WTO义务减让表的解释问题

本文论述WTO减让表的法律解释问题。专家组和上诉机构对减让表的解释仅仅局限于《维也纳条约法公约》31、32、33条的运用,而忽略了减让表谈判、草拟、缔结的单边性,导致减让表的解释面临重重困境。本文梳理了专家组、上诉机构在个案中解释减让表的具体步骤,指出减让表解释目前面临困境的根源,提出减让表解释可以援用其他的解释方法。减让表解释的研究意义主要在于开阔眼界,认识到发挥WTO裁判机构司法能动性的重要意义,促进法律解释学的发展以及国际法最终体系化的发展。     

Commentary on the Newly Published White Paper Concerning the Rule of Law in China

On February 28, 2008, the State Council Information Office published a white paper entitled China＇s Efforts and Achievements in Promoting the Rule of Law. This document is the first white paper published by the government on China＇s rule of law. It contains eight chapters and six appendices to review China＇s achievements on the road to practicing the rule of law in a compre- hensive way, and to expound the official Chinese policy and position on this is- sue. With some essential points inside, the publication of this white paper is of great significance, especially this year, to China＇s rule of law, human rights prog- ress, and its communication and dialogue with the international community.     

Pink Chaddis and SlutWalk Couture: The Postcolonial Politics of Feminism Lite

The SlutWalk campaigns around the world have triggered a furious debate on whether they advance or limit feminist legal politics. This article examines the location of campaigns such as the SlutWalk marches in the context of feminist legal advocacy in postcolonial India, and discusses whether their emergence signifies the demise of feminism or its incarnation in a different guise. The author argues that the SlutWalks, much like the Pink Chaddi (panty) campaign in India, provide an important normative and discursive challenge to a specific strand of feminism based on male domination and female subordination in the area of sexuality and also speaks to the emergence of consumer agency in the very heart of pleasure in the neo-liberal moment. It serves as a space clearing gesture, a form of feminism ??lite??, rather than offering a transformative or revolutionary politics, and thus enables the possibility of feminist theoretical positions in a postcolonial context that have hitherto been marginalised or ignored in feminist legal advocacy in India to emerge.     

云南回族教育的传统与走向

回族教育从回族形成时即开始.云南回族教育与其他地区的回族教育一样,走过了家庭教育、经堂教育到国民教育的发展过程,但是这三个过程又从来没有因为后者的出现而摒弃前一种教育形式,而是三种教育并存,所不同的是,在不同的社会发展阶段所占的比重和教育的主要内容不同而已.当代云南回族的教育,有其先进和发展迅速的一面,也有着观念和行动上落后的弊端.回族教育要与时代合拍,只有进行创新和改革,才能培养出高层次的人才.     

Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: analysis and recommendations.

No consensus yet exists on how to handle incidental findings (IFs) in human subjects research. Yet empirical studies document IFs in a wide range of research studies, where IFs are findings beyond the aims of the study that are of potential health or reproductive importance to the individual research participant. This paper reports recommendations of a two-year project group funded by NIH to study how to manage IFs in genetic and genomic research, as well as imaging research. We conclude that researchers have an obligation to address the possibility of discovering IFs in their protocol and communications with the IRB, and in their consent forms and communications with research participants. Researchers should establish a pathway for handling IFs and communicate that to the IRB and research participants. We recommend a pathway and categorize IFs into those that must be disclosed to research participants, those that may be disclosed, and those that should not be disclosed.     

对WTO秘书处地位和作用的重新定位

WTO秘书处在许多不同的领域发挥了作用,例如贸易谈判、贸易协议的实施与管理、争端解决等方面。但令人担忧的是,秘书处的作用被弱化,变得越发唯唯诺诺,这会使WTO失去效率。“车轮”理论要求WTO从两轮机器变成四轮机器,发挥秘书处和总干事的最大功效。     

国际经济法理论的多元视角

当代国际经济法应该具有多元开放的法学视角和理论进路,例如,法律视角、经济视角、政治视角、历史视角、人权视角、哲学视角、发展视角、可持续发展视角,等等。Jackson的实用主义宪法制度分析、Petersmann的理想主义自由宪政分析、Qureshi的全球化多元综合法律分析为国际经济法学术领域的三种主要视角。国际经济法的理论多元标志着国际经济法学术开始走出理论的幼稚和贫困,迈向理论的成熟和繁荣,进而超越概念之争,进入理论之争,乃至开启范式之争。