景凯旋教授成都《昆德拉与我们》讲座记录
from: http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/Content…
昆德拉与我们
这次回四川，主要是为了探亲，顺便也想会会几位朋友。承王怡兄、云飞兄的邀请，要我来讲一下昆德拉。起初，我有点踌蹰，因为九十年代伊始，我就不太关注这 位作家了。昆德拉在中国走红了十几年，谈论他的文字不少，做他的博士论文的也有，尽管读到此类文字，我总是感到有点缺然，但我自己也未必能有什么新见。再 者，我虽然教书近二十年，却很少做公开的讲演，怕讲不好，浪费了别人的时间。我想我是一个好听众，但可能不是一个好的讲演者，这是我预先要申请大家谅解 的。
我今天要谈的题目是：昆德拉与我们。一个中欧小国的作家，受到中国人如此长期的关注、谈论，似乎已经超出了文学的范围，与中国当下语境发生了一种关系。这种关系是怎么产生的？跟我们到底有什么意义？今天我就试着从这个方面，来谈论昆德拉。 (more…)
Direct Shareholder Democracy: Reflections on Lucian Bebchuk
by Larry Catá Backer
邓肯.肯尼迪：次贷市场贷款拖欠情形下债权人保护规则的损益分析
See full text.
希拉里不久前在演讲中描述自己在某国遇险经历，后被媒体指撒谎。电视台调出当时拍摄的录像，结果所谓遇险–根据希拉里的描述，自己和女儿不得不在枪林弹雨中逃脱–根本是子虚乌有。希拉里近来领先优势消失，这次又损失公信力，可谓是雪上加霜。
How will Chinese Securities Market change in 2008?
Maybe we can find some clue from Wen Jiabao’s 2008 government report, in which he defines the job of government in 2008 is to “… convert SOEs into stockholding corporations;” “…improve corporate governance, carry out policy-mandated closures and bankruptcies, separate SOEs’ secondary businesses from their core businesses, and convert the former into independent companies; “”…improve the structure of the capital market, promote steady and sound development of the stock markets, strive to improve the performance of listed companies, and maintain an open, fair and equitable market environment.”
Note that there is no such things in Wen’s report as “protection of minority shareholder” or “solve the problem of controlling shareholder’s abuse of power in securities market.” The government’s priority is rather the the reform of SOEs. The securities market is an instrument in such reform, not a goal by itself. Hence we can predict that in 2008, although securities market reform will continue, it will not bring in any fundamental change. Chinese minority shareholders–1600 million in total according to CSRC’s latest update–expected that the government could redeem the securities market from a casino style one, but the government now has let them down. The market will continue to be a playground of SOEs. If they do better this year, which is very unlikely to happen, the benefits may trickle down to the minority shareholders under the condition that the epidemic market speculation is uprooted, which is also very unlikely to happen.
It doesn’t sound good to securities investors. Well, don’t jump to conclusion so quickly. I have to stress that my comment is solely based on the publicly available government report, and it is well known that Chinese government does not always put everything under the sun. The government may very well have an agenda that does not closely follow the report.
See full text of the 2008 Chinese government report.
[刘南平博士数年前发文批评法学界流行的“没有命题”的论文模式，起到了积极的作用。不过，“论文的全部内容必须是围绕一个基本观点而展开”的常识，还没有真正变成常识，重温刘博士的文章实有必要。]
法学博士论文的“骨髓”和“皮囊”
刘南平
引子
这是一篇迟来的文稿。相信本文的观点会受到我国法学界同仁的非议甚至责难。
说它迟来，是因为本文中的基本观点早在10年前就已成形。
那时，笔者正在美国耶鲁法学院攻读法学博士学位，博士论文的撰写已是一年有半。论文的结构和主要内容大致底定，几个章节（包括导言）早已草就。总之，对论文写什么，怎么写是胸有成竹。在一次与论文主导教授的见面中，[ii]笔者同时呈上拟好的几个章节，主导教授却有意识地单独抽出导言部分读起来。他看得很快，似乎在寻找甚么。阅后，他认真地说道：”不行。这篇论文没有命题（thesis）”。我当时被他这句话给蒙住了！心想，这老头真会捉弄人。我随他做论文研究已一年有半，而且保持著经常的联系，他为甚么忽然这个时候提出这个问题，这是不是在为难我。埋怨归埋怨，但心里很清楚：主导教授通不过，一切都免谈。於是乎，我们就甚么是命题，怎样有可能寻到一个通得过的命题讨论了好半天。这其间，我争辩道，在中国做博士论文是不要求有命题的。他也毫不客气地回答说：“对不起，这个地方（指耶鲁法学院）要。” (more…)
Joshua Kurlantzick published a comment on Boston Globe called State Inc. Kurlantzick discusses “authoritarian capitalism,” by which he refers to the countries that have state owned companies and a capitalist economy, such as, China, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
The author notices that
Over the past 25 years, while keeping firm control over its economy, China has adopted many of the tools of capitalism – ceding some operational power to a Western-trained executive class, inviting foreign investment and partnerships, and buying and selling on the global open market.
Beijing has also selected a range of strategic industries to develop, from oil to telecommunications to automobiles. By creating the state-owned China National Chemical Corporation in 2004, Beijing birthed a plastics manufacturing giant, one that quickly swallowed foreign companies like Qenos, one of the biggest plastics firms in Australia. State-owned Chinese automaker Nanjing Automobile bought up famed British car brand MG Rover, while Huawei, boosted by massive loans from state-linked Chinese banks, has expanded around the globe, even trying to take over US tech giant 3Com, a deal essentially scuttled by Congress.
The article can be found here.
佟柔先生与民法经济法论争
（梁慧星）
1979年，中国社会科学院法学研究所邀请在京法律院系的学者专家，召开了那次著名的民法经济法讨论会，由此揭开了中国法学史上蔚为奇观的民法学派与经济 法学派的那场大论战的序幕。在那次会上，主张所谓“大民法”观点最力、最为旗帜鲜明的，是佟柔先生和王家福先生。当时，所谓“大经济法”观点即苏联拉普捷 夫、马穆托夫的经济法主张影响很大。也有学者建议采纳捷克斯洛伐克立法模式，即同时制定一部经济法典和一部民法典，经济法典规范社会主义组织间的经济关 系，民法典规范公民间的经济关系。甚至有人主张废弃民法这一称谓，改为“公民权利法”。于是演成长达七年之久的两派大混战，不仅民法学界和经济法学界的学 者悉数卷入论争，就是许多法理学者、宪法学者和行政法学者，也被潮流所挟，被迫表明立场，所发表文章数量之巨，所耗费的人力、物力，难以计数。 (more…)
华尔街杂志律师博客日前发表一篇分析文章，指贝尔斯登股东可能以诉讼方式阻止JP摩根的并购。股东提起诉讼的直接的原因是，贝尔斯登股价日前已经飙升到5.33，而JP摩根的并购价格只有2.34。股东可能会指董事会未能尽责磋价，从而违反了其忠信义务。
在华尔街杂志律师博客的分析文章里，接受采访的 Gordon Smith （BYU Law School）教授认为该诉讼不大可能会成功；但在文章的评论里，另一位提出了不同意见，认为特拉华州法院的判决不可预测–言下之意，讲股东会输官司太过随意。
发表时间:2008-3-16 11:45:00
中国导入法律硕士建制的特色是把原有的本科通才教育模式与美国式职业教育模式并列。日本推行法科大学院的特色是两者的顺接。经过几年实践可以看出，日本的改革虽然还不能说是失败的，但的确问题很多、成本太高，最近已有倒退或修正的呼声。中国的法律硕士班也存在异化倾向，变质成为法律本科教育的一种速成班，甚至创收工具，现实与当初的理想相去甚远。
鉴于上述教训，在中国稳健地推动法学教育制度改革的基本方向应该是：适当吸收法国模式和美国模式的优点并结合既存的客观条件加以重新组合，把现有本科教育与职业教育结合起来考虑各种制度安排。如果采取这样改革模式，对现有的法律本科、法学研究生院以及国家法官学院和国家检察官学院基本建制不必做伤筋动骨的大手术，只要在经审查被认定为合格的优良院系切实改编课程设置和改进教育的方式方法以及内容（当然还有发掘、培养以及重新配置教师的工作）就可以逐步达到提高法律职业教育水准的目标。