Policy Adoption and Policy Intensity: Emergence of Climate Adaptation Planning in U.S. States

The United States is experiencing growing impacts of climate change but currently receives a limited policy response from its national leadership. Within this policy void, many state governments are stepping up and taking action on adaptation planning. Yet we know little about why some states adopt State Adaptation Plans (SAPs), while others do not. This article investigates factors that predict the emergence of SAPs, both in terms of policy adoption and policy intensity (goal ambitiousness). Applying the diffusion of innovation theory, I consider the relative influence of internal state characteristics, regional pressures, and test for conditional effects between government ideologies and severity of the problem. The results show interesting differences between predictors that influence policy adoption and ambitiousness. States are more motivated to adopt a policy when faced with greater climate vulnerability, have more liberal citizenry, and where governments have crossed policy hurdles by previously passing mitigation plans. The intensity of policies and goal setting, moreover, is more likely to be driven by interest group politics and diffuse through policy learning or sharing information among neighboring states in Environmental Protection Agency regions. These findings support an emerging scholarship that uses more complex dependent variables in policy analysis. These variables have the potential to differentiate symbolic from substantive policies and capture finer information about predictors of importance.     

论遗嘱受益回避简

遗嘱受益回避，即因特定角色之承担从而能对他人遗嘱的成立或生效产生重要影响的入，不得从该他人遗嘱中受益。遗嘱受益回避的适用对象，包括遗嘱订立时遗嘱人的监护人、医疗人员和参与遗嘱订立的见证人、公证人及起草人，以及前列人员的配偶、直系血亲和兄弟姐妹。遗嘱受益回避的除外情形为：前述人员与遗嘱人之间有配偶、直系血亲或兄弟姐妹关系；即使某见证人或公证人没有参与，遗嘱也能有效成立；遗嘱起草人被列为受益人时，遗嘱人已征询无利害关系律师的独立意见。     

山西省煤炭资源税计征体系的完善

近年来,随着煤炭价格不断上涨,煤炭资源税从量征收的弊端不断显现,我省作为重要能源基地受到的影响更为明显,煤炭行业资源税计征体系亟待完善。现阶段我省推行煤炭行业资源税从价征收会产生一些益处,但同时也会带来一些问题,所以不能依靠单一的政策或行业,要制定从价从量、结合计征的政策,推进行业整合、节约资源,促进企业煤电一体、降低成本,从而建立起完善科学的资源税计征体系。     

关于“唯一指定产品”称号的法律思考

“唯一指定产品”称号已频繁出现于各种广告之中 ,其在社会经济生活中的广泛适用 ,对活跃市场经济具有不可或缺的作用。“唯一指定产品”称号在本质上应属于商誉权 ,国家应适时立法对其进行依法保护。     

论未成年人财产权

未成年人财产权保护没有形成统一的立法体制,司法保护不健全,应建立未成年人财产权的统一规制,制定统一的未成年人财产权法规,完善监护制度,设立监护人管理财产的监督制度。落实未成年人财产权的程序法,完善未成年人财产权的特殊立法。     

未成年人注意义务对我国监护人责任立法的启示

目前我国对未成年人侵权的法律责任采取统一由监护人承担的方法，没有考察行为人的过失能力，也没有考察行为人的过失，这样的立法简单粗糙，极不完善。可以借鉴美国法的未成年人注意义务，丰富我国的立法内容，完善法律规定。     

美国欠缺行为能力成年人之关系权研究及启示

美国欠缺行为能力成年人之关系权学说经过多年的发展日趋完善。它从社会关系学的角度来分析了成年人监护的设立、被监护人权利的维护以及终止监护的条件。独特的分析角度、严密的逻辑性、富有实效的操作规范使得它具有高度的研究价值,为成年监护法律制度的发展做出了巨大的贡献。鉴于我国高龄智障者日益增多,我国仅限精神病人为成年监护的对象,完全无法利用该制度保护其利益。现行条文不仅不能解决所有问题,且法律条文规定过少,非常有参照外国立法修正本国立法的必要。     

论禁治产人与无行为能力人的当代私法命运

古老的禁治产人制度因背离当代人权保障的理念，陆续退出大陆法系主要国家民法典。作为继受了禁治产人制度的我国成年无行为能力人制度，除了在理念上存在着与禁治产人制度相同的问题外，在立法和适用中还面临着诸多问题。未来民法典对成年人应取消无行为能力人一级的司法拟制，保留限制行为能力人。对限制行为能力人，实行个案审查以确定行为人的行为能力的欠缺范围。新设监护登记替代行为能力宣告的公示方式。     

Regulating Autonomy: An Assessment of Policy Language for Highly Automated Vehicles

Self‐driving cars (also known as driverless cars, autonomous vehicles, and highly automated vehicles [HAVs]) will change the regulatory, political, and ethical frameworks surrounding motor vehicles. At the highest levels of automation, HAVs are operated by independent machine agents, making decisions without the direct intervention of humans. The current transportation system assumes human intervention though, including legal and moral responsibilities of human operators. Has the development of these artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous system (AS) technologies outpaced the ethical and political conversations? This paper examines discussions of HAVs, driver responsibility, and technology failure to highlight the differences between how the policy‐making institutions in the United States (Congress and the Public Administration) and technology and transportation experts are or are not speaking about responsibility in the context of autonomous systems technologies. We report findings from a big data analysis of corpus‐level documents to find that enthusiasm for HAVs has outpaced other discussions of the technology.     

公用事业特许经营中的临时接管程序研究——从“内蒙古西乌旗政府临时接管民营热电企业案”切入

在公用事业特许经营的实施过程中,当公共利益遭受或面临重大损害时,监管者有权采取临时接管措施来保障公用事业运营的连续性和稳定性.然而,实践中的临时接管操作存在着程序倒置、程序缺失、程序失调等重大的程序瑕疵.公用事业特许经营临时接管程序法制的缺失,加剧了政府临时接管行为的合法性危机.危机消解的根本之道在于强化临时接管程序的立法规定,通过对申请、听证、决定、启动、执行、终止六大程序的系统建构来约束政府的临时接管行为,保障各方利益主体的合法权益.