Jurisdiction problems regarding Internet torts: Critical remarks

As the facts that led to the Dow Jones/Gutnick-decision of the High Court of Australia (10 December 2002) illustrate, the Internet is a powerful platform for communication. Its continuous worldwide accessibility urges discussion of a number of questions regarding tort jurisdiction. These are the starting points for some critical remarks regarding states' reciprocal claims to cross-border activities and the way in which they deal with the interests of the involved parties. For tort jurisdiction, the paper proposes and applies criteria for the assessment of the place where the harmful event has occurred or may occur (art. 5, subsection 3 Regulation 44/2001), as explained by the European Court of Justice of the European Union. Special attention is hereby given to some particularities that characterize Internet torts. On the one hand it concerns the alleged global assignment of jurisdiction that art. 5, subsection 3 may lead to and on the other hand the scope of the assigned jurisdiction in the court of the place where the damage occurs. The European approach is confronted with the principles of personal jurisdiction that are embedded in long arm statutes and the Due Process Clause, as applied in some leading American cases regarding Internet jurisdiction. It leads to suggestions regarding the development of a marginal test for the reasonableness of the jurisdiction art. 5, subsection 3 could lead to in a particular case, as well from the point of view of the weight of the connecting factor as to the scope of the jurisdiction that is based upon it.     

警务社会化路径之非政府组织初探——从公共物品理论的视角

公安机关提供法律保障、社会秩序维持和公共服务三种劳务产品,从公共物品属性及供给的角度分析看,公共服务具备准公共物品的特性,可以通过采用自愿供给,即非政府组织供给的方式。非政府组织成为警务社会化主体不仅可以推进警务社会化的进程、提高公安机关的工作效率,而且可以和谐警民关系、缓解警力不足的压力,并促进社会治安防控体系的构建。     

论涉外动产物权的法律适用

本文探讨了涉外动产物权适用物之所在地法的历史沿革、适用范围及几种特殊动产物权的法律适用 ,指出从我国的实际情况出发 ,并借鉴其他国家的立法 ,应建立我国动产物权适用物之所在地法原则。     

Education and training in public administration: transference of segmenting organizational behavior

Organizations can survive, let alone progress, only if they carry out meaningful transactions with society at large. This process requires they differentiate their “organizational being” to respond to clientele needs and/or user demands. The inherent problem is that these differentiated structures may become segmented into tightly closed systems, being in effect organizations within organization characterized by self-serving vested interests. Expediency becomes the operating rule. Segmentation is common to all societies, but it is especially prevalent in situations of decline.

Advanced in this discussion is that the segmentation process may be accelerated and consolidated by in-house training and education, and especially by those of a public management character. A plea is made for universities to become more actively engaged in (a) the preparation and placement of “quality” educated persons and (b) the search/development of new public organization.     

The Economy of China

Evidence suggests that following liberalisation reforms in India, public sector contributions to social development projects responsible for public goods allocation and the provision of services have receded in favour of an enlarged role for private sector initiatives, particularly through public-private partnerships. As part of a “good governance” agenda, the state is embracing such partnerships, modelled on information communication technology (ICT), within a wider development strategy (ICTD) to improve goods allocation and government's image as a trustworthy agent. This has also coincided with a changing political economy that has granted greater authority to more localised units of government over economic and developmental processes. This paper examines a case study of Urban e-Seva, an ICTD public-private partnership in Hyderabad, and couches it in a larger examination of contemporary social development in India. The paper concludes that government needs to be embedded in public-private partnerships, that it must continue to be at the forefront of allocation strategies in general, and that globalisation is strongly shaped by public institutions operating at the sub-national level. Furthermore, reforms are needed to correct for globalisation and liberalisation's inabilities to foster proper social development in India.     

民间借贷规制的范式选择

民间借贷在当前存在外延泛化的现象,有丛要对其外延进行重新界定。民间借贷在我国的兴起有其特定的原因和经济背景,对我国经济产生了较大的影响。我国当前对民间借贷的法律规制存在规范过多、体系繁杂、位阶冲突等情况。对民间借贷法律规制的范式选择,不应采取单独立法的形式,应在现有金融体制下,清理相关法律规范,采取突出重点的规制方法。具体制度设计上可以从民间借贷放贷主体的准入、放贷资金来源、借贷利率管制、借贷地域范围限制等四个方面进行规范。     

“公共服务”界说

本文系统梳理了国内外界定"公共服务"的方式,揭示和分析了"公共服务"概念界定过程中存在的理论、路径和逻辑问题,主张超越西方经济学通过界定物品的特性理解公共服务特性的思维逻辑,以政治学、法学、经济学等学科的基本原理为基础,运用公共管理的逻辑和视角思考问题,从多角度科学界定公共服务。     

多方合作与共赢:提高农村社区公共品供给能力之路

本文就我国农村社区公共品供给主体、范围和特点进行了讨论,分析了目前农村社区公共品供给状况、问题及原因。本文认为,增加农村社区公共品供给,仅靠政府财政供给,或者完全由农民承担,都是不现实的;需要各方通力合作,提高供给能力,达到共赢的目的。为此,需要明确政府对农村社区公共品供给职责,完善合作供给机制,大力发展农村社区非营利组织,培养志愿者精神,建立健全法律制度。     

公共治理视野中的公共物品供给

公共治理既是对传统公共行政范式的替代 ,也是社会科学跨学科研究、多学科发展相互融合的产物。它的最大特征在于 ,它是对传统政府统治理论的超越。它强调多元主体的治理和治理方式的多样化。以公共治理为视角对公共物品领域存在的问题及改革进行深入探讨颇有意义。其结论是 ,打破公共物品政府提供的垄断局面 ,实行公共物品多元主体、多种方式提供 ,这对提高和改善公共物品供给的数量和质量具有积极意义。     

论城市社区治理法律框架的法域定位

文章首先分析了社区的定义、域定位以及相应的法律框架的法域定位问题;其次,简要评析了现行社区治理法律框架的法域归属,指出其公法主导的精神实质。在此基础上,结合对时下流行的几种社区治理法律框架构建思路及其法域定位的分析评价,提出了构建私法主导性的社区治理法律框架的新思路。