斯多亚哲学与自然法中的普世主义

斯多亚哲学是西方自然法理论的开端，基于其对世界精致的泛神论解释，斯多亚哲学提出了普世主义的平等观，人人皆有神性，在起源上皆为平等。斯多亚哲学的普世主义经由自然法的媒介改造了罗马法，为罗马法产生平等法权观念提供了哲学前提。     

The Attitudes of the Chinese Middle Class Towards Democracy

Little has been done to quantitatively establish the connection between the middle class and a specific regime type. In an effort to fill in the gap, this study uses Asian Barometer survey dataset to examine the attitudes and orientation of China’s rising middle class. We find that the Chinese middle class does show higher democratic orientation than those we categorize as lower class, but only if class is defined by occupation or by self-identification, and not by income level. We interpret this result to mean that economic development offers new life experiences with the creation of new types of professions and enhances people’s agreement with modern democratic values by arousing people’s consciousness of their new social class status.

Promoting Participation? An Examination of Rulemaking Notification and Access Procedures

This study documents state implementation of mechanisms designed to promote public participation in agency rulemaking. Many scholars have questioned the effectiveness of such mechanisms, arguing that they fail to encourage greater participation or that increased participation does not affect the substance of administrative rules. Using data from a unique survey of state administrators, the author employs multivariate analyses to assess the relationship between these measures and the perceived influence of external actors. The results suggest that critics may understate the importance of public notification and access procedures. These devices are associated with increases in the impact that a wide variety of actors are perceived to have on the content of agency rules.     

Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Location of Air Polluters

In federal systems, both state governments and firms have incentives to strategically locate polluting facilities where the environmental and health consequences will be borne as much as possible by residents of other jurisdictions. We analyze air polluter location in the United States using a spatial point pattern model, which models where events occur in latitude and longitude. Our analyses indicate that major air polluters are significantly more likely to be located near a state's downwind border than a control group of other industrial facilities, results that are robust to a wide variety of model specifications and measurement strategies. This effect is particularly pronounced for facilities with toxic air emissions. The observed pattern of polluter location varies systematically across states and time in ways that suggest it is responsive to public policy at both the national and state levels.     

监狱医疗困境与社会化医疗模式的构建

“全额保障”的现行服刑人员医疗体制无论在资金还是医疗技术方面都存在巨大的困难，这种制度并未得到监狱、监狱民警以及服刑人员在价值观念上的认可和行动上的支持，负性影响日趋显现。探索监狱医疗社会化模式，使其始终遵循社会公民一致性原则，将服刑人员纳入城乡居民基本医疗保险体系，使服刑人员在就医、缴费、保障上摆脱“免费困境”，无疑是解决问题的良方。     

我国医疗纠纷解决机制之重构

在未来医疗纠纷还会进一步大量增加的趋势下,重新审视我们以往解决医疗纠纷的途径是否有效及其局限所在显属必要。同时,根据医疗纠纷解决时须兼顾维系医患之间的和谐关系的特点和需求,妥善建构和选用医疗纠纷所适合的程序制度和程序法理,使我国医疗纠纷解决机制多元化、合理化。     

The Frye hearing in Florida: an attempt to exclude scientific evidence

State Supreme Courts require a minimum threshold of reliability and acceptance in the scientific community for all medical and similar evidence to be admitted at trial. In Florida and some other states, the courts adhere to what is known as the Frye standard, whereas in most states and in Federal Courts, it is the so-called Daubert standard. The jurisdiction of the present case is Hillsborough County (Tampa), Florida. Forensic pathologists seldom, if ever, are requested to participate in such hearings, unlike their toxicological and basic science colleagues who are more involved in research methodology and technical procedures. The burden is on the proponent of the evidence to prove the general acceptance of both the underlying scientific principle of the test and procedures used to apply that principle to the facts of the case at hand. The trial judge has the sole discretion to determine this question and general acceptance must be established by a preponderance of the evidence. The authors describe in detail a hearing in a case in which they were all involved. One author (WQS) had researched and documented the original scientific methodology in the literature. The situation involved a car and tractor trailer crash with the two occupants of the car dying of multiple trauma, whereas the truck driver was not injured. Autopsy of the auto driver revealed multiple injuries with exsanguination, and only vitreous humor and liver tissue, but not blood, were tested for ethyl alcohol. The estate of the driver of the automobile brought suit against the owner of the trucking company for wrongful death. The plaintiff requested a Frye hearing to question the reliability of testing other body specimens to translate to probable blood alcohol level. The testimony, submitted documents, and eventual decision by the judge are discussed.     

论人的现代化与社会主义法治现代化

人的现代化与社会法治现代化是辩证统一的关系：既互为前提和基础，又相互促进、共同发展。社会主义法治现代化的本质就是人的现代化，所以必须在人的现代化之中实现社会主义法治现代化。     

后危机时代我国转变经济发展方式的根本途径

中国在成功战胜国际金融危机,实现经济总体回升向好的背景下,积极转变经济发展方式,是巩固战胜国际金融危机成果,继续保持经济平稳较快发展,推进我国经济又好又快发展的关键举措。在后金融危机时代转变经济发展方式,实现我国国民经济又好又快发展,需要进一步完善社会主义市场经济体制,不断优化和调整经济结构,不断进行自主创新,全心全意为广大人民谋福利。