's environmental target system

In the existing literature there is general agreement that the effectiveness and efficiency of command and control instruments versus market‐based instruments is highly context specific. A country's particular regulatory environment and state capacity, as well as the features of given environmental problems, play an important role in ascertaining what the “right” set of policy instruments for environmental management might be. This article examines how command and control instruments are used as an environmental enforcement mechanism in China's authoritarian state. Based on extensive fieldwork, this paper shows that the reliance on binding environmental targets as the main domestic policy instrument in China has generated numerous undesirable consequences. While China's target‐based approach to implementation has incentivized local officials to strictly enforce environmental mandates, there are numerous shortcomings in the system. In particular, target rigidity, cyclical behaviour, poor data quality, and the absence of an independent monitoring agency have generated adverse effects and contribute to a yawning gap between regulatory goals and outcomes. The paper concludes that binding environmental targets as the main command–control instrument in China can be more accurately described as “command without control” as the target‐setting central government does not exercise a high degree of control over implementation and monitoring processes. But command and control instruments can be suited for managing “first‐generation” environmental problems and addressing environmental issues that have easily identifiable pollution sources and which are easy to verify.     

刑讯逼供现状调查报告——以监狱服刑人员为调查对象

为了解在押服刑人员未决羁押期间的刑讯逼供现状及其主观认知状况,开展了此次调查。调查表明,公安机关侦查案件时,存在着大量的刑讯逼供行为;公诉阶段检察人员较少使用刑讯逼供;变相刑讯逼供较直接刑讯逼供更为普遍,且在职务犯罪侦查中较容易出现;男性遭遇刑讯逼供的比例高于女性;受教育程度较低的犯罪嫌疑人较容易遭遇刑讯逼供;侵犯财产犯罪更易遭遇刑讯逼供;在押犯中不存在"反直觉现象"。为预防刑讯逼供,建议提高物证技术水平,降低口供作用;对财产类犯罪采取更有效的预防措施;加强对弱势群体的法律援助。     

Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: Lessons from Comparative Experience

Recent years have seen an increase in the use of delegated legislation to implement major policy decisions in the UK. This has exacerbated the longstanding criticism that Westminster lacks sufficiently robust procedures for parliamentary scrutiny of delegated legislation. However, the UK is not the only country to use delegated legislation, or to face the challenge of ensuring it receives adequate parliamentary scrutiny. This article therefore places the UK system in wider context by comparing it to six other national parliaments. We highlight one comparative strength of the UK system, two weaknesses it shares with the other six cases, and one way in which the UK might learn lessons from elsewhere. Overall, our evidence suggests that no one country offers a clear template for more rigorous parliamentary scrutiny of delegated legislation. Successful reform of the UK's system is likely to require creative procedural innovation.     

Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market-based instruments for local water sustainability

Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation available to municipalities, what drives them to opt for a market-based instrument (MBI)? MBIs can be effective and efficient policy instruments to enhance water quantity conservation, but there is little known about why municipalities utilize them. This study hypothesizes that three contextual elements influence a municipality's use of an MBI: the natural, political, and structural environment. The results from two logistic regression models suggest that in a municipality suffering a higher drought level, both a conservative political environment and operating under a council-manager form of government (with the effect more pronounced under a non-council-manager form) will increase the likelihood that it will use an MBI to address water conservation.     

行政诉讼类型化研究——以漳州市行政审判为例

行政诉讼类型化理论和制度体系是推动我国行政法治进程的重要一环,然而我国现有法律对行政诉讼类型并未作明确的规定。从现实审判需要的角度出发,针对违反法定程序的撤销诉讼判决种类过于简单、客观诉讼和规范审查诉讼标准尚无体现、诉讼类型与判决种类尚未衔接等问题,可在借鉴域外经验的基础上,完善行政诉讼类型且主张法院只能针对特定的行政诉讼类型作出特定的判决种类,以构建我国行政诉讼类型化体系。     

论票据质押背书的效力——《票据法》与《物权法》之间立法冲突的协调

在我国《票据法》和《物权法》中,质押背书对票据出质具有不同的作用,于前者为生效要件,于后者则没有要求。尽管如此,两个法律文件关于票据出质的规则并不存在根本冲突。当事人既可按照《票据法》经质押背书设立票据法上的票据质权,也可以按照普通债权质押设立物权法上的票据质权。只不过,根据不同法律规则设立的票据质权在内容上存在差异,且未经背书的票据质押因为不符合背书这一技术要求而不具备《票据法》上的特别效力。     

论“狱侦耳目”制度被滥用的危害及对策

“狱侦耳目”制度被滥用的危害长期以来被人们所忽视.“狱侦耳目”制度作为一项刑侦手段,有可能异化为变相的刑讯逼供,破坏监管秩序,或者引诱犯罪,从而影响司法公正,危及法治的实现和人权的保护.为防止“狱侦耳目”制度被滥用,首先应该在立法层面对此项制度的适用范围作出严格限制;其次法官在司法过程中应对由“狱侦耳目”作出的证人证言谨慎对待,最后即使必须使用“狱侦耳目”,也应对他们进行必要的培训和考试,若有违法行为应追究刑事责任.