CONSULTANT CONDUCT IN ANTICIPATION OF A CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATION: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND THE NEED FOR NEUTRAL PARENT EDUCATION

Mental health professionals are being retained with increasing frequency as “custody consultants” to prepare a parent for a child custody evaluation. While this practice may serve a legitimate function, no ethical guidelines clearly govern the conduct of a consultant in such circumstances. This lack of guidance has led to professional disagreement regarding the ethical implications of the practice. This ethical ambiguity is accompanied by social concern regarding the high cost of custody consulting, which has the practical effect of denying consulting services to low‐income or self‐represented litigants. This Note will describe the growing practice of custody consulting and the ethical and social unease currently associated with the practice. This Note will then propose that mandatory parent education programs be developed for parents preparing to undergo a custody evaluation. This type of educational program would provide many of the benefits of custody consulting in an ethically neutral fashion and would ensure that all parents have access to the benefits of this growing practice.     

法律职业伦理的再反思——从外在要求到行为哲学

法治秩序的构建,离不开法律伦理的培育。法律伦理乃规范法律专业行为的特殊规定。基于专业的原因,法律伦理的要求不同于大众伦理的要求。对法律伦理的背离缘自法律人对自身角色及其所在的法律职业共同体的不自信,这实际上是法治危机的表征。法律人由于追逐社会良心而游弋于法律之外,这种看似正义凛然实则粗糙的司法行动难以提升公众对司法的信心,也难以树立司法的威严。矢志于实现社会正义的法律人不仅要把法律伦理当成一种规定,更要把它当成身体力行的行为哲学,把它当成须竭力实现的信仰般的高尚追求。     

当代政府的行政伦理及建设路径

政府的行政伦理问题由来已久,行政伦理建设也是政府建设的一项重要内容。行政伦理问题随着政府的产生而产生,并随着政府的发展而发展。行政伦理的核心是行政责任,由于政府行政人员身份的特殊性,其在履行行政责任的过程中经常会遇到各种责任冲突,包括权力冲突、角色冲突和利益冲突等。行政伦理的建设与加强体现于冲突的应对过程中,组织、个人与法制三个方面则是加强行政伦理建设的三个方向。     

高校廉政文化建设的现状、不足及对策

加强高校廉政文化建设是高校党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争的必然要求,是建设社会主义大学的客观需要。高校需要通过健全廉政文化建设的领导体制和工作机制,制定合理而有效的规章制度,创新形式和内容,因人分岗施教,推进廉洁文化进校园,努力营造干部廉洁从政、教师廉洁从教、职工廉洁从业、学生廉洁修身的良好校园氛围,为高校的反腐倡廉建设提供文化支撑。     

三维视角中的公共行政概念

公共行政的概念在三重关系中获得了原则性的规定。首先,公共行政是在科学与伦理的关系中得到定位的,所要解决的是政府在社会治理中应当基于科学理念还是基于伦理观念的问题。在这个问题上,公共行政生成时期的学者们基本上主张依据科学的理念去进行政府体系建构,开展社会治理活动。第二,公共行政是在政治与行政的关系中获得相对独立性的,是在政治与行政的分化中通过赋予政治价值中立的特性而使行政具有了形式上的公共性。第三,是在私人性与公共性的区分中界定了公共行政,指认公共行政是公共部门的管理,以求区别于私人部门的管理活动。     

西方恢复性司法理论渊源之考究

恢复性司法的勃兴固然与该司法模式所显现的社会效果不无关系,但我们也不能忽视其背后所隐藏的深厚、坚固且充满朝气的理论渊源,即"后现代主义"、"平衡正义"和"现代伦理"。探究其理论渊源有利于人们更好地认识恢复性司法。     

现代环境伦理与环境法律契合的新视点

当代环境与发展的矛盾引起人们环境伦理与环境法律的交互思考,也引发从传统环境伦理观的天人合一、人类中心主义和片面发展过渡到新的以人为本、科学发展、和谐社会和生态中心主义的环境伦理观。法律生态化突出生态本位的法律观念,强调代际公平与种际公平的价值取向,以保障环境权为重心,树立预防优先的立法倾向。环境法治包含了环境法律的体系,环境立法、司法、执法,以及环境法律救济和监督等内容。     

全球化与中国主权伦理的深度更新

本文深入探讨了民族国家主权伦理的基本内涵、核心内容和经典类型，仔细剖析了全球化现象对民族国家主权伦理的巨大挑战，并指出面对汹涌澎湃的全球化浪潮，中国必须在民族历史思想基础、国家主权伦理理念、国内制度伦理建构、对外交往伦理策略、联合国政治伦理作用发挥等层面完成国家主权伦理的深度更新。     

Technics over life: risk,ethics and the existential condition in high-tech antenatal care

The subject of this paper is the problem of selective abortion brought about by advanced techniques of foetal diagnosis. The issue of abortion today is analysed as an outcome and illustration of the emerging ‘vital politics’. The paper explores the technicality of this new form of bio-power, and the ethical practice and forms of subjectivity it imposes. Two main points are raised. First, it is argued that the implementation of state-of-the-art foetal diagnosis in clinical practice and maternity care is underlain by the rationales of control and experimentation. The ideas of risk and the dividual are introduced as the epistemic cornerstones of this practice of high-tech reproductive medicine according to the above rationales. Second, the paper argues that foetal diagnosis in antenatal care is characterised by an ethical split. This emerges when the machinery of reproductive health care withdraws into a position of technical responsibility and leaves the choice, and the ethical responsibility, concerning medical operations (selective abortion, in particular) to the pregnant woman. This suggests that high-tech biomedicine tends to individualise risks and to impose a form of ethical individuality characterised by the demand for reflexivity through personal risk assessment, producing the anxiety generated by existential responsibility.     

论技术的反生态性及其出路

在严重的生态危机背景下，技术的反生态性致使其常常被指责为生态危机的罪魁祸首。技术的反生态性，不仅仅存在于技术本身，更深层的原因应在于其背后价值观的指导和人性伦理的反生态性。我们该如何运用技术？显然应以遵循大自然为总则，分别从技术选择、科学价值指导和人性伦理的复归三个方面着手回归自然。在我国，科学发展观的指导，技术内部评审机制和外部支撑机制的呼应，为技术生态化的制度性建构描绘了一幅蓝图。