The compliant court — Procedural fairness and social control in compulsory community care

Compulsory community care (CCC) was introduced in Sweden in 2008. This article investigates all written court decisions regarding CCC over a 6 month period in 2009 (N = 541). The purpose is to examine how the legal rights of patients are protected and what forms of social control patients are subjected to.     

Mental disorder and legal responsibility: The relevance of stages of decision making

The paper discusses the relevance of decision-making models for evaluating the impact of mental disorder on legal responsibility. A three-stage model is presented that analyzes decision making in terms of behavioral control. We argue that understanding dysfunctions in each of the three stages of decision making could provide important insights in the relation between mental disorder and legal responsibility. In particular, it is argued that generating options for action constitutes an important but largely ignored stage of the decision-making process, and that dysfunctions in this early stage might undermine the whole process of making decisions (and thus behavioral control) more strongly than dysfunctions in later stages. Lastly, we show how the presented framework could be relevant to the actual psychiatric assessment of a defendant's decision making within the context of an insanity defense.     

Legislative genesis and judicial death of a directive: The European Court of Justice invalidated the data retention directive (2006/24/EC) thereby creating a sustained period of legal uncertainty about the validity of national laws which enacted it

The Grand Chamber has ruled that the data retention directive was invalid ex tunc since it seriously interfered with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and protection of personal data and exceeded the limits of the principle of proportionality which are provided for in the Charter. The scope and temporal effects of this ruling should be clarified, especially its legal impacts on national laws of Member States which enacted the directive. In addition, the findings of the Grand Chamber on geographical safeguards have far-reaching implications on the retention and storage of personal data in the EU.     

互联网金融法律风险的思考

互联网金融是推动中国金融业改革的重要动力,其在近年发展出若干种产品领域。由于互联网金融是互联网与金融两种不同文化气质的行业互相碰撞后产生的"新物种",使得其面临着诸多法律风险。对这些法律风险进行仔细思考,以利从业者认识风险、控制风险,是这个行业正常发展的重要途径。     

侵害境外作品著作权纠纷案件中权属的认定——《托马斯&朋友》音像制品著作权纠纷案评析

著作权权属的认定是人民法院审理著作权纠纷案件的逻辑起点,也是人民法院判决的重要依据。原告的举证充分与否对权属的认定起着决定性作用。《最高人民法院关于民事诉讼证据的若干规定》对域外证据的形式要件作出了明确规定,当原告所举之证不能满足域外证据的形式要件时,人民法院是严格地以此为由驳回原告诉讼请求,还是结合其他证据综合认定著作权权利归属;行政审批材料能否成为进口音像制品权属认定中的直接证据;如何评价非法出版物销售商的销售行为,这些问题都涉及法官对不同法益与法律价值之间的平衡与取舍,对当事人的权利、义务合理性配置具有指导意义。     

博物馆知识产权法律问题探析

随着我国经济的飞速发展,博物馆行业迎来了快速发展的良好机遇。然而,数字化、三维技术等高科技的应用,以及文物复仿、衍生制品的兴盛给博物馆带来了很多知识产权问题。博物馆应当重视知识产权的管理与保护,针对具体的著作权问题、商标问题和其他知识产权问题,制订相应的解决措施。只有这样,博物馆才能更好地维护自身的利益,避免纠纷,为博物馆业的发展保驾护航。     

交通肇事逃逸重复评价问题的法经济学分析

从表面上看,交通肇事罪中对逃逸的重复评价是对刑法原理中的禁止重复评价原则的挑战。但通过剖析禁止重复评价原则背后的经济学原理就会发现,二者本质上是相暗合的。这是因为,禁止重复评价原则背后的经济逻辑就是要保证刑罚威慑的最优化,而禁止重复评价原则的适用是有条件的,其前提便是某类犯罪的特定情节或行为没有导致该类犯罪的抓获概率在一段时期内明显下降,刑罚的威慑效果也没有因为特定情节或行为的出现而受到削弱,否则,对某类犯罪的特定情节或行为进行重复评价便是必要的。     

Truth and Politics: Thinking About Evidence‐Based Policy in the Age Of Spin

Evidence‐based policy and the contemporary politics of spin are said to characterise contemporary politics and policy. The paper asks firstly what sense is to be made of this coincidence, and then documents this coincidence. It then asks how credible is the conception of ‘evidence’ espoused by advocates of evidence‐based policy when it is conventionally represented as an ‘objective’ counter to ideology, spin or opinion? It points to major problems with the conventional understandings of ‘evidence’. It is suggested that while the evidence‐based policy literature relies on the associations ‘evidence’ is presumed to have with ‘sensory data’, this is neither the case nor all that defensible. The paper reprises arguments advanced by Henry Mayer and Hannah Arendt that the relationship of politics to the empirical was and is a far more complex relationship than is conventionally understood to be the case.     

纯粹法理论语境下的法律解释

凯尔森在纯粹法语境之下,对法律解释进行了分析。由于凯尔森法律体系理论和研究方法具有法律科学纯粹性,因此法律解释理论也是具有自身纯粹性。尽管不同学者对其抱有悲观态度,同时凯尔森对其论述着墨不多,但是凯尔森法律解释理论可谓是独辟蹊径。这种建立在纯粹法体系之上法律解释是形式的、结果的解释理论。凯尔森的法律解释是对自由法学中法律漏洞理论的一个回应。凯尔森认为法律解释存在于法律适用整个过程,但不可能用于漏洞填补。     

公诉案件庭审中非法证据排除程序酌实践与思考

对于庭审中提出非法证据排除申请的,相关证据展示、交换和对证据收集合法性的证明。拟通过休庭方式在庭下进行,庭上再进行确认或裁定;对于当庭非法证据排除调查不至于造成庭审过分延误的,也可在庭审过程中进行。侦查人员作为“程序上的被告”出庭说明情况,虽不具备证人身份,但依然可以接受控辩双方的质询,从某种意义上说,是依法辅助公诉人履行控诉职责的职务行为。