运用法治逻辑推动环境审判体制改革

环境审判体制改革是在法治现代化建设和社会转型的大背景下,为实现环境司法专门化,推动环境正义,在法治正当性理念的指导下进行的一场环境司法改革。改革的逻辑起点在于加快经济发展方式的转变和保障人权,但实践中存在的良性违法现象带来的问题却是深刻的,长此以往,必不利于法治权威的维护。在社会主义法律体系形成之后,维护法治的权威是法治建设的主题,对改革也需要进一步的规范。对于环境审判体制改革,需要充分地运用法治逻辑的优势,以科学的法治思维和法治方式推动环境审判体制改革,维护司法的权威,强化司法的公信力。     

中国农村宅基地使用权流转的正当性辨析与立法构想

中国现行法律法规及相关政策严格限制农村宅基地使用权的流转,与市场经济条件下农村宅基地使用权流转的现实需求不符。允许农村宅基地使用权的流转与耕地保护并不矛盾,而农村宅基地使用权的生存保障功能也应被社会保障体系所替代。中国农村宅基地使用权流转的制度立法改革要有步骤地进行,改革初期宅基地使用权可以先允许有限制的流转,等待配套制度建设成熟后再推行自由流转。     

Watershed Planning: Pseudo-democracy and its Alternatives – The Case of the Cache River Watershed,Illinois

Watershed planning has typically been approached as a technical problem in which water quality and quantity as influenced by the hydrology, topography, soil composition, and land use of a watershed are the significant variables. However, it is the human uses of land and water as resources that stimulate governments to seek planning. For the past decade or more, many efforts have been made to create democratic planning processes, which, it is hoped, will be viewed as legitimate by those the plans regulate. This article uses a case study of the Cache River watershed in southernmost Illinois to analyze the complicated historical and political economic context of a specific watershed planning process that occurred from 1993 through 1995. This article assesses the claims made about the democratic, grass-roots, deliberative nature of the planning process and casts doubt on the legitimacy of its outcomes. It also proposes an alternative form of governance that would be both democratic and capable of generating outcomes viewed as legitimate by most affected parties. An earlier version of this paper was given at the conference, Environment, Resources, and Sustainability: Policy Issues for the 21st Century. Sponsored by the Culture & Agriculture Section of AAA, Anthropology and Environment Section of AAA, and American Anthropological Association Public Policy Committee. Hosted by the University of Georgia Department of Anthropology, Athens, Georgia, September 7–8, 2002.