关于测谎技术作为侦查手段运用的立法思考

测谎判断受施测人员、测谎设备、受测者和测谎环境等多因素影响,测谎技术对于案件侦破的积极作用有赖于运用的科学性和规范性。目前,建立测谎法制非常必要,法律规制内容应包括测谎人员的资格与地位、测谎机关、测谎实施的一般原则、测谎的适用范围和条件、测谎对象和操作程序,以及测谎结果的法律效力。     

论抵押权的独立化运动

抵押权的附随性为抵押的传统属性,但抵押权独立化已成为明显的趋势。在抵押权的独立进程上,可依抵押权独立性由低到高将其分成三种形态,最终抵押权获得完整意义上的独立。抵押权的独立化是经济动因决定的法运动,有客观必然性,我国应跟进。     

我国管理层收购现象透视

伴随着我国证券市场上非流通股股权转让的火暴 ,管理层作为我国企业并购的一种新形式 ,开始走上前台。但我国的管理层收购与西方的典型的管理层收购在运作方式和形成背景上却存在着显著的差别。而且在我国管理层收购的实施过程中也存在着诸多令人关注的问题。对此 ,我们应当有较为清醒的认识 ,方可对其进行有效的引导和规制     

论中国高等教育体制的创新

中国高等教育体制的创新之路,首先,教育部门应具有办学的自主权,政府办学的体制必须改革;其次,适应市场经济的需要,大力推行走社会办学之路;最后,调整办学结构,使各种类型的学校各按其位,办特色学校,以特色取胜。     

有害废物越境转移对传统国家责任的挑战

保护环境、防止污染的跨界损害已成为国际社会的共同利益和共同责任。为有效防止有害废物的越境转移 ,须对传统的国家责任进行重新界定 ,在“相对主权原则”基础上 ,通过导入严格责任、补充国家赔偿责任、确立国家责任承担主体、承担附随义务等途径 ,以弥补传统理论的局限 ,适应环境保护及国际法发展的趋势     

让与担保在我国物权法中的地位

在大陆法系一些国家的物权制度中,让与担保制度是一种由学说和判例发展起来的、以习惯法和特殊法的形态存在的担保制度,它在传统大陆法系的物权体系中很难准确定位。在我国物权立法中,无论是从动产还是不动产的担保制度来分析,现有的担保制度、现实的社会信用状况以及商业实践都在证明:中国的物权立法不存在建立让与担保制度的需求。     

论转型期产权转移与企业成长的良性互动

中国企业的产权转移是政府以企业产权为对象进行"产权转移交易"、以增强政府治理能力的一个过程.民间主体充分利用这一特殊的交易机制,不仅获得了企业产权,同时也实现了企业扩张.在政府启动了最初的产权转移进程以后,企业获得迅速扩张的机会,企业的扩张又为更大规模的产权交易提供了可能.中国企业在20多年间发生了深刻转变,这样的制度变迁基本上是在与企业经营直接相关的企业领导人、政府和企业职工的利益博弈中实现的.     

Reviving the Kansai cotton industry: engineering expertise and knowledge sharing in the early Meiji period

This article analyses the acquisition and application of new cotton spinning technologies in Japan in the early Meiji period, and the ways in which this knowledge helped to mobilise existing resources of human and financial capital. It focusses on the early development of three pioneering firms, the Hirano, Amagasaki and Settsu companies, all of which after 1918 became part of Dainihon Spinning, one of the ‘Big Three’ textile firms of prewar Japan. By looking at the ways in which these companies diffused technical and other expertise, secured finance, and addressed the problems that had confounded earlier initiatives, it shows how technological knowhow from outside the Osaka region was a key factor that enabled the mobilisation of the capital and expertise of business and personal networks in Kansai, and in the process rebuilt the region's traditional predominance in cotton production, laying the foundations for the industry's global competitiveness.     

Location privacy: The challenges of mobile service devices

Adding to the current debate, this article focuses on the personal data and privacy challenges posed by private industry's use of smart mobile devices that provide location-based services to users and consumers. Directly relevant to personal data protection are valid concerns about the collection, retention, use and accessibility of this kind of personal data, in relation to which a key issue is whether valid consent is ever obtained from users. While it is indisputable that geo-location technologies serve important functions, their potential use for surveillance and invasion of privacy should not be overlooked. Thus, in this study we address the question of how a legal regime can ensure the proper functionality of geo-location technologies while preventing their misuse. In doing so, we examine whether information gathered from geo-location technologies is a form of personal data, how it is related to privacy and whether current legal protection mechanisms are adequate. We argue that geo-location data are indeed a type of personal data. Not only is this kind of data related to an identified or identifiable person, it can reveal also core biographical personal data. What is needed is the strengthening of the existing law that protects personal data (including location data), and a flexible legal response that can incorporate the ever-evolving and unknown advances in technology.     

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal's feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening “on the ground” at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.