Professionals and Shifts in Governance

The position of professionals in public services is affected directly by public management reforms. This article systematically links different types of governance to professionalism, using Osborne's (2010 Osborne, S.P. 2010. The new public governance, London: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) distinction between Public Administration, New Public Management and New Public Governance. In the development of professionalism in the context of public management, one can observe an increasing fragmentation of sources of legitimacy, an accumulation of different professional requirements and a growing difficulty to distinguish professionals and non-professionals.     

When Do National Administrations Adapt to EU Policies? Variation in Denmark and Greece

This article joins the Europeanization studies and examines the administrative adaptation to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a highly institutionalized and regulated policy, in two small older member states, Denmark and Greece. The findings demonstrate variation in administrative adaptation. In Denmark, both formal and informal administrative structures adapt to CAP, while in Greece administrative adaptation is limited to formal structures. This variation is attributed to two dimensions of the domestic institutional and organizational settings, namely “centralization” and “professionalism.” The comparative analysis provides an in-depth understanding of the administrative differences between North and South—a cleavage that became prominent during the Eurozone crisis.     

A Contemporary Snapshot of Policewomen Attitudes

Historically, women have been unwelcome in male-dominated police cultures; despite the gains acquired over many tumultuous years, policewomen continue to face significant obstacles. Men officers often promote the subordination of policewomen, and, because of this, some degree of emotional deterioration among women officers would be understandable. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of such a hypothesis. Questionnaires were mailed to all municipal police departments in one southern state with 50 or more sworn personnel (n = 21) and produced 1,114 responses from 16 departments. Analysis revealed that women officers' (n = 89) professionalism, job satisfaction, stress, and confidence levels demonstrate a condition of psychological health and do not differ significantly from those of men officers. Essentially, the findings suggest that policewomen are mentally tough and resilient, and hence quite capable of modulating the demands of police careers.     

司法独立和法官职业化

本文从现代法治的核心目标“法律至上”地位和“以权制权”的建立入手,指出司法独立的重要性,并进一步阐释了司法独立的实现有赖于法官职业化的实现,进而概括了法官职业化的内容:法官的技能、法官的职业伦理,法官的自主性与自治性,法官的任职资格等及其与司法独立的关系,并从制度建构的角度对中国的法官职业化提出了一些建议。     

足球"黑哨"问题的法律探析

足球“黑哨”已成为国人瞩目的热点话题,“黑哨”行为究竟是否构成犯罪和构成什 么犯罪在法学界引起了一场不大不小的争论。笔者认为“黑哨”行为符合受贿罪的四大构成要件, 构成受贿罪。足球市场也需法律干预。     

From Criminal Law to Legal Theory: The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Glue Sniffer

The modern idea of criminal justice is organised around a series of antinomies which include the formal and the substantive, the universal and the particular, the individual and the social. This paper examines the place of these antinomies in four different but connected settings: the plight of the humane judge, the classical enlightenment theory of retributive punishment, the judgment of provoked killing, and the critique of orthodox subjectivism in the Anglo–American law. The play of the universal and the particular and the formal and substantive within law reflects and embodies the underlying antinomy of the individual and the social – even where it does not mention it.
The qualitative moment is preserved in all quantification, as the substrate of that which is to be quantified.     

试论“法官后语”

"法官后语"是附设在裁判文书规范化格式之后的一段评述性文字.是以体现人文关怀,对当事人进行劝谕、倡导、教育、警醒、告诫为主要内容.目的在于提高裁判文书法、情、理的协调统一,增强裁判文书的权威性和说服力.但是,由于"法官后语"是裁判文书改革浪潮中出现的新事物,创设历史短暂,人们知之甚少,赞许声、否定声同在,影响了"法官后语"的正确适用.为了让人们对"法官后语"有更多的了解,使其在司法实践中能充分发挥自己应有的功能.笔者对"法官后语"的含义、属性、适用范围、运用技巧进行了全面的分析论证,以起到抛砖引玉的作用.     

论量刑公正的一般标准

在近代刑法学术史上,西方国家曾经围绕报应刑论与目的刑论的对立,就刑罚价值取向和量刑公正标准量刑进行过激烈的争论:报应刑论认为"刑罚轻重应当与罪行轻重相适应",目的刑论认为"刑罚轻重应当与人身危险性相适应"。最后在两者之间形成折中主义刑罚论,认为"表明行为社会危害性和行为人人身危险性事实情况都是影响刑罚轻重的因素",此说为多数学者所赞同并为多数国家刑事立法所采纳。根据现行刑法第五条规定,我国量刑公正标准属于折中主义刑罚论,表现为"罪责刑相均衡",其精髓在于:刑罚的宽严程度应当与行为的社会危害程度以及行为人的人身危险性程度"相互适应",因此,正确处理法定刑、量刑情节与宣告刑三者之间的数量关系,是实现量刑公正的唯一途径。     

民事司法改革中法官权力之探讨

民事司法中,法官手握裁判大权,既是程序的管理者,又是裁判的决定者,其地位和作用的重要性显而易见。因此,民事司法改革中法官权力无疑是一个焦点。     

论司法公正的评判原则

司法公正是司法的核心,它是人类自有司法活动以来不懈追求的永恒主题。但如何把这一具有主观色彩的司法理念化作一个共识性的标尺,本文提出了评判原则:即合法性、程序性、相对性、效率性、专属性和终局性。这五项原则是评判司法公正的理论标准和操作尺度,是有机的统一整体。