新形势下政治文明建设实现路径的再认识——以落实人民当家做主为重点

新形势下建设社会主义政治文明,是人的发展和时代进步的必然要求。对政治文明建设中人民当家做主的实现路径的新思考,在于更好地确立和保障人民当家做主的权利,促进中国特色社会主义政治文明建设的健康发展。     

论马克思主义中国化视域下的科学发展观

科学发展观是建设中国特色社会主义必须坚持和贯彻的重大战略思想，是对中国共产党三代中央领导集体关于发展的思想理论的继承和发展，科学发展观是马克思主义中国化的必然产物，是马克思主义中国化的最新理论成果，是对马克思主义的坚持、继承、发展和创新，科学发展观开拓了马克思主义中国化的新境界。     

Justifying Punishment: A Response to Douglas Husak

In ‘Why Criminal Law: A Question of Content?’, Douglas Husak argues that an analysis of the justifiability of the criminal law depends upon an analysis of the justifiability of state punishment. According to Husak, an adequate justification of state punishment both must show why the state is permitted to infringe valuable rights such as the right not to be punished and must respond to two distinct groups of persons who may demand a justification for the imposition of punishment, namely, individuals subjected to punishment and the society asked to support the institution of punishment. In this discussion, I analyse Husak’s account of the right not to be punished with an eye to showing that the parameters of that right do not extend to the cases that would make it controversial. I also consider two other distinct groups of persons who have equal standing to alleged offenders and society to demand justification for the imposition of state punishment, namely, direct victims of crimes and criminal justice officials.     

论经济法学语境中的“经济国家”

经济国家是指国家受经济属性的嵌入与公私融合的驱动,超越单纯的政治主权组织而成为经济、社会发展的内生因素与主导力量,在促进经济、社会发展的同时亦引发自身的组织及行为变革。于实践而言,经济国家的发轫与勃兴乃是中国经济和社会成功转轨的根本所在,中国经济法的成长也正是得益于契合了经济国家对法律调整的需求。于经济法学理论而言,经济国家的提出代表着一种以经济与社会实践为根本、以增强经济法学理论解释力为核心的实践性总论研究进路。     

POSTAL 2 plays in US court - Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association

In an unprecedented legal development, the case of violence in video games has now reached the highest American court. The US Supreme Court is set to decide whether states can restrict minors from buying violent video games in the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The decision could have serious implications on the future of First Amendment rights and children’s ’welfare. To resolve Schwarzenegger, the Justices will need to decide how much First Amendment protection should be extended to violent video games and whether minors have a greater constitutional right to violence than they do to obscenity.     

从多层次到多支柱:养老保障体系改革再思考

在对多层次养老保险体系反思的基础上,从多支柱理论和我国现实国情出发,构建了以多支柱为核心特征的养老保障体系。零支柱:以低收入者和农民为对象的普惠制国民养老金,旨在防止老年贫困。第一支柱:以正式就业者为对象,由基本养老保险社会统筹部分改造而来的基本养老金,目标在于保障就业者退休后的基本生活,突出社会再分配。第二支柱:以正式就业者为对象,由基本养老保险个人账户部分和企业年金计划合并而来的职业年金计划,使退休职工生活水平比单一的第一支柱有所改善,同时有助于应对老龄化危机。第三支柱:自愿性的个人养老储蓄计划,为有较高需求的高收入者提供的更高层次的保护。     

试析我国刑事被害人补偿制度

从国家层面分析,国家救济体系是指基于法律、政策的保障,对遭受破坏的社会秩序的恢复,其目的旨在填补社会成员遭受侵害之后合法权益的损失。在上述由国家财力支持的救济体系中,刑事被害人救济制度则主要将帮扶对象限定为遭受犯罪侵害的刑事被害人,是指由国家主导并有统一立法,以缓解刑事被害人因受犯罪行为侵害而遭受到的困难、抚慰其精神创伤、减轻其合法权益所受到的损失为主要目的的救济制度。出于我国当前刑事被害人的巨大基数及保护现状,及早完善立法有着现实的必要性。     

Welfare Reform and the Shifting Threshold of Support for Disabled People

Among the highly significant changes to the benefits system made by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 is provision for a new disability benefit, personal independence payment (PIP). PIP is replacing disability living allowance (DLA), received by three million people, as the principal form of state financial support towards disability‐related care and mobility costs for those of working age. The legislation, including regulations prescribing a new disability assessment framework, plays its traditional role in this field of rationing access to benefit and directing front‐line policy implementation. This article examines how, in the context of the Coalition government's welfare reforms, PIP shifts the threshold of entitlement for people with disabilities and it assesses PIP's potential impact on equality and the right to independent living, to whose realisation disability benefits may be expected to contribute significantly. It also considers the impact on disabled people of other relevant reforms, including the controversial ‘bedroom tax’.     

跨国诉讼追索流失文物的法律困境——基于查巴德诉俄罗斯政府案的分析

追索流失文化遗产的国际实践由来已久,其中通过诉讼的途径进行追索,但通常的诉讼途径为原文化财产来源国在文化市场国内对个人或团体提起诉讼,而在查巴德（Chabad）案中,俄罗斯作为文化财产的来源国却被迫参与到诉讼中,而其所依据的国有化法案却成为文化财产返还的障碍.诉讼结束后,俄罗斯拒绝对法院的判决予以执行,直接导致了两国在文化和外交上的冷战.本文以查巴德案为视角,分析在跨国追索流失文物案件中最突出的两个问题——国家的管辖权与判决的执行问题,并对诉讼以外的其他追索途径进行述评,以期为我国境外文物追索提供借鉴.     

十六大以来中国特色社会主义文化发展道路研究述评

中共十六大以来,学术界围绕着"中国特色社会主义文化发展道路"这一重要命题作了系列研究,并取得了一定的成果。对这些研究成果进行梳理与回顾,不难发现,学界对"中国特色社会主义文化发展道路"这一命题的研究主要是围绕着"中国特色社会主义文化发展道路"的形成基础、基本内涵、探索历程、重要意义、主要成就及经验、如何深入发展中国特色社会主义文化等几个维度进行展开的。所有的这些研究,对于我们深刻认识与理解中国特色社会主义文化发展道路,开展社会主义文化建设,朝着文化强国的伟大战略目标迈进等具有重要的理论与现实指导意义,但进一步展望之,仍有许多值得深入研究的问题,需要学界相关人士进一步拓宽研究视野。