A Review of: “Alfred G. Gerteiny. The Terrorist Conjunction: The United States,the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,and Al-Qa'ida”

Since the advent of the Good Friday peace agreement, violence associated with dissident Irish Republican groups continues to present major security challenges. While there has not been a tragedy on the scale of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the level of violent dissident Republican (VDR) activity has risen steadily in frequency since then, and in 2010 reached unprecedented levels. This article presents findings from the VDR Project at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University. The research is based on the extensive identification, collection, and analysis of open source material examining the nature and extent of VDR activity from 1997 to 2010. The project analyses data on VDR activity across this period as well as the individuals taking part in these violent events. The data suggests that while originally recruitment was predominantly southern based it is now more focused on Northern Ireland. Analysis of the data also indicates that the VDR leadership continues to recruit individuals with skill-sets to serve the movement's aims.     

Counting homeless persons with surveys of users of services for the homeless

Abstract

Because of their comparative economy, the most commonly used methods for counting the homeless focus on users of shelters, food lines, health clinics for the homeless, and other services for the homeless. This paper argues that surveys restricted to shelter users are of limited usefulness, but that joint surveys of food‐line, shelter, and clinic users include very substantial proportions of the homeless in many communities. Such comprehensive surveys can provide an accurate basis for research on the homeless in communities with reasonably capacious service systems. The reliability of such surveys has grown as service systems for the homeless have improved. Groups of the homeless that tend to be missed in service user surveys include homeless youths on their own as well as substantial portions of the rural homeless population and of the doubled‐up or institutionalized homeless populations. Surveys of homeless persons sleeping in known places “on the streets” can be used to supplement surveys of service users. Research in Colorado suggests that such supplemental surveys of the street population provide a practical basis for comprehensive estimates of the homeless street population.     

不动产查封公示问题研究

不动产查封是一个涉及司法秩序与交易安全的问题。为防止查封可能造成的司法冲突 ,确保第三人的利益不受意外的伤害 ,需要有健全的法定化的查封公示制度。不动产查封应以登记为准。特殊情况下未以登记办理的查封 ,应迅速补办查封登记 ;未办理查封登记的不得对抗后登记的查封     

从占有到物权--论占有在物权法中的基础地位

占有是物权的起点.在不具任何法权因素的纯粹占有中,包涵了物权法的全部最为基本的特征:意志性、支配性和排他性.虽然物权法以理性的权利设计,取代了占有的事实要求,而成为支配方式的核心,但是占有在物权法中的重要角色并未因此丧失.相反,占有构成物权实现其支配性和排他性的基础.     

物权变动中第三人保护的基本规则

由于善意取得制度本身的缺陷 ,无法充分保护第三人的利益 ,其保护第三人利益的功能不如公示公信原则周密。物权的公示公信原则与物权行为无因性理论均坚持物权变动须经公示 ,且物权公示具有公信力 ,二者在保护第三人利益方面具有一致性 ,但两者之间无法相互替代。他们具有内在的本质的联系 ,物权行为理论的区分原则和抽象原则为物权变动的公示以及公示的公信力提供了理论依据。应以物权行为无因性理论为基础 ,以公示公信制度为原则 ,以善意取得制度为补充构建我国物权法的第三人保护制度。     

契约、意思主义、卖买——试论清末时期的物权契约观念

清末时期，日本民法学逐步被引入中国。日本民法学在契约定义上，采用广义契约学说；在物权移转主义上，采用意思主义学说。这为物权契约观念的生成提供了前提和基础。“物权之契约”和“债权契约”用语相继被使用。至民国初年，大理院则通过判例，对物权契约进行了定义，并界定了物权契约的有效成立要件。但清末时期的物权契约观念与德国民法学理论中的物权契约（物权行为）有着本质区别。     

论土地承包经营权对行政权的规制——以物权法的公布为背景

《物权法》确立了平等保护、物权法定、公示公信的物权三原则,明确了农村土地承包经营权的物权性,并对行政权产生了相应的制约。平等保护原则要求国家、集体和个人在土地承包中地位平等,征收土地足额补偿,行政机关侵犯土地承包经营权应承担与私人侵权等同的法律责任;物权法定原则要求各级政府及其工作部门修改相应的法规、遵守行政法中的法律保留原则;公示公信原则要求行政登记主体按照《物权法》的规定,切实做好土地承包经营权证的发放工作和流转登记工作。     

要物合同的意义探源

要物合同在罗马法中是一个非常重要的概念,近现代民法理论因以合同客体区分各种合同,弃它不用了.但即使它现在不再以法律制度的面貌出现,其类型仍大部分保留在了近代以来的民法典之中,且与前述理论所主张的合意是合同的唯一构成要件形成悖反.为理解近现代理论为何还保留具体的要物合同,最好回到其源头求得其真意.     

我国不动产异议登记制度的完善——以《物权法》第19条第2款为切入点

《物权法》第一次以国家立法形式确认了不动产异议登记制度,但该规定较笼统,在实践中缺乏操作性。在评析我国不动产异议登记规定的基础上对构建我国不动产异议登记制度作出立法建议。     

对《担保法》第49条的思考与探讨

我国以房地产作为抵押物进行按揭贷款时,现行立法对抵押物的转让做出了限制性规定。这种限制的结果使得抵押人很难转让抵押物,不利于房地产市场的顺利发展。