The state of public discourse in Kenya’s post-Moi era: Where are Kenya’s organic intellectuals?

One of the defining moments in Kenya’s political landscape was the defeat of KANU, the party that had been in power since the country’s independence in 1963, by the National Rainbow Coalition, NARC in 2002. The victory was hailed as a new dawn that would entrench good governance, equity, rule of law, and human rights. After all, the victory was a culmination of many years of agitation against KANU dictatorship. Furthermore, NARC was a mass movement with national appeal and led by renowned anti-establishment politicians, civil society, and activist intellectuals and clergy. But, these aspirations would be betrayed by fragmentation of elites in NARC and re-invention of corruption by the same elites. This paper investigates the ramifications of the NARC collapse to the country’s post-Moi democratization process, more so the diminished role of intellectuals in public discourse. The paper demonstrates the urgent need for organic intellectuals and the way forward.     

公共行政服务的道德约束

在市场经济中,社会公共服务的职能重要性日益突出,通过道德约束来提高服务效率,是一条重要途径。我国社会道德正处在惯例层次的第二阶段,该阶段的道德约束具有公认的多样性、对象的层次性、约束重点的集中性和实施上的高难度性等特点。对此,制度性道德约束将有利于公共服务效率的提高,制度性道德约束内涵比较丰富,在实施当中,要使潜规则显性化,以他律为主,采取多种激励手段,需要建立道德约束的保护机制。     

论民事法律行为的构成要件及其理论意义

民事法律行为制度作为民法学领域的一项重要制度,其构成要件理论引起了人们的广泛争鸣。鉴于长期存在的理论混淆,文章从一般构成要件与特别构成要件角度出发加以分析,进而探讨明确界定民事法律行为构成要件的重大理论意义。这一界定有利于完善法律行为要件论,有利于理顺构成要件与生效要件的逻辑关系,有利于为举证责任提供理论依据。     

香港毒品问题现状

香港是中国的特别行政区，具有高度自治权，有着自己独立的司法制度。目前香港特区政府高度重视禁毒工作，切实加大了对禁毒工作的领导和支持，禁毒工作已经具备比较完善的法律制度，建立了较为完善的工作体系。     

Knowing the past to understand the present - issues in the contracting for cloud based services

This article builds on our previous introductory article to cloud computing ([2009] 25 CLSR 270-274) and seeks to explain how cloud computing has evolved. We then discuss how this evolution impacts on key contractual and legal considerations and how the treatment of these considerations might differ from their treatment in traditional IT supply agreements.     

The Research On the Juristic Acts System of The General Principles of Civil Law

The theory of juristic acts is the core content of the General Principles of Civil Code, and the perfection of the legal norms is one of the main tasks of the General Principles of Civil Code of PRC. Based on the theory of juristic acts, this paper gave a detailed review of all the legal norms about juristic acts in the new General Principles of Civil Code of PRC. The author believes that the General Principles of Civil law of PRC have made great progress in the definition of juristic act, the basic values behind it, the implementation and effectiveness of the declaration of intention, and the validity system of juristic acts. At the same time, the article also pointed out that this General Principles of Civil Code still needs second consideration or perfection in this field, including the selection of terminology, the effect of persons with limited capacity of juristic acts, the rules about the error in the declaration of intention, the adoption of rules aboutunilateral false declaration of intention, the optimization of the validity system of invalid juristic acts etc. This paper put forward a series of concrete and practical perfection plans, looking forward to be useful for further improvement of the General Principles and the codification of other parts of the civil law.     

合会风险的法律控制——以中国农村民间金融安全为视角

合会作为一种民间融资形式,在一定程度上弥补了正式金融机构信贷供给的不足.国家已在政策上主张探索和利用民间融资的新试点,使民间金融发展合法化.合会固有的风险防范机制——熟人社会相互问的制约机制在当今社会有所减弱,但合会所固有的风险依然存在.从我国农村民间金融安全的角度重新审视合会的风险,在借鉴印度合会风险控制立法经验的基...     

我国公务员激励机制优化的行政生态学研究

国家公务员激励机制优化是激励广大公务员实现共同行政目标的重要保障.但是在我国公务员制度的建立过程中,原有的干部激励机制正日趋失去其强大作用,与此同时却没有及时地建立起新的完善的公务员激励机制,使得公务员的激励难以产生预期的效果.作为公务员制度优化主体在特定行政生态下进行的活动,选择行政生态学作为我国公务员激励机制优化的方法论工具是极具解释力的.     

浅论医患关系的法律性质

医患关系不是一种医疗消费关系;在一般情况下,医患关系是一种民事法律关系;在公共卫生领域,医患关系是一种行政法律关系。