Qualified privilege: A defense for the public relations function

Technology continues to challenge the public relations practitioner to find ways to inform key constituents. The new technology has given rise to the “new journalism” that includes a declining traditional media and exploding internet media filled with websites and bloggers. The question posed by this research asks: Does the public relations practitioner inherit the same protection offered by “qualified privilege” that is most often associated with the traditional “press” or “reporter?” The research lays a foundation with an examination of defamation and the defense of qualified privilege. The research concludes that if information gathered by the public relations practitioner meets the “intent” and “content” tests, the information qualifies as news. Passing the “news” test, the defense of “qualified privilege” also attaches to the public relations practitioner.     

行政合同特权探析

行政合同特权是行政合同的一个重要内容 ,它基于行政合同的行政性以及公共利益优位理念而产生。无论是国外还是国内 ,理论抑或实践 ,行政合同特权都是现实存在的。平衡行政合同特权 ,回归“合同”性质是行政合同特权与契约精神碰撞与协调的归宿。深入研究行政合同特权理论对我国行政合同制度的构建以及行政合同立法都有重要的理论和现实意义     

论可转换公司债券的转换制度

转换制度是可转换公司债券的核心。本文从转换权的性质及实现、转换价格和转换期间三方面进行研究。笔者同意转换权属于形成权的观点、因为其有利于保护可转换公司债券债权人的利益。比较面额转换和市价转换两种转换价格方式 ,主张我国应确立市价转换体制 ;比较转换期间的定期转换和随时转换两种制度 ,则随时转换利大于弊 ,应成为笔者建议的模式     

Resistance as Sacrifice: Toward an Ascetic Antiracism

Often described as an outcome, inequality is better understood as a social process—a function of how institutions are structured and reproduced, and the ways people act and interact within them across time. Racialized inequality persists because it is enacted moment to moment, context to context—and it can be ended should those who currently perpetuate it commit themselves to playing a different role instead. This essay makes three core contributions. First, it highlights a disturbing parity between the people who are most rhetorically committed to ending racialized inequality and those who are most responsible for its persistence. Next, it explores the origin of this paradox—how it is that ostensibly antiracist intentions are transmuted into “benevolently racist” actions. Finally, it presents an alternative approach to mitigating racialized inequality, one that more effectively challenges the self‐oriented and extractive logics undergirding systemic racism, rather than expropriating blame to others, or else adopting introspective and psychologized approaches to fundamentally social problems, those sincerely committed to antiracism can take concrete steps in the real world—actions that require no legislation or coercion of naysayers, just a willingness to personally make sacrifices for the sake of racial justice.     

Women Elite Leaders Doing Respectable Business Femininity: How Privilege is Conferred,Contested and Defended through the Body

This paper offers a theory of respectable business femininity. Respectable business femininity is theorized as a discursive and relational process that explains tensions women elite leaders experience at the nexus of being both One and Other and sometimes privileged, embedded notions of leadership as masculine and wider expectations of acceptable embodied femininity. Such tensions manifest through a disciplining of women leaders’ bodies and appearance by self‐and‐others, as a means of appraising women as credible elite leaders and respectable women. Through a qualitative study we show how, within sites of ambiguity, embodied leadership and subjectivities are both enabled and constrained. Accounts highlight how privilege is fluid and (de)stabilized in that it is conferred, contested and defended through women's bodies and appearance. We advance understandings of contemporary respectable femininity, privilege at work, and body work, and consider practical implications for women leaders and management education.     

Kindergartners’ Development of Privileged Subjectivities within an Elite School

This case study investigates how kindergarten children thought and talked about their school in three socially stratified school settings: public, charter and private, and the extent to which they grasped sociocultural understandings related to social class. Data included field notes, interviews with the children and teachers, and parent surveys. A Bourdieuian lens illuminated emergent themes. Results indicate that children in the elite setting had developed sophisticated understandings of their privileged social locations and understood their position as distinct from other children.     

论假释的副作用及其克服——以假释权利观为视角

假释制度符合行刑社会化的潮流和趋势,对实现刑罚的目的来说,它有积极的功能,也有副作用。传统的假释奖励观不利于假释制度应有功效的发挥,要从根本上克服假释的负作用,必须树立假释权利观。     

中外叙事文学中的“后母／继子乱伦”叙事——“乱伦”母题与中外叙事文学研究系列论文之一

“后母／继子乱伦”叙事模式的作品触及人类集体无意识中的“乱伦情结”与“乱伦禁忌”的深层心理。后母／继子乱伦”现象是专制的父权文化的产物，“后母”乃至“继子”承载着对父权文化的批判与表现人性解放的双重道德任务，表现了一种“渎父”或“精神弑父”的主题。她（他）们的悲剧性的命运结局体现了作家对这种现象微妙而复杂的态度：在无限宽容的同时，也隐含对乱伦原罪感几分不自觉的认同。     

也议沉默权

中国能否移植确立沉默权制度,是刑事法律制度需要回答和解决的问题。笔者认为,在我国刑事法律制度中应当明确规定沉默权,这是与世界法律接轨、实现依法治国的需要,是保证公民合法权利的需要,是防止司法权滥用的需要,是法制文明、社会进步的标志,是司法公正的前提和体现。     

从新闻来源失实看媒体承担的有限法律责任

近年来 ,我国一些媒体的报道因为新闻来源的失实而造成了新闻纠纷 ,其间媒体及其从业者也免不了承担相应的法律责任 ,媒体的声誉与权威性也因此而受损。因此 ,新闻媒体及从业人员应明确自身的责任 ,维护自身的权益 ,在确保新闻的真实性的同时 ,加强新闻法律意识 ,以避免不必要的新闻纠纷