Public interest litigation(PIL)with the public interest as the trial object is not only dispute settlement activity but also political activity via which the public participate in public affairs,whereby it is necessar...
The culture wars that simmer within any nation may have been escalating recently;but regardless of their national settings or milieus,many of these wars are informed by two opposing paradigms of culture.This paper ana...
My work on this article is partially supported by a Grant from the College of Professional and Continuing Education,an affiliate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Charles Taylor criticizes many liberal theories based on a kind of atomism that assumes the individual self-sufficiency outside the polity.This not only causes soft-relativism and political fragmentation but also unde...
The future of media ethics in the global age depends on the sophistication of its theoretical foundations.Theories are not abstract theorems,but include presuppositions and that deep level needs to be understood.Commu...
Peace can be understood as a pact for the perfection of institutions and through them the positivation of rights.In today’s world,international wars and conflicts are marked by the cultural identities to which they r...
The advancem ent and developm ent of com m unitarianism is based on the criticizing and questioning of neoliberalism. C om m unitarianism addresses the m aintenance of collective interests,social justice and national ...
Tensions and oppositions between the individual and community have accompanied the discourse on human rights from the beginning. I want to first recall how in the UDHR (1948) and in the major human rights treaties, ...
The aim of this paper is to discuss whether the increasing intervention of the state in the private sphere-as is evidenced in labor laws, consumer rights, bioethics, and Internet crimes-is compatible with the liberal ...