法律论证的正当性标准

法律论证是寻求法治合法性的一种理论追求,它承载着一项重要的使命,即寻求达致司法公正,实现社会正义之方法。通过运用论证方法,实现个案裁判之公正,彰显法治之目标。实践中,由于论证理路之不同,如何把握论证正当性标准便产生了不同观点。颇具代表性的有逻辑有效性、可接受性、融贯性。但由于每一种标准都具有一定的适用场域,它们有的是程序正义中的标准,有的是实体正义中的标准。因此,任何一种标准都不能单独作为法律论证的正当性标准,应当把它们综合运用到法律论证当中去。

The Legitimate Criterion of Legal Argumentation

As a theoretical pursuit for the legitimacy of constitutionality, legal argumentation carries an important mission searching for the way to achieve judicial justice and social justice. By the method of legal argumentation, we can attain the justice of adjudication in a specific case and thus manifest the objective of constitution. Owning to the diverse train of thoughts in the argumentation, there are different views concerning the legitimate criterion of legal argumentation, to name some: the effectiveness of the logic, acceptability and coherence. Each kind of criterion is applied in a specific field. Therefore, none of them alone can be regarded as the legitimate criterion of legal argumentation. However, the combination of them can instead.