| Volume 6, Number 1, January 2009 |
Polarization Effect and the Coming Global
Food Crisis
by 周立 Zhou Li |
What Makes a Good Lawyer?
The Official Awards
by Roderick O’Brien 山显治 |
I had several arguments with Han Deqiang before, but now our views are getting closer in some respects.(1) More than ever, it is mine that is getting closer to his. For instance, I have been making continuous progress in understanding his positive feedback and passive feedback mechanism for the past few years although I’m exploiting wordings, such as equalization and polarization, as well as the-stronger-get-stronger and the-poorer-get-poorer, to indicate the trend of development of the world. The positive feedback and passive feedback mechanism of Han Deqiang in his expression is a natural and scientific term, while mine is a social scientific one.
The Self-Reinforcement of Wealth and Poverty
What I want to say is that the world has, indeed, come to its end. The reason is the mode of our development, because this is a mechanism that the stronger get stronger and the weaker get weaker—a mechanism of self-reinforcement of wealth and of poverty and a mechanism that is tending towards automatic destruction...
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What Makes a Good Lawyer?
The Ministry of Justice and the All-China Lawyers Association have their perspectives on this question. Through their reports, we find those lawyers who are models in a growing profession. We can examine some of the stories, and some of the criteria used to acclaim China’s lawyers for success in professional life. But the reader must keep in mind that it is the Ministry and its protégé the All-China Lawyers Association which are providing the criteria—not the legal consumer.
An alternative insight into what makes a good lawyer is to look at the shadows, and to see cases when lawyers are punished for being unethical or dishonest or incompetent. There are punishments and penalties for such lawyers, but they lie beyond the scope of this article. We are looking at those lawyers who are held up to the light.
The “Double Good” Campaign
In January 2008, the All-China Lawyers Association began a new campaign to appraise good lawyers and law firms at the national level...
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The Sorcerer’s
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