Stepping Up to the Plate: Minor Leaguers Attempt to Remedy their Unconscionable Plight

Professional baseball players are often thought of as making multi-million-dollar salaries, but most professional baseball players have recently made under $15,000 a year. Minor league players toiled under an onerous system resulting from baseball's judicially created antitrust exemption and lobbying efforts that exempted them from minimum wage and overtime. These factors allowed teams to impose a uniform player contract (UPC) on players with numerous unconscionable provisions for years. However, a late-night Tweet in August of 2022 sent shockwaves through the sports and labor world, announcing that the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) was sending out authorization cards to represent minor league players. After years of fighting to maintain the authority to impose conditions on minor league players, through lobbying and litigation, Major League Baseball (MLB) turned over a new leaf and recognized the unionization of minor league players under the MLBPA less than three weeks later. In light of this long sought-after recognition, this article takes a novel approach. First, it provides historical context for baseball's unique ability to impose working conditions on minor leaguers without significant concern for legal ramifications. Second, it provides an overview of the doctrine of contractual unconscionability and analyzes the prior UPC as an unconscionable agreement. Finally, it details the historic unionization process and makes detailed recommendations to ameliorate the unconscionable conditions minor league players have faced when they negotiate with MLB owners to draft their initial collective bargaining agreement.     

论被继承人宽宥制度的适用

被继承人宽宥制度,是指当继承人因特定原因丧失继承权后确有悔过行为,经被继承人宽恕后重新恢复继承权的一项民事法律制度,在我国具有一定的社会基础和深厚的历史渊源。设立被继承人宽宥制度,旨在为有过错的继承人提供改过自新、重新获得继承权的机会。     

混合所有制企业党的监督途径:融合与协同发展

混合所有制企业需要建立科学的权力监督体系来维护投资方利益,促进资产保值增值,实现企业有质量、有效益、可持续发展,而加强党的监督工作,促进党的监督与企业其他监督系统融合与协同发展是重要途径。文章结合中国石油西南油气田公司实际,分析了其托管的混合所有制企业党的监督工作面临的挑战,提出了加强混合所有制企业党的监督的具体措施:明确各监督体系的职能定位和业务界面;实施严格的经营管理分级授权控制体系;加强企业监督体系的融合与协同管理;完善监督职能履行考核评价体系等。     

营商环境下我国民营企业保护与规制的博弈

营商环境下,支持民营企业的改革与发展,确保民营企业家的人身和财产安全,有助于民营经济更好更快发展。在保障民营企业合法权益之时,应当注意民营企业经营过程中的违法违规行为,加强对其规范化经营的引导与监管。兼顾民营企业的保护与规制,就是要防止法律规制民营企业的前置化,坚持刑法适用的谦抑性,审慎适用刑法手段,注重刑法最后手段的非犯罪化、非刑罚化、轻刑化,同时改变法律关于民营企业监管的滞后性局面,推行企业失信惩戒机制,创新消费者维权机制,建立积极作为的市场监管机制。     

Prisons or Problem-Solving: Does the Public Support Specialty Courts?

ABSTRACT

Recently, “problem-solving” courts have been developed as an alternative to imprisonment. They are often called “specialty” courts because they process and divert into treatment programs offenders who are seen as different from the general criminal population, such as those with mental health or drug problems, those who are homeless or veterans, and those who engage in domestic violence. Based on a 2017 national survey of 1,000 respondents, the current study examines overall public support for rehabilitation as a goal of corrections and then focuses specifically on support for different types of specialty courts. The analysis reveals that the American public endorses not only the rehabilitative ideal but also the use of problem-solving courts. Further, with only minimal variation, strong support for these courts appears to exist regardless of political orientation and sociodemographic characteristics.     

受欺凌青少年的“沉默真相”及其行动逻辑——基于代际情感互动的视角

受欺凌青少年向父母保持"沉默",隐瞒被欺凌经历的现象十分普遍。本文从代际情感互动视角出发,通过网络民族志和深度访谈发现,当子代向亲代部分或全部披露欺凌事件,亲代继续实践日常情感互动模式会产生"虚假情感理解"甚至对子代进行身体惩罚,此外长时间的不良代际情感互动会导致受欺凌子代产生负面预期,为避免痛苦"再生产",理性的个体以向亲代保持"沉默"来进行自我保护。代际情感共同体建构是受欺凌子代实现共有感受期望的前提,代际情感互动的时空界限是真实理解受欺凌子代情感需求的基础,消解或转移受欺凌子代负性情感是打破沉默的关键,进而有助于家长理性参与校园欺凌干预,防范校园欺凌风险。     

生态环境损害赔偿磋商与司法衔接关键问题探析

生态环境损害赔偿磋商的结果及磋商协议的性质是磋商与司法衔接走向的决定性因素。根据《生态环境损害赔偿制度改革方案》,生态环境损害赔偿磋商应解读为民事性质。由此产生对磋商协议的司法确认和后续的申请人民法院强制执行问题,此为磋商与司法衔接的第一重关系。生态环境损害赔偿磋商、生态环境损害赔偿诉讼也有相较于环境民事公益诉讼的优先性,此为生态环境损害赔偿磋商与司法衔接的第二重关系。在这两重关系的框架内,具体衔接过程中如何操作则属需研究的细节问题。     

What Factors Influence the Intentions of Individuals to Engage in Tax Evasion? Evidence from Ghana

ABSTRACT

This study examines the views of students on the ethics of tax evasion, their intentions to evade tax, and investigates the factors that predict such intentions. Relying on the extended version of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the study investigated whether attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, and moral obligation may be good predictors of the intention to evade tax. Data were gathered from 662 students of University of Ghana Business School using questionnaires. The hypotheses were tested using the structural equation modelling technique. Results indicate that the intention to evade tax among the students is low and most respondents generally perceive tax evasion as an unethical practice. The results also demonstrate that attitude, subjective norms and moral obligations have important implications on the intention to evade tax. The evidence we provide should be useful to governments and tax agencies interested in promoting responsible tax compliance behaviour among individual taxpayers.     

构建我国高等学校诚信教育环境的对策研究

诚信教育是高等学校德育教育的重要内容,也是一项复杂的系统工程。它不仅需要学校大力加强学生自身诚信素质的培养,而且需要良好的外部环境的熏陶与配合。构建良好的高等学校诚信教育体系,对高等教育的健康发展和人才培养有着深远的作用和意义。