进一步完善消费者协会调解的对策措施研究

消费者协会调解对于构建和谐社会、创建多元化纠纷解决机制、保护消费者权益具有重要意义。从实践效果来看,消协调解发挥了重要作用,同时也存在着一些问题。为了更好地实现消协调解的价值,应从提高消协调解人员的素质、增强消协调解与其他纠纷解决机制的衔接、提高消费者的维权意识、赋予调解协议一定的法律约束力、营造诚实守信的社会氛围等方面,对消协调解进行完善。     

论农民宪法权利平等保护的国家义务

农民宪法权利的完美实现必须以国家义务的合法有效履行为前提和核心。从横向上看,与农民宪法权利的多重权能面向相对应,国家对其依次负有尊重、保护和给付的宪法义务;从纵向上看,以上任何国家义务的履行都必须以平等保护为其核心议题。实现农民宪法权利的平等保护,国家不仅要树立“以人为本”、“公平至上”的宪法理念,同时还必须在此基础上设计出具体的平等保护路径。     

极穷权边界的限定性研究——以一则震区哄抢事件为例说明

震区哄抢事件引发了公众对于灾民哄抢行为罪与非罪界定的讨论,紧急避险和权利冲突理论告诉我们极穷状态下的哄抢行为并非犯罪,因为此时对生命的尊重与保障处于最为优先的地位,而划清罪与非罪界限的关键节点则在于对极穷权的边界进行限定。     

保障流动人口合法权益 促进厦门和谐社会建设

随着厦门市经济发展和社会进步,流动人口劳工总量呈稳步上升之势.虽然厦门市在保障流动人口权益、促进厦门和谐社会建设方面取得了显著成绩,但还存在着一些问题,为此应采取措施,保障流动人口合法权益,促进和谐社会建设.     

Protect Our Children: Vaccination Exemptions Can Establish Child Abuse and Neglect

The need to protect public health has increased as the anti‐vaccine movement is on the rise. Exemptions to vaccination requirements have become more lax, and parents find ways to avoid vaccinating their children, thereby exposing not only their children to the dangers of serious diseases, but other children as well. This Note proposes a federal statute mandating that parents subject their children between the ages of infancy and 6 to acquire vaccinations for all diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unless a licensed physician recommends otherwise.     

Maintaining the Legal Status of People with Intellectual Disabilities as Parents: The ADA and the CRPD

People with intellectual disabilities face proceedings to terminate their parental rights with disturbing regularity, with protecting the interests of offspring the primary justification. Although protecting children from harm is surely critical, these termination proceedings involve problematic assumptions about how fitness to parent is understood, how parenting is legally constructed, and what nondiscrimination requires for parents with intellectual disabilities. Using Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a model, it suggests two alternatives to the all‐or‐nothing termination processes in place today that might better realize the enjoyment of legal capacity as parents on an equal basis with others for people with intellectual disabilities: limited terminations analogous to limited guardianships and supported parenting along the lines of supported decision making proposed in the CRPD.     

An Improved Protection for the (Mentally Ill) Trans Parent: A Queer Reading of AP,Garçon and Nicot v France

The European Court of Human Rights has been deciding cases concerning LGBT rights since the early 1980s. Its case law on trans rights has changed drastically over time, imposing upon the states of the Council of Europe certain minimum standards regarding the legal recognition of gender identity. In its recent judgment of April 2017 the Court laid down a new rule to be adopted by domestic legislation; namely, that the legal recognition of gender transition cannot be made conditional upon pursuing medical or surgical procedures which have (or are likely to have) sterilising effects. This article analyses the judgment from a critical perspective grounded in queer theory, noting both the positive and the negative elements of the Court's decision.     

Protecting Free Speech and Academic Freedom in Universities

Restrictions on speaking events in universities have been created both by recent student‐led efforts at ‘no‐platforming’ and by Part 5 of the Counter‐terrorism and Security Act 2015 which placed aspects of the government's Prevent strategy on a statutory basis. The statutory Prevent duty in universities includes, under the accompanying Guidance, curbing or monitoring events that could have an impact in drawing persons into terrorism. This article places the combined impact of Part 5 and student‐led curbs on campus speech in context by juxtaposing pre‐existing restrictions with the various free speech duties of universities. Focusing on speaking events, it evaluates the resulting state of free speech and academic freedom in universities. It finds potential violations of established free speech norms due to the impact of pre‐emptive strikes against some campus‐linked speech articulating non‐mainstream viewpoints. But it also argues that not all such speech has a strong foundation within such norms.     

Children's Rights and the Politics of Food: Big Food Versus Little People

This article traces the battle in the United States during the Obama administration, continuing into the Trump administration, to protect children's rights to food. It explores barriers to development of sound, science‐based food policies, including the refusal to recognize food as a human right, anti‐science denialism, hostility toward government regulation, and relative powerlessness of children. It points to the role of a “Big Food Pyramid” composed of powerful food industry and large scale distribution and marketing interests in blocking sound policies in prenatal and infant nutrition, school lunches, SNAP and WIC, the marketing to children of high fat and fructose‐laden products, and campaigns to increase youth fitness. While predicting a continuing assault at the federal level on children's rights to safe and healthy foods, the article highlights the positive role of consumer demand in shaping marketing, labeling and production of food and opportunities for leaders in the food industry and in government at local, municipal and state levels to continue the battle for sound food policies.