`The Capabilities Approach', `The Imaginary Domain', and `Asymmetrical Reciprocity': Feminist Perspectives on Equality and Justice

In this article the author revisits the question of how feminist theory/theories could address questions regarding universalism, sameness, difference, and the quest for justice. She reconsiders the quest for justice and equality for women and the (im) possibilities of a feminist perspective on justice and a feminist `community'. The three feminist theorists that she discusses are Martha Nussbaum, Drucilla Cornell, and Iris Marion Young. Nussbaum is closer to a liberal defense of universal values – Cornell and Young stand critical of liberalism and focus on sublimity, dignity, and asymmetrical reciprocity. The author supports the perspective of the latter two theorists and applies these perspectives to aspects of South African equality jurisprudence. She also considers critically the extent to which the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa breaks with liberal universalism and sameness. To the end she supports a notion of` slowing down' in order to protect women's freedom and dignity, to approach each other with wonder and respect. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

试论WTO与我国人权法制建设

WTO将给我国人权法制建设带来深远的影响 ,为了更好地与WTO全面接轨 ,人权立法应注重平等权 ,程序性权利及劳动标准等方面的应对策略。     

论刑事简易程序一审终审制的确立

公正和效率是刑事诉讼程序永恒的价值诉求,也是衡量审级制度设置是否具有合理性的当然评判标准。基于案件的不同性质和种类设置多元的审级制度是全面实现公正和效率价值的合理要求。刑事简易程序的价值取向应当定位为效率优位,刑事简易程序一审终审制的确立必然以一审程序的公正性为前提。限制刑事简易程序的适用范围、赋予刑事简易程序被告人的选择权、强化检察机关派员出席法庭支持公诉以及确保被告人的辩护权落到实处,是实现刑事简易程序一审终审制的基本保障。     

和谐社会中的平等受教育权问题

由于认识和制度设计上的缺陷,我国社会中还存在着受教育权不平等的现象。受教育权对于国家、社会和个人都具有重要的意义,教育作用的本质体现是,教育成为每一个社会成员得以发展的动力,是其向上流动的前提。我国同世界各国一样,都在包括宪法在内的一系列重要的法律文件中规定了公民平等的受教育权以及政府为此所承担的义务,并把它作为建设和谐社会的当然内容。我们应当在法治的轨道上解决这些问题。     

后现代女性主义及其对中国男女平等的启示

伴随后现代主义的扩展,后现代女性主义诞生并对国际女性运动产生了较大影响。抛开二者的差异性,后现代女性主义理论也可以为中国的男女平等妇女运动提供有益启示。我们有必要借鉴后现代女权主义的某些思想原则和观点,以促进中国男女平等的进程。     

辽宁省妇女发展与性别平等状况的分析报告

对我国妇女发展和性别平等现状进行科学的评估是认识我国妇女发展和性别平等现状从而也是进一步促进妇女发展和实现性别平等的前提和基础。在全国妇联妇女研究所对整个中国妇女发展和性别平等状况进行评估的基础上,运用其所建立的指标体系和相关数据,对辽宁省的妇女发展和实现性别平等状况进行分析,对推动辽宁省的性别平等事业的继续发展具有重要的理论贡献。     

“十二五”时期推进城乡基本公共服务均等化的政策要点

本文总结了近年来我国推进城乡基本公共服务均等化方面的进展和当前存在的突出问题,提出应当把构建普惠、均等、一体基本公共服务体系作为城乡公共服务体制改革的基本目标。普惠,就是公共服务体系能够覆盖城乡全体居民;均等,就是全国范围内基本公共服务的标准差别不大,与经济发展水平相适应;一体,就是逐步改变城乡分治的制度安排,形成城乡一体的制度框架。     

The Meretriciousness of Meritocracy

Meritocracy has become the creed of all three British political parties. There is a consensus that progress towards it has stalled. In fact, it is doubtful how widespread the advance to meritocracy ever was and how far short of achieving it Britain fell. In any case, meritocracy, if it is not accompanied by greater equality of outcome, would not promote a happier society. It would make the rich more unrestrained in their greed and the poor more miserable thinking their poverty their own fault.     

论辩方对有利于被告人证据的阅卷权

2012年《刑事诉讼法》关于辩方阅卷范围的规定引发了关于控方是否有义务将其掌握的全部证据,尤其是有利于被告人证据提交给辩方问题的讨论。鉴于控方在证据获取中的绝对优势地位,从维持控辩平等、实现有效辩护、维系检察官客观义务、探求实体真实的角度出发,由辩方掌握全面阅卷权有其理论正当性,而不同法系国家中辩方从控方获取有利于被告人信息的比较法考察也印证了这一判断,目前关键在于如何通过制度设计保障辩方这一阅卷权的实现,其他国家的制度设计可以给我们一些启示。     

Backing Away From Equality

Abstract

In his early work in political philosophy, Amartya Sen advanced an interesting and provocative thesis – the egalitarian thesis. This is the claim that every conception of social justice that has received support in recent times is egalitarian. This paper argues that Sen's account of capabilities and his more recent critique of transcendental justice have implications for the truth of the egalitarian thesis. It also discusses how the rejection of the egalitarian thesis bears on the larger, and more general, issue of the overall plausibility of egalitarian conceptions of social justice.