Career Paths and Choices in a Highly Differentiated Profession: The Position of Newly Qualified Solicitors

Differences in the working lives of solicitors have become increasingly marked in recent years. Growing numbers of lawyers are employed in the public and corporate sectors and, with the increasing size and wealth of City of London commercial firms, there are significant differences between these firms and those 'high-street' firms that serve local communities. These differences impact on lawyers throughout training and beyond, both in terms of rites of passage into the profession and in conditions of employment. This research, the final stage in a longitudinal survey spanning the 1990s, combines quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the reactions of newly qualified solicitors to their work. Building on the project's previous surveys, which charted the nature of disadvantage suffered by many prospective entrants to the legal profession, the research finds a large measure of satisfaction regarding careers. It also identifies causes for concern, including increasing specialisation in legal education and the potential separation of the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of professional practice.     

我国当前法治对策研究的重点课题与进路

一个国家要实行法治、建设法治和发展法治,除了要研究和解决法治的基本理论问题外,还必须研究和解决实现法治的对策问题.我国当前亟需研究和解决的法治对策重点课题有五:执政党如何依法执政；人民如何有效监督政府；公权力如何既相互合作又相互制约；如何正确处理发展、改革、创新与法治的关系；如何正确处理服务型政府与有限政府、法治政府的关系.要对这些课题进行真正科学的研究,找出切合实际的答案,必须遵循正确的进路与方法,特别是要在法治对策研究要不要进行价值判断；法治对策研究应不应该从制定法出发；法治对策研究应如何平衡法的安定性、稳定性与改革、发展的变动性的关系；法治对策研究应如何处理激情与理性的关系等问题上作出正确的抉择.     

论制定香港信息公开法

香港政府的信息公开工作是以一部《公开资料守则》(以下简称《守则》)作为基础制度展开整个公开透明框架。这部颁布于1995年的政府内部指引因没有法律效力、涵盖范围狭隘、没有提供救济等问题广受诟病,制定信息公开法和档案法的呼声在香港日益高涨。从经验借鉴的视角看,香港制定《守则》时的参照国——具有浓厚保密行政传统的英国已顺应国内立法呼声而制定了信息公开立法;从实践必要性的角度看,香港过去几年实践经验表明,在缺少一部信息公开立法的情况下,香港民众通过民主手段获取资料的成本更高,耗时更久;从理论正当性的角度看,香港公民享有正当的知情权,而政府具有通过立法保障该权利的责任。因此,香港信息公开法的出台具有必要性和正当性。     

Evaluating academic technology transfer performance by how well access to knowledge is facilitated––defining an access metric

Why should research institutions engage in technology transfer? Some say it is about the money. Others say it is about public service and benefit. In the end, we measure what we value. If we only measure money, we confound the non-profit mission of the research institution. If we measure economic impact, the non-profit technology transfer office is often expected to become the economic developer, confusing real estate and business development with technology transfer, often without additional funding. These mission strains lead to overwhelm, fatigue, service shortcomings, and unhappy customers across all classes of stakeholders. This article suggests a return to center for academic technology transfer offices (TTOs) by focusing on a most important question for drivers of our present global knowledge economy––how well does a TTO facilitate access to knowledge protected by intellectual property of its faculty and institution? This article proposes that academic technology transfer performance should be evaluated by how well a TTO avails access to knowledge. Given that performance measures are also referred to as “metrics,” we call this preferred outcomes orientation an access metric.     

Integrating Europe’s PSI re-use rules - Demystifying the maze

Despite various studies evincing the huge potential locked up in public sector information (PSI), this potential is far from being fully exploited. To a large extent, this failure is caused by the immensely complex legal labyrinth surrounding PSI re-use. This complexity works in two ways: public sector bodies do not comply with the regulatory framework and re-users do not avail themselves of the legal instruments offered, resulting in unexploited economic potential. What makes the legal framework so complex is the transcending nature of PSI re-use, as it blends four areas of law - freedom of information law, ICT law, intellectual property law and competition law - that, throughout the years, have been regulated at a European, national and even at a sectoral level, but in isolation. The fundamental impact that ICT developments have on our society, subsequently also rocking the legal rules and underlying principles and axioms, makes the picture even more complicated. Taking the maximization of utility of PSI as a starting point in this article, I will anatomize each of these legal frameworks and demonstrate how they interact, culminating in a conceptual framework that may help public sector bodies and re-users, and courts where necessary, to apply and rely on the rules involved and to bring to the surface areas for policy action, both at the national and European level.     

Excel统计分析工具在痕迹检验中的应用

痕迹检验是用来揭露和证实犯罪，痕迹检验的结果为侦查、起诉审判提供着不可或缺的线索和证据。痕迹检验中会遇到大量的数据处理，数理统计学提供了有力的科学支持和有效地分析方法，而Excel则为此提供了方便快捷的统计分析工具，让我们在痕迹检验过程中，能都科学的、有效地、快捷的进行数据分析，为侦查破案提供依据。     

Excel和Word在学报订户管理中的应用

利用Excel进行订户登记、查询订户详细情况、管理统计和利用Word制作邮签,可以提高编辑部的工作效率和质量。     

从利用BBS犯罪分析网络内容服务商的不作为刑事责任

网络服务商包括网络连接服务商和网络内容服务商。网络连接服务商由于各种原因不能成为互联网中不作为犯罪的主体。从不作为犯罪的构成原理来看,网络内容服务商如BBS及其相关工作人员完全符合不作为犯罪的构成条件,并且其罪过形式只能是故意犯罪。然而,我国现行刑法却对这一犯罪主体及相关罪名没有明确规定,无疑会放纵此类危害甚大的犯罪。     

用EXCEL管理期刊

用Excel来管理期刊 ,就是根据Excel电子表格的功能特性 ,让Excel来完成杂志的征订 ,现刊、过刊的借还、查询、检索等期刊的日常管理工作。充分发掘“自动化潜能” ,实现我们自己的“LIS系统”。     

Managerial incentives and access price regulation

Policy makers have identified the non-discrimination principle as a key instrument to regulate vertically integrated firms in control of upstream bottlenecks. It has been argued that the non-discrimination principle may create a level playing field, but at the expense of higher consumer prices. However, this rests on the assumption that the firms do not respond strategically to the regulation. We show that a non-discrimination requirement makes the vertically integrated firm behave more aggressively. Consequently, non-discrimination regulation rarely creates a level playing field. Neither does it necessarily increase end-user prices. Indeed, we show that end-user prices may fall.