Posted in China, In English, Joke on Nov 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Flat Cat Controversy in China Ends
( Please note there is a new post on this topic: Flat Cat Continues to Live on Paper, and Face has been lost )
Science on its Nov 2007 issue published a photo named “flat cat?” and a column article RARE-TIGER PHOTO FLAP MAKES FUR FLY IN CHINA. They were [...]
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Posted in Comments, In English, comments on news on Nov 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Two law professors, Adrian Vermeule of Harvard and Cass R. Sunstein of Chicago, have raised a new argument for capital punishment. Based on the economic analysis that the execution carried out is correlated with fewer murders the following year, they stated that “capital punishment may be morally required, not for retributive reasons, but rather to [...]
Posted in China, In English, reading on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
In the late 1890s, political and ideological changes produced dramatic episodes of reform and revolution that in 191 1 ended the imperial system in China. Part of this process was the growth of a nationally conscious public opinion, which stimulated demands for redistribution of political power and led to new forms of group organization and [...]
Posted in China, In English, reading on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
by CHRISTOPHER M. ISETT
CONTRACT AND PROPERTY IN EARLY MODERN CHINA, Edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko and Robert Gardella.
In his overarching study of China’s legal tradition (Law and Society in Traditional China [Paris: Mouton and Co.]), published in 1961, Ch’ü T’ungtsu’s few references to property are largely tangential to discussions of the family and [...]
Posted in In English, reading on Nov 15th, 2007 No Comments »
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/guorui/files/2007/11/jews.pdf
Posted in In English, news on Nov 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Harold J. Berman, expert in Soviet law, legal history, and law and religion: 1918-2007
November 13, 2007
From Harvard Law School Webpage
Posted in In English, news on Nov 13th, 2007 No Comments »
按: 美国著名法学家哈罗德.伯尔曼今晨在纽约去世, 享年89岁.伯尔曼一生教书育人, 桃李满天下.他早年执教哈佛, 后为埃默里大学礼聘，荣膺埃默里最高荣誉之讲席Robert W. Woodruff讲席教授。 伯尔曼巨著《法律与革命》在美国影响巨大，翻成中文后更成为一代中国法律学人之必读书目。
Berman (1918-2007) was Pioneer of Law and Religion
11/13/07
Harold J. Berman
Emory Law Professor Harold J. Berman, honored and respected for his scholarship and passion for the law, passed away in New York City today, Tues., Nov. 13, 2007. He was 89.
Posted in China, In English, in Chinese, news, 中文 on Nov 10th, 2007 No Comments »
雅虎: 技术巨人,道德侏儒 (Yahoo!: tech giant, moral pygmy)
By Marie Boran
07.11.2007 - At a congressional hearing in Washington yesterday Yahoo! was called on to defend the role it played in the 10-year prison sentence for Chinese journalist, Shi Tao. Back in February the company claimed that when it handed over details of Tao’s email account it wasn’t [...]
Posted in In English, reading on Nov 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Why Putin Wins
By Sergei Kovalev