古代中国“能动司法”的实践及特征

中国古代法官在司法实践过程中固然存在着巨大的自由裁量的主观性空间,但这种主观性并非完全基于古代法官任意,而是在封建统治者乃至整个社会对于司法实践结果的价值期待的范围之内,依靠长时期伦理教育及社会实践经验能动行使的结果。但古代中国在缺乏法律至上及逻辑规则制约下的能动司法,必然存在着专擅的司法、腐败的司法的巨大可能性。

The Practice and Characteristics of Judicial Activism in Ancient China

Abstract: The huge subjectivity of free judgment which of Ancient Chinese judges enjoyed in the judicial process,in the range of the value expectations of the feudal rulers and the whole community, is the result which Ancient Chinese judges carried out Active Judiciary by their long practical experience in ethics and social.The active judiciary in Ancient Chinabut does not mean the arbitrariness,however, in the absence of the supremacy of law and the logic rules,it's implement includes the enormous possibilities of judicial corruption and autarchy.