法律理性与法律的技术化

现代法律制度的每一个建构性要素及其运作过程的每一个环节,都表现出很强的技术性特征,这使得法律成为一种典型的社会技术。法律技术铸成了法律的确定性,使法律规范系统化;它划定了行为合法与不法的界限,使人们对自己的行为后果更有预期。可以说,技术化是法律理性在形式方面最重要的表现,而实践的特点决定了理性必然是形式理性与实质理性的统一,作为法律价值的载体和法律目的的支持系统,法律技术本身也是法治的基本条件之一。因此,法律的技术性特征及其意义应当受到重视,法律技术的功能也有待于我们加以深入地研究。

Legal Rationality and Legal Technology

Every construct element and every operational tache of the modern legal system shows strong technical characteristic,which makes the law to become a typical social technology.Legal technology induces legal certainty and the systematization of legal norms,delimits the boundary between legality and illegality.The technology is the most important manifestation of legal rationality,and the legal rationality must be the unity of formal rationality and essential rationality,and as the carrier of legal value and the support of legal purpose,it should be the basic condition of nomocracy.Therefore,the technical characteristic and significance of the law should be taken seriously,and the function of legal technology needs also an in-depth study.