The Frontiers of Legal Analysis: Reframing the Transition in Northern Ireland

British constitutional legal discourse is structurally limited in its capacity to capture the complexity of the Good Friday Agreement. Rather than assessing the Agreement in narrow devolutionary terms, it should be seen as a hybrid domestic and international law instrument, making an important contribution to accepted international law norms in relation to self-determination. The Agreement transforms and partly transcends the Northern Ireland conflict by substituting political contestation for violent conflict, and by defining the modalities of conducting that contestation. This analysis complements classical international law perspectives, and opens up the application of legal discourses associated with 'transitional justice' to the legal and political transformation in Northern Ireland. These discourses focus on the problem of reconciling the demands of peace with the imperatives of justice. The Agreement sits squarely in this terrain with its provisions on 'dealing with the past' and 'institutional legacies'. The insights gained here challenge orthodox thinking about conflict-management and the ongoing political process.     

远城区建筑工地及周边地区治安问题调查分析

随着远城区城市化建设的深入,大面积土地正不断被政府征用或进行商业性开发,其相关地区的社会治安形势也随之经历着巨变,特别是在大型建筑工地及其周边所存在的治安问题则更具典型性和代表性。本文详尽描述并分析了远城区建筑工地及周边存在的“砖沙石霸”、农民土地补偿、外来民工管理等诸多典型性治安问题,借此对远城区在城市化进程中发生的治安形势变化进行初步探索。