在惩罚犯罪与保障人权之间：关于监听的法律思考

监听是世界各国为应付犯罪形势的新变化而发展起来的一种高技术化、高隐密性的强制侦查措施，其出现对于侦查机关打击和惩罚犯罪发挥了极其重要的作用。但是另一方面，监听的采用又严重侵犯了公民隐私权，因此，各国都对监听的采用规定了严格的法律程序，以防止侦查机关滥用监听，过度分割公民权利。我国刑事诉讼立法上对监听缺乏明确规定，这不利于保障公民人权，应当加以改进。     

THE EVOLUTION—OR END—OF MARRIAGE?: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPASSE OVER SAME‐SEX MARRIAGE

The debate over legalizing same‐sex marriage implicates the question of whether doing so would signal the end—or destruction—of the institution of marriage. The appeal to preserving a millennia‐old tradition of marriage against change fails to reckon with the evolution that has already occurred. Invocations of gender complementarity between parents as essential to child well‐being also conflict with growing recognition in family law that children's best interests can be served by gay and lesbian parents. Canada's path toward same‐sex marriage suggests that impasse need not be inevitable. In the United States, this impasse stems in part from the problem that same‐sex marriage serves as an emblem of everything that threatens marriage.     

A SHORT COMMENTARY ON TIMOTHY M. TIPPINS AND JEFFREY P. WITTMANN'S "EMPIRICAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS WITH CUSTODY RECOMMENDATIONS

In this commentary, the call for clinical humility and judicial vigilance in custody recommendations is confirmed as valid and the Australian experience, where the child custody report writer has for some years been permitted to express an opinion on the ultimate issue, is considered. The inherent risks are briefly discussed, and the question of who of the judge and the social scientist might be better placed to decide the exquisitely difficult children's issues after family breakdown is touched upon. It suggests that a combination of the expert's opinion and judicial fact finding probably produces a result that is as good as it gets. But a greater danger is highlighted. It is the impact of the adversary system, and whether it is suitable in any event to these sensitive court decisions.     

公正执法:构建和谐社会的重大公安议题

公安机关必须深刻认识公正执法的极端重要性,树立新型的公安执法观念公正执法是社会和谐的大前提,是长治久安的重要保证,是公安工作的生命线;公安执法存在的主要问题与形势需要还不相适应,内部违法违纪、执法犯法屡有发生,对公安执法非议依然不少;以公正执法来推进和谐社会建设,必须改革公安管理体制和工作机制,当前要正确理解、贯彻双重领导体制下的公安执法范畴,通过修改、完善刑事诉讼法严防冤案错案,坚决走政治建警、从严治警之路,落实执法监督措施.     

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Step Towards Stronger Involvement of Business in MEA Implementation?

This article explores the relationship between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). It offers an overview of the linkages, a survey of relevant provisions of key MEAs, and a review of the relationship between global trade rules and MEAs. Finally, the article highlights three ongoing discussions with relevance to linkages between CSR and MEAs: (1) whether, and if so how, to identify minimum global business standards in the environmental sphere; (2) the rapidly evolving 'sub-theme' within the CSR agenda which addresses the business/development interface, and the contribution of business to poverty reduction, sustainable livelihoods and achieving the Millennium Development Goals; and (3) the development by the International Organization for Standardization of an international guidance standard on 'organizational social responsibility', which, if adopted, will become ISO 26000. The risk of seeing CSR as a new pathway to MEA implementation is that the role of MEAs in informing the development of minimum acceptable environmental norms of business behaviour will be 'watered down'. If MEAs are to learn from CSR, their competitors and often stronger counterparts in the international architecture – intergovernmental trade and investment arrangements – also need to be equipped not only to be sensitive to CSR, but actively to support it. ¹     

论自主创新与政府促进机制的完善

《国家中长期科学和技术发展规划纲要(2006-2020年)》按照党的十六大总体部署,立足我国国情、以增强自主创新能力为主线,以建设创新型国家为奋斗目标,对我国未来15年科学和技术发展作出了全面规划与安排。在我国自主创新能力提高的进程中政府是关键,一些发达国家政府支持企业自主创新的经验值得重视和借鉴。     

上层建筑是为产生它的经济基础服务的

按照马克思主义创始人的观点,无论是政治的上层建筑,还是思想的上层建筑,都是适应一定的经济基础的需要而产生,并且是竖立在这种基础之上的。有什么样的经济基础,就要求有什么样的上层建筑;随着经济基础的变更,上层建筑也要相适应地变革。同时,上层建筑也反作用于经济基础。