拯救法治——法律方法对法治的意义初探

法治建设所面临的困境在于,法治建设要求把法律付诸实施,这会暴露出法律的不足,使法律的权威受到挑战,出现法律信仰的危机,反而不利于法治建设。通过法律方法的运用有助于树立和维护法律的权威,促进法律信仰的形成,因而法律方法是对法治的拯救。在当前中国的法治建设中,法律方法发挥着重要作用,它可以解决既要维护法律的安定性又要使法律适应社会变革的矛盾,并在维护现有体制的前提下增进司法的功能。

A Primary Research on the Effect of Legal Method on the Rule of Law

Healing the Rule of Law ： To meet the demand of the construction of rule of law, the laws shall be brought into effect, which uncovers the shortcomings of the law, so the authority of law will be challenged and the belief in law comes to a crisis. Hence the rule of law is in a dilemma. Exercising the legal method is of benefit to building up the authority of law and forming the belief in law, so legal method is the salvation to the rule of law. During the process of constructing the rule of law in China, legal method exerts important influence, for it can uphold the invariability of law, help law to adapt to the development of society at the same time, and it can tone up the function of judicatory under the precondition of the existing system.