Parenting Disputes After Separation and Divorce: Who Needs a Family Lawyer?

Australia's family law system continues to be plagued by serious delays. This article acknowledges the need for legal interventions in post‐separation parenting disputes in which individuals may be at risk, or in cases of genuine emergency. The article next contrasts cases involving significant risk or urgency with the many ‘ordinary’ (even if sometimes complex) post‐separation disputes over parenting in which these circumstances are not present. I argue that in such cases, legal advice, legally informed dispute processes, and court hearings are remnants from earlier attitudes to separation and divorce. These interventions are expensive, frequently destructive of ongoing parental relationships, and at their heart, inappropriate for considering the needs of children. They also divert time and resources from the critical investigative and legal decision‐making processes needed in urgent or risk‐related cases. I propose that legal narratives in ‘ordinary’ post‐separation parenting disputes be replaced by narratives focused on the main drivers of these disputes, which are invariably expressed in terms of relationship difficulties. Such narratives are amenable to facilitative, therapeutic, and systemic interventions aimed at achieving self‐determined resolutions. They contrast markedly with narratives reflecting common law notion of normative resolutions derived from the application of legal precedent. Key issues in the first section of the article are then teased out via the reflections of an imaginary separated parent in an ‘ordinary,’ albeit difficult and emotionally intense, dispute about how to care for the children. In the final section, I offer brief clinical and systemic reflections on past practice and on future narratives focused on individual self‐determination.     

Museums and mining technologies

This article has a twofold purpose, first to explore how the founding of museums helps the mining industry to create a new way to look at what becomes natural in landscapes that are intervened by mining operations, and second to analyze how this new way of looking at the landscape ignites a process of recontextualization having a material impact on the territories. As part of this discussion, this article reveals how the technologies of mining production have evolved, facilitating the companies’ material production, and how the mining museum becomes a fundamental part of this technological development. This article looks at two mining museums owned or funded by the Chilean copper mine Los Pelambres, the ‘Museum of Copper and Sustainable Development’, located in Los Vilos next to Los Chungungos dock, and the ‘Andróniko Luksic Mining Center’, located in the engineering department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago. These museums are funded by the mining company Los Pelambres and one of them is currently managed by the company.     

对行政诉讼调解制度的冷思考

行政诉讼调解制度对当下中国的行政诉讼法发展有着不可忽视的消极作用,它将行政诉讼的目的定位为解决纠纷,淡化了行政诉讼保护相对人合法权益的目的,妨碍了行政诉讼独特的宪政功能的发挥,并导致了行政法规则在诉讼中的模糊化,使行政诉讼所承担的对行政法的告示、指引、预测、教育等作用无从发挥,行政违法的责任也随之淡化。而学界肯定行政诉讼调解制度的理由如行政裁量权的存在、中国无讼厌讼传统、外国存在相关制度等,均无法成立。由此,中国在当下不应建立行政诉讼调解制度。     

以多元化纠纷解决机制促和谐社会之构建

纠纷的合理解决是和谐社会的表现之一，引发社会纠纷的因素是多方面的，因此解决这些纠纷的途径和方式也应是多方面的。多元化纠纷解决机制就是在以司法诉讼程序为中心的同时，发挥各种非诉讼程序灵活解决纠纷、合理分配司法资源的作用，使各种纠纷解决方法有机的结合在一起，共同发挥作用。我国已拥有以法院调解、仲裁等为主的多种非诉讼纠纷解决程序，并初步形成了一个多元化的纠纷解决机制。但是这些非诉讼程序本身也存在着不足和滞后，因此，对我国现有的非诉讼纠纷解决方式的利弊作出客观评价，在尊重我国国情的基础上探索适合我国的具体模式，才能真正发挥多元化纠纷解决机制对和谐社会秩序构建的促进功能。     

民间调解的困境和出路探析

作为调解的一种重要形式,民间调解曾经在纠纷解决领域占有举足轻重的地位。在我国进入“诉讼时代”后,民间调解受到压制和质疑,面临困境。然而,面对越来越多的社会纠纷,诉讼已不堪重负,构建包括民间调解在内的多元化纠纷解决机制是必不可少的而且意义重大。本文分析了造成当前民间调解困境的诸多原因,探索了社会转型期民间调解重构的路径与方法等,使其与诉讼方式相得益彰,以发挥民间调解应有的不容忽视的优势和作用。     

合作社多元社会化服务的社员增收效应——基于山东省农户调研数据的“反事实”估计

基于山东省果蔬种植户的实地调查数据,采用内生转换回归模型(ESR)与因果中介分析模型(CMA),从社会化服务供给异质性视角检验了参加合作社对农户家庭务农收入的影响效果及作用机理。结果表明:参加合作社具有明显的促农增收效应;合作社的社会化服务有效供给对成员家庭务农收入的提升存在显著的因果中介效应,其中金融信贷服务、技术培训服务和生产流程服务对成员家庭务农收入提升的平均因果中介效应依次递增;尚无证据表明产品销售服务对成员务农收入存在显著影响。因此,在引导和鼓励农户加入合作社的同时,应重视强化合作社的社会化服务功能,适度扩大合作社的社会化服务供给规模。     

人口老龄化对经济增长的传导机制研究——基于民生支出路径

在探讨人口老龄化、民生支出、经济增长三者理论关系的基础上,利用我国2002～2016年各省年度数据对人口老龄化影响经济增长的效果和传导路径进行实证检验。研究结果显示:从全国样本来看,人口老龄化对经济增长产生显著正向影响,且存在以民生支出为中介变量的显著中介效应。我国东、中、西部地区人口老龄化显著促进经济增长,同时也存在以民生支出为中介变量的显著中介效应,但东部地区人口老龄化对经济增长的促进效用明显低于中西部地区。因此,在人口老龄化的推动下,政府应适当调整民生支出规模,提高其利用效率,从而缓解我国未富先老的现状,同时促进经济持续增长。     

乡土社会调解的法律文化学思考

调解一直是我国乡土社会重要的解纷方式,本文基于法律文化视角,从乡土社会的传统文化基础、现实法律文化背景以及国外解纷发展趋势三个方面,思考了在我国法治化进程中,调解在乡土社会解纷体系中的地位,认为在建构我国多元化的解纷体系时,应重视调解解纷机制的作用。     

高校辅导员调解能力提升路径研究

在高校学生管理中,辅导员是预防学生矛盾激化的“第一道防线”,这要求辅导员需要具备较强的调解能力。将从高校学生矛盾冲突的现状出发,挖掘辅导员在调节能力上的不足,剖析人民调解与高校学生管理的内在联系,提出高校辅导员调解能力提升的路径。     

刑事和解在审判阶段的制度构建

刑事和解系宽严相济刑事政策在诉讼中的具体体现,基于其特殊的价值,我国检察机关开始进行试点与探索,而对于具有普遍意义的刑事和解在审判阶段的应用并没有推开.自诉案件和刑附民案件程序的启动本身就决定于被害人,这类案件的和解并非普遍意义上的刑事和解.就刑事和解在审判阶段应用的价值、程序设置的主要问题进行评析,并在此基础上对程序设置的完善提出建议,以适用于审判实践.认为审判阶段进行刑事和解不仅提升了被害人的诉讼地位,同时,在一定程度上促使刑事审判的功能发生变化,与过去靠"打"来稳定社会治安的作用完全不一样,能使司法活动取得良好的社会效益,实现从有害正义到无害正义的进步,有利于社会和谐的构建.