Improving Emergency Care for the Elderly

Much has been written on the developing role for social workers in hospital emergency rooms but little has focused specifically on social work interventions with elderly emergency room patients in an urban teaching hospital. A group of fifty patients over sixty-five years of age, referred to social service for assessment and assistance with home care issues, is described. The emergency room social worker's role with these elderly patients is highlighted and three case examples are discussed. It is argued that social work interventions improve the quality of both emergency and ongoing care for this growing and often at risk population.     

法律变迁的结构性制约——国家、市场与社会互动中的中国律师职业

对改革开放以来中国法律体系变迁根源的探讨,通常遵循国家主义的认识论,即国家意志主导甚至决定了法律体系变迁的所有方面。这种认识论虽然能够较好说明改革开放初期法律体系在中国的再造,但是未能全面把握当前的复杂情况。本文以律师职业在改革开放时期的变迁为例,利用定量数据和实证方法说明国家、市场和社会对法律体系的多重动态影响,提出法律变迁的“结构性制约”理论框架。改革开放以来中国法律体系变迁已逐步由国家主导的格局,演变成国家、市场、社会和法律体系之间相互直接和间接影响的格局。     

A Legal Structure for Limiting the Agency Cost of Stock Rights Transfer

The unilateral disposition of stock rights’ voting rights detracts from the welfare of the other shareholders. Contractual arrangements restricting or prohibiting the transfer of stock rights under the capital majority rule may infringe upon shareholders’ right of withdrawal, further weakening stock market constraints on senior management and indirectly raising the agency cost of management abuse of power for private ends. In creating a legal structure for stock rights transfer, we need to find an appropriate balance between freedom of contract, capital majority rule and reduction of agency costs. Judges should determine that the transfer of voting rights is invalid in order to ensure that voting rights match residual claim rights and maintain the constraints on senior management represented by shareholder voting rights. The general prohibition of stock rights transfer in the articles of association blocks shareholders’ right of withdrawal; this is not conducive to restraining potential abuses of power on the part of senior management and should be made invalid. Judges must differentiate between long- and short-term contracts and the initial and revised clauses of the articles of association in order to distinguish between the efficacy of different arrangements limiting transfer of stock rights as laid down in the articles of association.     

论占有制度的法律价值——兼论《物权法》中占有制度的完善

作为一项重要的物权制度,占有的法律价值主要体现在秩序价值、公平价值和效率价值三个方面。从价值的角度来看,我国《物权法》中关于占有的规定还存在一些不足,需要在明确占有权利、确立公示公信、补充权利推定三个方面加以完善。     

试论中国-东盟自由贸易区争端解决机制

自由贸易区的建立促使其成员方的国际贸易和投资自由化,同时,也使国际争端增多。国际争端的恰当解决,很大程度依靠于争端解决的方式,法律方式在当今社会中因为其有效而可以预期,因此逐渐成为人们喜欢采用的方法。中国—东盟自由贸易区(CAFTA)顺其潮流,制订和签署了《中国—东盟全面经济合作框架协议的争端解决机制协定》。如何解读并评价这一解决机制成了当务之急,中国和东盟各国应在实践中不断地加以改进和完善。     

电信监管机构法律地位研究

为了建立科学的电信监管体制,对世界各国电信监管机构的法律地位进行了研究,并对中国的电信监管体制进行了简要分析。从世界范围看,多数国家通过电信立法确立电信监管机构的法律地位。电信监管机构不仅应当依法设立,而且应当独立行使职权,不受来自政府和企业的限制和约束。因此,中国应当适时建立专门性的融合型电信监管机构。     

美国“次债”危机对完善我国信贷资产证券化制度的启示

美国"次债"危机缘于其个人住房信贷资产证券化过程中各个链条存在的一系列风险控制漏洞。在我国金融业已经开始信贷资产证券化业务试点及推广工作的现实情况下,分析总结美国此次"次债"危机的经验教训,对于完善我国信贷资产证券化法律制度,提高资产证券化实际运作中的风险控制能力,无疑具有重要的现实意义。本文通过对美国"次债"危机原因的分析,从"规范银行放贷程序"、"强化发行机构和受托机构信息披露不实的责任"、"改善信用评级机制"、"加强对资产证券化业务的监管"等几个方面,提出了完善我国信贷资产证券化法律制度的立法建议。     

西方自然法传统再解读——以法律伦理学为视角

西方自然法传统源远流长,她从来就不是一个被单独创造的理论,自然法理论的种种创造都是在或大或小的困境前对自然法理念的阐发和运用.正因为如此,她不停地转换着自己的表现形态.但是,在这纷繁的表象背后,自然法有其产生的根源,有着被众多追寻者认同的基本特征.本文以历史上曾被创造出来的那些从大的理论框架体系中抽取出来的自然法理论为研究对象,以法律伦理学为视角,从道德与法律的内在联系出发,对他们进行重新的审视和探讨.     

法人侵权行为基本理论探讨

随着社会经济的发展,法人侵权现象也越来越普遍.从法人本质分析,若将"法人拟制说"中的拟制技巧与"法人实在说"实在意志结合起来,就可以把作为法人机关的自然人和作为法人雇员执行职务的意志视为法人的意志.从而得出法人有侵权行为能力的结论;从实用主义和立法技巧路径出发,根据侵权制度设计好坏判断标准分析,法人也是应当有侵权行为能力的.在此前提下,本文又分别从法人本质路径和实用主义路径入手,详细探讨了法人侵权行为的构成要件,并且在对各国民法关于法人侵权的立法进行比较分析后认为,我未来民法典应该吸收<民法通则>的成功经验,对法人机关及其受托人或受雇人执行职务过程中的侵权行为的责任分配予以一体把握,采法人侵权责任"一体式"的立法模式.     

Fortress Europe’s far-flung borderlands: ‘Illegality’ and the ‘deportation regime’ in France’s Caribbean and Indian Ocean territories

ABSTRACT

This article argues that the French overseas territories of the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, which are also European ‘outermost regions,’ make up the first borders of ‘Fortress Europe,’ geographically, historically and legislatively. Since the 1980s, a set of laws, described as ‘laws of exception,’ place the majority of the foreign residents in a state of ‘illegality.’ These overseas territories are in the vanguard of a French ‘regime of deportation’ that targets foreign nationals, indigenous populations and former colonial subjects. They are places of experimentation for legal exceptions, which are then implemented in metropolitan France. This paper will analyze how the reinforcement of borders contradicts the popular and scholarly representation of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean as sites of mobility.