The American Way

Media consolidation and convergence have increasingly changed the way individuals as both consumers and citizens access, process, and communicate information at the local, national, and global levels. Media industries and institutions influence public perception and occupy our time at work and at home more and more. Media literacy has become recognized as a twenty-first-century skill necessary for civic competence and the development of informed, responsible citizens. Although it has long been established in the curricula of other nations, it is relatively new in the United States. Media literacy is not simply teaching with media—rather, it entails teaching about media. Key frameworks such as the Text, Audience, and Production (TAP) model, which is explained in this article, can be used to help students systematically analyze and evaluate the wide range of media texts they are exposed to on a daily basis. The author discusses how media literacy is also compatible with several of the major strands identified by the National Council for the Social Studies and can be facilitated by the growing range of resources available to teachers.     

两岸旅游类高校人才培养模式的比较——以高雄餐旅大学与南京旅游职业学院为例

江苏旅游职业教育集团通过考察高雄餐旅大学，对台湾旅游职业教育发展模式有了一定的了解，并从中获得了很多经验和启示。南京旅游职业学院作为大陆知名的旅游高校，其人才培养模式与高雄餐旅大学有类似之处，但也存在一定的差距。通过对两者的比较，笔者认为以南京旅游职业学院为代表的大陆旅游高校应进一步改革创新，加快与国际旅游职业教育接轨的步伐。     

The Changing Face of Public Adoption Practice

ABSTRACT

A study analyzing the workload of California's public adoption workers revealed how much adoption practice in the public sector has changed in recent years. Using focused discussion groups, this study found that compared to practice of an earlier time, (1) children available for placement come from more problematic families and are more difficult to place; (2) some decisions traditionally with the domain of adoptions are now being made by other social workers; and (3) increased oversight by the judicial system has had several unanticipated consequences, including adoption work taking on a “paralegal” quality and judges making traditional casework decisions.     

《酌中志·饮食好尚纪略》及其揭示的明代宫廷节日生活

《酌中志·饮食好尚纪略》是一个明代太监对宫廷岁时生活的系统记述,具有自己的书写特色和较高的史料价值。它揭示了明代宫廷岁时生活的如下特征:和宫廷以外的人一样,皇帝及其嫔妃、宫人也有其节日体系和节日生活,宫人们通常以家庭为单位来过节,节日生活充满了世俗色彩;宫内人的岁时节日生活带有明显的北京地方性特征;宫内人的岁时节日生活带有鲜明的宫廷色彩。     

美国的正义之脸:行政法官

法律是实现正义的重要手段,法院的法官则代表着正义。随着行政机关被赋予了行政裁决的准司法权力,主持行政裁决的行政官员们也日趋受到关注,因为他们职责的履行同样也决定着正义是否能被真正实现。美国行政法官在社会中扮演着越来越重要的角色,虽然他们没有普通法院的法官地位显赫,但由于其在实现正义上有着不可替代的作用,行政法官越来越倍受人们的尊重。     

Witnesses’ Appearance in Court and Guarantees for the Defendant's Right to Confrontation

刑事证人出庭作证的主要意义在于保障被告人的对质权。因此，刑事证人出庭问 题基本上可替换为以被告人对质权为核心的必要证人出庭问题。由于中国的刑事诉讼 法及其司法解释并未赋予被告人对质权，实践中必要证人出庭率仅为25%左右。这种 无对质权语境下的刑事审判，通常表现为积极的实体真实主义、定罪量刑的非精细化 操作和裁判正当性来源的单一化。为改变这一局面，有必要确立对质权制度及相应的 保障机制。

关键词: 证人出庭?必要证人出庭率?对质权?裁判正当性

The main significance of witnesses’ appearing in court to testify in criminal trials is that this practice guarantees the defendant's right to confrontation. The issue can thus be framed in another way, as the issue of the appearance in court of the necessary witnesses. Here, the defendant's right to confront is the key point. Since neither China's criminal procedural law nor corresponding judicial interpretations have granted the defendant the right to confront, the rate of appearance of the necessary witnesses amounts in practice to only about twenty‐ five percent. Criminal trials conducted in the absence of the right to confrontation usually conform to the doctrine of positive substantive truth and manifest a lack of care in conviction and sentencing as well as reliance on a single source of legitimacy in reaching judgments. To correct this state of affairs, it is necessary to institute the right to confront and corresponding safeguards.     

对法院调解的再认识

文章在分析法院调解的基本属性的基础上 ,强调指出 ,一定程度上人们对法院调解的认识已陷入误区。认为这是目前影响法院调解立法与实践操作的关键因素。笔者以此为切入点 ,主张对法院调解不可轻易言废 ,进而提出完善建议     

王宠惠法律思想与实践述评

王宠惠是我国近代著名的法学家，在法律理论方面有很高的造诣和独到的研究；在法律实践方面，他曾长期参与立法、司法工作，对我国近代法制的改革和建设有一定的贡献。文章就王氏在宪法、国际法、民法、司法建设等方面，对其法律思想和实践作一初步评述，以期为我国社会主义法制建设提供借鉴     

国外环境法院制度及其对我国的启示

作为世界上第一家环境法院,澳大利亚新南威尔士州土地环境法院是包括中国在内的各国环境法院学习和研究的先例。经过三十几年的实践,其土地环境法院的各项制度都已经发展得比较完备,如综合性管辖权、替代纠纷解决机制、法院专家制度等。目前,我国虽有环境审判庭出现,但远没有发挥其应有作用。以澳大利亚新南威尔士州土地环境法院为例,介绍该法院的设立背景、相关制度和经验,以期对我国环境法庭今后的发展有所裨益。     

法院拒不执行判决行为危害性及对策研究

“法院拒不执行生效判决”问题，尽管我国的立法尚未涉及，但却是司法实践中经常发生的问题，致使当事人合法权益得不到保护。本文分析法院拒不执行判决行为的危害性及其产生原因，并探讨如何解决这个问题的对策。