论独立董事的功能

现行规定对独立董事的功能定位模糊 ,容易引起独立董事和监事会的功能冲突 ,本文通过对独立董事制度功能的考察和比较 ,提出在界定独立董事功能时应考虑的方向。     

论无独立请求权第三人制度的重构

随着社会主义市场经济体制在我国的逐步确立,以及公民主体意识的不断增强,各类民事纠纷大幅度增加,由此使得人民法院人少案多的矛盾渐趋突出。而根据自身特点,本应发挥更大作用以缓解上述矛盾的无独立请求权第三人制度,却反而暴露出其本身在法理基础、立法技术和司法实践中的诸多缺陷。对此,惟一的出路与选择便是对该制度进行完善,甚至是重构。通过深入研究该制度的立法体例和实践运行现状,进而剖析问题存在之根源,在辩证地梳理该制度价值取向和法理基础的前提下,提出综合改造构想。     

关于教唆犯性质的再认识

在刑法理论中,通常将教唆犯作为共犯的一种类型加以探究.共犯理论最为复杂,在刑法学界争议也最多,日本刑法学者中义胜曾感慨道:"认为‘共犯理论是绝望之章',确实不足为怪."[1]而教唆犯又是共犯理论中最为复杂的问题,主要集中在共犯的性质上,具体体现在共犯从属性和共犯独立性两大阵营的对抗.由此,通过中外立法比较,以有利于司法实践为角度,探析我国刑事理论上应然之观点甚为重要.     

从中日对比的视角看独立董事制度立法方式的选择

比较中国和日本独立董事制度立法方式的异同,说明中日两国在任意性规范与强制性规范的平衡把握上殊途同归,都在一定程度上达到了宽严有度、刚柔相济的立法效果,并为下部法规的制定提出建议。     

Wives are Told: Don't Blame the Bank, Sue Your Solicitor: Royal Bank of Scotland v. Etridge (No. 2) and other appeals [1998] 4 All E.R. 705

This case note considers the Court of Appeal decision in Royal Bank of Scotland v. Etridge (No. 2) and other appeals [1998] 4 All E.R. 705. It concerns the familiar scenario of a wife jointly mortgaging (or providing a guarantee for a mortgage of) the family home in order to secure financial support for a business run by her husband. The House of Lords decision in Barclays Bank v O'Brien [1994] A.C. 180 has given rise to a range of litigation in this area, and the spotlight has now moved from the banks to an examination of the quality of advice given by solicitors. The banks have heeded the warnings in O'Brien and now insist that wives are told to obtain independent legal advice. It will be seen that, following Etridge, if the bank tells the solicitor to give the wife legal advice upon undertaking the transaction, that will be sufficient to protect the bank, notwithstanding that the advice was either inadequate or even not actually given. The onus to ensure that proper advice is given is shifted squarely on to the solicitor. The note concludes that the decision is indicative of the shift of judicial opinion against wives seeking to avoid charges over matrimonial homes and in favour of banks. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Police and the New Magistracy: Independent Members and the New Police Authorities

Independent appointed members to police authorities were introduced as part of the reforms brought about by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994. This radical change to the make-up of police authorities was defended by government ministers as a necessary reform in order to broaden the expertise and experience available in such bodies. Critics, by contrast, saw the change as a move to further centralise control, and as a means of reducing local democratic input, over policing. Using data from a national telephone survey of police authority clerks, and case studies of three police force areas, this article examines the role of `independent' appointed members to local police authorities. We argue that the early signs are that the new members are becoming well integrated into police authorities, although such bodies have been significantly depoliticised as a result of this and other changes. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Testing for the Equality of Maximum-Likelihood Regression Coefficients Between Two Independent Equations

Consider the case where one obtains maximum-likelihood estimates of regression coefficients for the respective populations from which each of two large independent samples is drawn. A question sometimes asked about the results of such an analysis is whether there is a difference between a coefficient in one population, _a, and the same coefficient in another population, _b. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of two test statistics that have been used to address this problem. Our results suggest that one statistic produces valid conclusions, while the other fails.     

权力制衡：现代法治形成的直接条件

在现代法治形成的条件系统中，权力制衡之于法治最具有直接性的意义。它不仅有利于良法的生成，更为良法的普遍遵守提供了制度性保障，从而成为现代法治得以实现的结构性的必然选择，也成为中国法治建设的现实突破口。     

安慰函制度的法国经验及其启示

法国担保法改革在《法国民法典》中引入了"安慰函"的概念,丰富了大陆法系国家有关"人的担保"的立法。法国法因此树立了一个范例,其有关"安慰函"的定义、判定、签发人的担保义务的识别、"安慰函"与"保证"和"独立担保"等传统"人的担保"类型之间关系的厘清,无论在理论上、立法上还是实务上都具有重要的比较法意义。     

略论行政执法监督的资源整合

行政执法监督的资源整合首先应当在致力于实现技术层面之监督职能独立及责任独立的同时,加强各执法监督主体之间的信息互动,形成监督合力。其次,应当建立专门的人大监督部门,真正发挥人大在行政执法监督方面的制度功能。再者,政府及其部门应当重视以新兴的互联网空间及商业媒体为代表的社会舆论监督,尊重其作为新兴监督平台或一定民意平台的事实地位并将其整合为体制内行政执法监督之有效资源。