Extreme versus quotidian: addressing temporal dichotomies in Philippine disaster management

Brief narratives of two recent events in Luzon island—a flashflood in Angeles City and an eruption of Mayon volcano—underscore the disparity between natural hazards as amplifiers of everyday hardship for many Filipinos and the Philippine disaster management system's orientation towards extreme‐event response. Three major factors contribute to this dichotomy. First, population dynamics combined with the lack of access to resources compels poor Filipinos to live and work in hazardous areas, discounting risk from extreme natural events to focus on daily needs. Second, the institutional setting of the country's disaster management within the military establishment makes it difficult, though not impossible, to focus and address the underlying causes of vulnerability. Third, existing modes of funding disaster expenditures are all biased towards immediate response rather than long‐term risk‐reduction. The implications of these findings to disaster management and research in the Philippines are identified. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

先秦文学作品中女性形象的美学探讨

先秦时期的女性美学观对后世有着极其深刻的影响，是后世女性形象研究的第一块重要基石。本文首先从女神系列入手，探讨女性美意识的产生和发展，其次从作品中女性典型形象入手，探讨先秦时期女性美的内涵，以期能全面展示人类早期对女性美各个方面的初步认识。     

自然人民事权利能力制度之反思

自然人的民事权利能力在不同的时代具有不同的特征,在不同的国家有不同的内容。因此,各国民法无不在实质上通过各种不同的表达和案例实践总结出关于自然人权利能力的内容。相比之下,大陆法系对自然人民事权利能力的理解更具特色。本文论点主要建立在大陆法系中自然人民事权利能力的理论之上,并结合我国关于自然人民事权利能力的理论探讨和现状来反思自然人权利能力的内涵,试图为我国民事主体理论体系的完善提供有益的探讨视角。     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Dean Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society
Lahav Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
Lubman Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao     

环境公益诉讼的另类视角:自然物种诉讼

自然权利的讨论必然要反映在对诉讼法的冲击上,即是否考虑自然物种对其所享有的权利而具有诉讼资格以及如何实现他们的诉权等。这导致美国、日本的法院进行了一些审判上的尝试。虽然自然物种诉讼在理论上还需要法理学和诉讼法学的突破,在实践中还处于探索状态,但自然物种诉讼在环境公益的保护上仍然具有重要的意义。自然物种诉讼的基本框架包括:自然物种诉讼是公益诉讼的一种表现形式;自然物种诉讼要在赋予自然物种诉讼资格和防止恶意诉讼之间保证一种平衡;自然物种诉讼的实施机制是代物诉讼。     

自然人人格的伦理解读——兼论德国民法典人文主义的价值起点

德国民法典是以权利为本位的法,人格是民法典的价值源泉和逻辑起点,民法典的人文主义价值是以自然人人格的概念为技术中介而贯穿到整个法典之始终,以历史的视角,对自然人人格内涵作出动态考察,侧重对德国民法典赖以存在的精神基础--康德的伦理人格主义哲学作出分析是,并对自然人人格所承载的价值作出阐释,主张我国民法典的制定对此应当予以借鉴.     

俄罗斯与东北亚天然气合作

俄罗斯是世界天然气资源最为丰富的国家,其远东和西伯利亚占全俄土地面积的3/5,地处东北亚。东北亚是21世纪天然气消费增长的主要地区,同时又是能源相对短缺的地区;东北亚国家俄罗斯、中国、日本、韩国、朝鲜在天然气资源、资金、技术、劳务方面有很强的互补性,具备合作条件。但因为还存在一些问题,所以长期以来东北亚天然气合作的进展并不顺利。     

THE CALM AFTER THE STORM: USING MEDIATION TO RESOLVE PARENTING DISPUTES IN THE WAKE OF NATURAL DISASTERS

Hurricane Katrina not only tore apart communities along the Gulf Coast, it displaced hundreds of thousands of families throughout the country. Included in the massive numbers of displaced families were children from divorced, separated, or unmarried parents. As a result, many children have since relocated far away from one of their parents without court permission, causing an influx of parenting disputes among the unmarried parents. Litigation concerning parenting disputes that follow natural disasters is not only expensive, but is emotionally taxing on both parents and children and floods the already drained court system. This Note discusses alternative ways in which parenting disputes can be resolved following natural disasters. It explains how children are affected by relocating away from one of their parents and how those effects are comounded by natural disasters. Further, it explains how alternative dispute resolution methods help alleviate the effects of parenting disputes, specifically relocation disputes, on children. Finally, this Note proposes that all parents should be mandated to mediate any parenting disputes following natural disasters.     

自然法复兴与纽伦堡审判

拉德布鲁赫终身信守其法律概念并无改变,只不过不同时期其所强调法律价值的着重点不同而已,并无所谓从古典实证分析法学到古典自然法的转向。同样,新自然法不过是对19世纪以来过于强调实证法而忽略法的内在价值的一种矫正,是传统实证分析法学和古典自然法学的一个折衷。历史表明纽伦堡审判受到了自然法复兴的影响,其审判过程可以看做是对新自然法精神的最好注解:自然法不再是一个法律体系中具体的高出实在法的存在。它指的是一种方法,一种判断实在法的标准。     

海域物权的法律属性研究及立法模式选择

随着社会形势的发展变化，海域事实上已经逐渐取得了类似于土地的不动产地位。因此，需要对传统民法的物权理论进行革新：注重自然资源物权与传统物权的协调；对物权客体特定性的含义进行重新定位；对自然资源物权进行类型化分析；海域物权与土地物权并列，都应受民事立法和特别立法的共同规范。宪法中应明确规定海域资源的法律地位，物权法也应对海域物权的基本问题做出规定，并通过专门立法来协调在海域物权中的公益与私益冲突。