对刑事附带民事诉讼中原告与被告资格的认定

刑事附带民事诉讼兼具刑事诉讼、民事诉讼的特征,这是认定刑事附带民事诉讼的原告和被告资格的基本前提。同时,考虑到民事赔偿的本质,对特殊主体应当具体分析其在案件中所处的情况,进而确定其诉讼地位。     

论附随义务

附随义务是一项基于诚实信用原则发展起来的制度,其体现了正义和安全的法律价值。在各国的立法中均体现了附随义务,但是并不完善。我国的附随义务也仍有缺陷,需要在合同法中提高附随义务的地位,扩展附随义务的内容,完善附随义务的救济方式。     

超市自助寄存法律性质研究——基于合同法的视角

作为人工寄存方式的替代方式,超市自助寄存有其自身特点,其法律问题也有其特殊性。自助寄存柜的设置对于超市而言不是基于买卖合同的附随义务,而是与消费者之间的一种合同。进而言之,它属于保管合同而非借用合同。     

合同履行中违反附随义务的法律效果

文章讨论了合同履行过程中违反附随义务的形态、责任构成、具体承担方式等方面的内容,结合国内外的立法经验与判例,重新审视了在合同履行中违反附随义务可能存在的不同法律效果,并提出了我国合同法应采纳包括采取补救措施、解除合同和损害赔偿等在内的主要责任承担方式。     

试论刑事附带民事诉讼剥离刑事诉讼的必然性

刑事附带民事诉讼本质上是一种民事诉讼 ,与刑事案件合并审理 ,不符合现代诉讼理念。英美法系国家分立刑事和民事诉讼 ,以及附带民事诉讼制度在大陆法系国家立法和司法实践中的萎缩 ,均说明最佳选择是将其从刑事诉讼中剥离出去 ,归并到民事诉讼中。     

ASSOCIATIONS OF FATHERS' HISTORY OF INCARCERATION WITH SONS' DELINQUENCY AND ARREST AMONG BLACK,WHITE, AND HISPANIC MALES IN THE UNITED STATES*

Nearly 13 percent of young adult men report that their biological father has served time in jail or prison; yet surprisingly little research has examined how a father's incarceration is associated with delinquency and arrest in the contemporary United States. Using a national panel of Black, White, and Hispanic males, this study examines whether experiencing paternal incarceration is associated with increased delinquency in adolescence and young adulthood. We find a positive association with paternal incarceration that is robust to controls for several structural, familial, and adolescent characteristics. Relative to males not experiencing a father's incarceration, our results show that those experiencing a father's incarceration have an increased propensity for delinquency that persists into young adulthood. Using a national probability sample, we also find that a father's incarceration is highly and significantly associated with an increased risk of incurring an adult arrest before 25 years of age. These observed associations are similar across groups of Black, White, and Hispanic males. Taken as a whole, our findings suggest benefits from public policies that focus on male youth “at risk” as a result of having an incarcerated father.     

The price that US minority communities pay: mass incarceration and the ideologies that fuel them

Mass incarceration of minorities has generated alarming attention. This concern is a result of the massive social injustice perpetrated by the ideologies that force mental and physical imprisonment on the poor. The outcome of this social injustice generates punitive inequalities that become entrenched in US social experiences. Once incarcerated, an individual carries a permanent label that brands him/her as an eternal ‘criminal’ and deactivates him/her from mainstream society. This translates into exclusion from responsible educational and occupational participation. Disadvantaged members of minority groups caught in this unforgiving social imprisonment often turn to the underground economy, which, unfortunately, increases the possibility of arrest, or re-arrest. The imprisoning ideology that stereotypes the disadvantaged community, leads to increased incarceration, hypersegregation, social abandonment, and creates a theater for venomous law enforcement practices. The impact of mass incarceration and the ideologies that sustain them on disadvantaged minority communities is the focus of this examination.     

The theory of value and the value of theory — a reply to Cutler et al.

Abstract

Serving as a pledge against a future promise, collateral has traditionally been understood as a ‘back office’ technicality that reduces the risk of default. Yet in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the erosion of faith among market participants in the credit quality of large banks, collateral is playing an increasingly important epistemic role within finance, as an anchor that underpins the valuation of a growing number of financial instruments. This paper explores the increasing importance of collateral to the modelling practices used by ‘quants’ to value ‘over-the-counter’ interest rate derivatives since the 2008 financial crisis, and how the inclusion of collateral expertise into quants’ own modelling practices has affected these markets. This historical episode suggests that while the inclusion of collateral expertise into banks’ front office modelling practices has made banks’ pricing models less abstract and more aligned to the traditionally overlooked legal practices that underpin derivatives trading, it has also led to an explosion of complexity in the valuation of these instruments that now threatens the future existence of these markets.     

刑事附带民事诉讼对被害人救助的不足及解决路径

刑事法律制度缺乏对刑事被害人的充分关注。刑事附带民事诉讼制度并未充分发挥保障刑事被害人合法权益的作用。虽然刑事和解制度在一定程度上缓解了刑事被害人获得赔偿的问题,但囿于刑事和解的适用范围,遭受严重伤害的刑事被害人的赔偿仍存在较大困难。且在媒体报道案件的过程中,往往侧重关注犯罪人,忽略被害人,从而加大了社会大众对被害人救助的不确定性。故此,应当探索和完善刑事被害人救助制度,以形成对刑事附带民事诉讼制度的有益补充,以为将来刑事诉讼法正式确认刑事被害人的求偿权作出有益的探索。