评《侵权责任法》中的医疗损害责任

分析医疗损害责任纳入《侵权责任法》积极和消极意义的基础上,阐述了医疗纠纷的法律适用,并从解构医患法律关系入手,提出了坚持医疗纠纷中对医方宽容与对患者救济并行。构建医患法律关系的立法趋势。     

非政府组织介入WTO争端解决机制的实证分析及其利弊考量

WTO争端解决机制正式运作以来,许多非政府组织不断以向争端解决机构提交“法庭之友”陈述的方式介入到争端解决程序中来。一方面,非政府组织的介入可以提请法官注意到争端当事方可能忽略的法律、环保、人权等问题,提高裁决的质量并增强WTO的透明度;另一方面,这种介入也可能会给当事方造成额外的诉讼负担,影响裁决的效率等等。因此,如何在允许非政府组织以“法庭之友”身份介入争端解决机制的情况下做到公平与效率的平衡才是我们所要解决的根本问题。     

解决民间纠纷的立场定位与路径选择——从两则案例说起

民间纠纷的解决影响到我国法治的建设与和谐社会的构建。解决民间纠纷应当根据现代法治的精神和理念,兼顾社会的复杂性和“地方知识”的特殊性,通过国家法和民间法的理性沟通实现二者在解决民间纠纷中的妥协、让步、合作与支持,建立起多元化的纠纷解决机制。     

浅议农村土地补偿费分配纠纷的受案范围

近年来,土地补偿费分配问题导致的农村基层纠纷日益成为法律冲突中的焦点,司法机关如何在尊重农村集体经济组织分配自主权与保护农民合法权益之间进行取舍,也日益成为难点。其中,法院应否受理农村土地补偿费分配纠纷,由于法律法规的规定不尽明确,司法解释亦不一致,导致不同地域法院的受理情况各不相同。根据最高人民法院有关农村土地补偿费分配纠纷案件的最新司法解释,目前可从补偿费用分配纠纷的内涵和民事法律关系两个角度,来分别确定该类纠纷的受案范围。     

越南劳动争议处理法律制度初探

越南是东盟重要的成员国之一,自古以来,其法律制度一直受到中国法律文化的影响,但由于国情的差异。越南现行的劳动争议处理制度体现出强烈的民族性和区域性特点,形式上结构严谨、体例科学,内容上考虑全面、与时俱进。作为邻邦,越南劳动争议处理法律制度的某些方面值得我们借鉴,以促进我国的法制建设。     

Dimensions of Chinese foreign conflict and cooperation: A research note

Key mediation attributes, such as mediating actors, the strategy they choose, and previous mediation experiences, are widely thought to influence the nature of a conflict management outcome. But how and when these features shape outcomes is not a straightforward matter, and a standard analysis of these factors does not lead to their widely anticipated results. Why? We develop a new analytical framework that argues that a dispute's intensity alters the conflict management processes. Furthermore, in order to observe this variation, we also need to expand the traditional, dichotomous notion of conflict management outcomes (success or failure) to include a fuller range of observed results. Using the most recent International Conflict Management data set and our new analytical framework, we analyze the effect on conflict management outcome of mediator (a) identity, (b) strategy and (c) history. We find that directive strategies and international mediators are effective in resolving high intensity conflicts, procedural strategies and regional mediators are effective in resolving low intensity conflicts, and that mediation history always affects resolution. Our results have implications for both the study and practice of international dispute mediation.     

Mediation Research: A Current Review

In this article, we review the mediation literature from the past decade, utilizing a cybernetic mediation paradigm to organize the material. In this paradigm, we note that the type of conflict, country, culture, and mediation institutions affect the mediation process. Within this process, the mediator and disputants interact with each other, attempting to reach their own goals. This interaction produces outcomes for the disputants, the mediators, and other parties. The literature — organized using this paradigm — indicates that mediation is frequently practiced in many venues; the literature also provides an exhaustive list of mediation goals, describes many mediation strategies, and reports manifold mediation outcomes. Unfortunately, the number of studies examining the relative effectiveness of specific strategies (e.g., pressing, relational, and analytic) seems insufficient. Few studies have used control groups or reported observations of mediator and disputants' behavior in actual mediations.     

Cultivating Dialogue: From Fragmentation to Relationality in Conflict Interaction

This article builds on the tendency in recent decades in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to analyze conflict and its transformation from a relational perspective. It surveys developments in twentieth‐century philosophy that support the ongoing quest to explore the self in ADR from a relational perspective. It then shows how the concept of dialogue provides a framework for understanding conflict transformation from a relational perspective, by exploring the relational foundations of dialogue. It also draws a connection between the growing use of mindfulness practices in conflict settings and the practice of dialogue, suggesting that Buddhist philosophy and practices can help cultivate relational awareness and dialogue. The article therefore suggests that incorporating dialogue and exploring its relational characteristics can assist ADR scholars and practitioners to develop further practices that can promote collaboration by shifting disputants from adversarial and fragmented orientations to more relational mindsets.     

Today was not a good day: offender accounts of the incidents that led to their admission to drug court

One method that has been touted to help end mass incarceration is using intermediate sanctions. While intermediate sanctions often present as attractive options, there is evidence that as practiced, these sanctions often result in net widening. One of the most common forms of intermediate sanctions are drug courts, which are often viewed as progressive alternatives to locking up people with substance abuse problems. However, along with the dangers of net widening, scholars have shown that many people admitted to drug courts do not seem to have substance abuse problems and could benefit from lesser criminal justice interventions. In the current study, we analyzed intake data from a drug court to determine: (1) what charge(s) drug participants had and (2) how they became involved with the criminal justice system. Among important findings were that a large number of drug court participants were arrested for the possession of one drug only (often marijuana) and that more than half of participants came to the attention of the criminal justice system through a traffic stop rather than through repeated encounters with the criminal justice system.     

工会参与群体劳动争议处理的法律保障

群体劳动争议因其争议主体的集体性和组织性、争议内容的多元性和争议手段的集体对抗性而内在地需要工会作为劳方代表参与争议解决。然而,在行政主导的争议处理机制下,忽视了规范化的制度建设,工会的角色定位不明晰,再加上工会自身存在较大缺陷,集体劳动关系协调机制与群体劳动争议解决机制不衔接,造成了工会难以参与群体劳动争议处理的困境。因此,需要完善相关制度,确立三方机制的处理方式,明确工会在群体劳动争议处理中的法律地位,制定工会参与的具体形式、条件和程序,克服工会自身缺陷,构建群体劳动争议解决机制与集体劳动关系协调机制对接制度。