林曦博士赴澳大利亚悉尼大学访学
12月1日至12月7日，应澳大利亚悉尼大学（University of Sydney）语言与艺术学院（School of Languages & Arts）、社会科学研究院（Institute of Social Sciences）以及孔子学院（Confucius Institute）的邀请，复旦大学社会科学高等研究院专职研究人员林曦博士赴悉尼访学一周。在澳洲期间，林曦博士参加了悉尼大学的数项学术活动。
12月3日，林曦博士参加了悉尼大学民主企划研究院（Sydney Democracy Initiative）举办的“告别社会民主？”（Farewell to Social Democracy？）国际学术研讨会。该研讨会旨在探讨社会民主政治的历史、现状与未来。来自全球各大高校（包括柏林洪堡大学、牛津大学、拉筹伯大学（La Trobe University）、新南威尔士大学、莫纳什大学、复旦大学等）的20多位与会学者就社会民主的概念、历史形态以及时下所遭遇的困境等方面进行了热烈的讨论。
12月4日，林曦博士应邀参加悉尼大学语言与艺术学院与新南威尔士美术馆（New South Wales Art Gallery）举办的“秦始皇国际学术研讨会”（The First Emperor Symposium），以配合在该美术馆展出的秦陵兵马俑。该研讨会旨在向澳大利亚公众介绍有关秦代中国的概况、秦皇陵的考古及发掘工作以及对秦朝文化的研究和解读等。来自中国西北大学、悉尼大学、牛津大学、麦吉尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）、斯坦福大学等高校的与会学者，就秦皇陵的考古、兵马俑的象征意义、秦代中国的文化等进行了主题演讲。
12月7日下午16点至18点，林曦博士在悉尼大学法学院026阶梯教室进行了一场题为《情理：变通型正义观的理论建构》的讲座。林曦博士从情理的“中国式衡平传统说”入手，讨论了当下有关情理研究的局限和困境，并在此基础上从方法论的描述主义角度对情理进行了初步的理论理论建构，提炼出“变通型正义观”的理论架构。听众既有来自悉尼大学的师生，也有来自澳大利亚新南威尔士州议院的议员以及来自社会各界、对中国法律和文化感兴趣的人士。他们就中国法律中情理的概念、司法现状以及制度建设等方面与林曦博士进行了深入的交流。
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Public lecture: A Theoretical Outline of Transformative Justice in China
29 November 2010
The University of Sydney Confucius Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and the Institute of Social Sciences presents a public lecture on the distinctive phenomenon of Qingli in Chinese law.
In this lecture, Dr Daniel Lin will argue that Qingli (perhaps best translated as "commonsense") represents a conception of transformative justice, in the sense that it can play a role in transforming and making flexible legal rules, principles, or texts, when hardship occurs during their rigid application.
It follows two propositions: (1) when law encounters or engenders difficulty during its legislation, application or interpretation, certain non-positive legal, universal rules will have to be introduced in order to make flexible the rigidity of written law; (2) the solution is a transformative application of legal rules, rather than adherence to a literal reading of legal texts. This tentative theorisation is starting from a Hartian descriptive methodology, without reference to the normative content of particular laws or contexts. With its focus on patching up interpersonal relationships, Qingli may even provide a cure for our alienated post-contractarian world.
Dr. Daniel Lin (Lin Xi) received his doctorate from the London School of Economics in 2008. Currently a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at Fudan University, he is also a Visiting Researcher in the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), London School of Economics. Dr. Lin has taught at the London School of Economics, SOAS, and the European Research Centre, Renmin University of China. His main research interests include jurisprudence, comparative politics and anthropology.
When: Tuesday 7 December
Time: 4:00pm
Where: New Law Building, Lecture Theatre 026