Security policies and the weakening of personal data protection in the European Union

In recent years, the reinforcement of security policies alongside the expansion of information systems for law enforcement and crime prevention entailed growing restrictions to personal data protection principles and procedural rights in the European Union. This paper seeks to elucidate this trend, while matching it with an EU institutional discourse based on balancing and proportionality. Indeed, EU institutions regularly present security measures and fundamental rights as somewhat symmetric values to be easily conciliated through balancing and proportionality. Considering the raising of the protection of personal data to the status of a fundamental right by the Charter of Fundamental Rights, its effect on a possible rebalancing of the values at stake is discussed. Yet, we conclude, for the time being, the potential for just and democratic solutions provided by the ideas of balancing and proportionality does not appear to be properly used.     

La constitucionalización del derecho en méxico

In this essay I defend the idea that the mexican legal order has been partially constitutionalized since the amendment to the first article of the Constitution in june 2011. I argue that some conditions of a constitutionalized legal system can be found in this rule. An analysis of those conditions is carried out through the work and in the end I discuss the matter of whether this constitutional change amounts to a new legal paradigm.     

农村公安派出所推进社区警务工作的困惑与出路

随着我国各大中城市实施社区警务战略,农村社区警务改革将成为农村公安基层基础工作改革的必然趋势。科学地划分社区、建立经费保障机制、深化改革、明确职责以及依靠基层政权加强治保会建设是构建农村地区社区警务战略的关键。     

试析均势与均势功能的维持

随着近代国际体系的形成,均势原则作为一种国际关系发展的规律和政治现象日益凸显出来,并成为一支重要的国际关系理论和颇具影响力的外交战略。从本质上看,均势自然或不自然地遵循着两项命题假设,并大致形成了三种概念解释或理论假说,即状态机能说、政策动机说与权力关系说。威斯特伐利亚体系和维也纳体系作为传统均势的典型模式,从一个侧面揭示了均势理论的结构性缺陷和弊端,即所谓“制衡难题”。     

试论和谐立法中的利益衡量

和谐社会只能建立在法治基础上,和谐立法是法治社会的立法追求,是实现社会和谐的基础和保障。在现代社会中,随着社会利益结构的变迁,多元利益共生于同一场域共同争夺着稀缺的资源,面对利益冲突,现代立法的利益调控功能日显重要。和谐立法其实质是一个利益识别、利益选择、利益整合的交涉过程,当代我国和谐立法中的利益衡量应当依据一定的标准和原则。