Emerging Legal Orders. Formalism and the Theory of Legal Integration

Using analogies from research in simulation and artificial societies and borrowing from Weinrib's Philosophy of Private Law, we show how a "private law" model of law and legal integration does not need to presuppose the state as a regulatory framework. Rather, the state emerges as a "second order property" from the private law interaction of individuals. We apply this to the debate about harmonisation in Europe. We show how a form of unity in diversity can be built up starting with such individual interactions, extended later to interactions between member states. But this does not need to end up in an individualistic and neo-liberal model, as in Weinrib, if we understand the underlying exchange relation in terms of Wilhelmsson's social contract law.     

On Giving Legal Form Its Due. A Study in Legal Theory

Abstract.  The four theses of this paper are: (1) that an appropriate organizational form is used to design, define, and organize a functional unit of a legal system, (2) that the functional units of a legal system, contrary to the emphasis in Hart and Kelsen, consist of far more than rules, and include institutions, interpretive and other methodologies, sanctions and remedies, and more, (3) that frontal and systematic study of the forms of these units is a major avenue for advancing understanding of them as duly organized wholes, and, (4) that such study reveals that much credit is due these forms, along with complementary material or other components of the units, for values realized through law.     

The Purpose of Legal Theory: Some Problems with Joseph Raz’s View

This article seeks to clarify Joseph Raz’s contention that the task of the legal theorist is to explain the nature of law, rather than the concept of law. For Raz, to explain the nature of law is to explain the necessary properties that constitute it, those which if absent law would cease to be what it is. The first issue arises regarding his ambiguous usage of the expression “necessary property”. Concurrently Raz affirms that the legal theorist has the following tasks: (a) explain the essential properties of that which the concept of law refers to, which exists independently from any concept of law; (b) explain the essential properties of law given our concept of law. After trying to dissolve the ambiguity of Raz’s argument, I conclude that based on his methodological commitments the only possible task for a legal philosopher would be conceptual analysis, understood as the task of explaining our concept of law.     

法律方法中的形式主义与反形式主义

法律形式主义已经成了法律理论中一个确定无疑的贬义词.形式主义实际上是法律方法中的元方法,过度的反法律形式主义会使自身陷入非法律形式主义的悖论,并使法学面临丧失自身自治性的危机.     

环境法律关系新论——法理视角的分析

本文通过对国外的和中国的、传统的和主流的法律关系理论的追根求源和分析,提出了“要区别法定关系与法律关系、现实关系与想象关系、原始关系与侵权关系”的观点,主张法律关系向法定关系靠拢、想象关系与现实关系脱钩、侵权关系与原始关系分开。提出了狭义的法律关系和广义的法律关系的概念。主张环境资源法律关系是指由法律行为(包括行为状态等各种行为)形成的人与人的关系和人与自然的关系,即环境资源法律关系既包括主体之间的人与人之关系或人与人之间的权利义务关系,又包括主体与客体之间的人与自然的关系。认为这种环境资源法律关系是一种广义的法律关系,环境资源法所调整的人与自然的关系是环境资源法规定的人与自然的关系即法定关系。     

良好秩序理论的超越:朗·富勒法律秩序观的建构--兼评富勒《社会秩序原理》

富勒将他有关良好秩序的研究界定为“有关良好的秩序以及可运行的社会诸安排的科学、理论或研究”,并将其命名为eunomics。eunomics本身既有实质的问题指向———关注公平的、公正的和尊重人之尊严的秩序,同时又是作为一种法律研究的方法在起作用。富勒对这一研究方法的具体践行主要体现为对法律程序的研究。富勒对良好秩序的研究以手段与目的关系的讨论为前提,该研究本身可被看作是对现代性的反思,同时也体现了对现代二分思维方式的克服和超越。     

当代法哲学视域下的墨家法律观

当代法哲学视域下,墨家法律观首先在事实性的有效性向度上,认定和证成了法律的文本性、符号性、行动性、规则性、规范性、普遍性以及强制性等事实性的张力;其次,在法律有效性的规范性向度上,墨家以法为天,认定法源自于天,法是天的根本意志的体现,而天的意志的实质乃是——具有正义、平等、实践三个显著特点的——兼爱利民;其三,在交往理性的向度上,墨家把法的产生和生成、法的有效性及其实现,置于"从事"、"说书"尤其是"谈辩"的世界里,提出了语用谈辩的交往法律观:把法的有效性标准及其检验看作是,透过"古者圣王"、"百姓耳目"、"百姓人民"中的谈辩——即经过多主体的交往理性,而达成的"中效"或"共识"。墨家的交往法律观主张通过多主体之间的平等"谈辩",来化解"事实性"与"规范性"之间的紧张关系,从而实现"兴天下之利"的良性互动。     

卢曼社会系统论视野中的法律自治

法律自治是现代法学理论的核心命题.1984年卢受写作<社会系统>之后,将功能-结构论转为自创生理论,从而在法的符号性自治、操作性自治、功能性自治与吊诡掩藏的欺骗性自治四个维度重新论证了现代法律的自治命题.法律自治作为卢受现代性隐喻的组成部分,尽管遭受来自各个方面的学术批判,却仍可为正在步入现代社会的我们提供一些重要的启示.     

Fledgling Psychopathy: A View from Personality Theory

Although the author agrees with Seagrave and Grisso that the research base does not yet support the use of extant measures of juvenile psychopathy in forensic settings, he disagrees with the general pessimism of Seagrave and Grisso regarding the assessment of juvenile psychopathy. The author argues that data drawn from basic research in personality argues against the concern that normative development changes will cloud the assessment of psychopathy. Additionally, the present author argues that fledgling psychopathy holds the key to successful intervention.     

论法学教育与司法考试的衔接——法律职业准入控制的一种视角

法学教育与司法考试的关系,是国家司法资格统一考试制度实施以来,为人们所关注和焦虑的一个重要课题。司法考试作为一种非常典型的法律职业准入控制措施,帮助我们营造了一个共同的语言、解释、价值、经历和身份的共同体,从而也决定性地正面促进了我国的法治建设。但是我们应该认识到司法考试不是万能的,它不能对法律从业者的法律素养作有效的考察和衡量,因此我们必须寻求有效的替代途径,而这正是法学教育,特别是法学院教育本身所具备的。美国法学院模式的成功对于我们构建法学院教育与司法考试的理想关系,提供了非常有意义的启发。     

美国女权主义法学:从中心到边缘

西方女权主义法学的兴盛是20世纪不可忽视的学术现象。90年代女权主义又与同时代风靡西方的反主流文化浪潮相契合,带有很强的反主流意识和批判意识,已经被公认为是后现代法学的一个主要的流派。通过对美国女权主义法学的产生背景、发展现状、研究对象以及美国女权主义法学的研究视角从中心到边缘的发展趋势的介绍,以期探讨西方这一新兴学派的发展以及后现代法学给现代法学的传统研究范式所带来的冲击。     

The Derivational Theory of Legal Interpretation in Polish Legal Theory

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique - The article presents so-called “derivational” theory of legal interpretation and...     

社会主义法治理念：一种知识形态的考察

亚里士多德把人类的知识划分成三种类型：理论知识、实用知识、制造知识。三者对应于后来所说的纯粹理性、实践理性、技艺。按照这样的知识分类,社会主义法治理念既具有实践理性的属性,也具有技艺的属性,但是,它在通常情况下,并不具有纯粹理性的属性。社会主义法治理念的这种知识属性,有助于辨析当代中国法律人的社会角色及其类型。     

Social Justice and Legal Form

Abstract
This essay argues for a conception of law as a normative practice, a conception which departs from traditional, particularly positivist, conceptions. It is argued that Dyzenhaus's book (Dyzenhaus 1991), with its fascinating case study of unjust judicial decisions in South Africa, makes a compelling argument for such a conception. However, the essay takes issue with Dyzenhaus for romanticising the liberal tradition, and inflating the power of law and legal theory. Nonetheless, the essay agrees that positivist accounts tend to downplay the emancipatory promise of law, and ends with some remarks about promise.     

Neil MacCormick's Second Thoughts on Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory. A Defence of the Original View

This paper offers a diachronic reconstruction of MacCormick's theory of law and legal argumentation: In particular, two related points will be highlighted in which the difference between the perspective upheld in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory and the later writings is particularly marked. The first point concerns MacCormick's gradual break with legal positivism, and more specifically the thesis that the implicit pretension to justice of law proves legal positivism false in all its different versions. The second point concerns MacCormick's acceptance of the one‐right‐answer thesis and the consequent thinning of the differences between MacCormick's theory of legal reasoning and that of Ronald Dworkin and of Robert Alexy. The intent, however, is not only to describe this change in MacCormick's thought, but also to attempt a defence of the original view that we find in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory.     

法律传统、国家形态与法理学谱系——重读柯克法官与詹姆斯国王的故事

柯克法官与詹姆斯国王的论争是西方法律史的经典故事,但西方学者的研究表明故事的本身可能并不是完全真实的。语境化地阅读故事的文本,可以发现詹姆斯的主张并非是完全违反常理或落后保守的,而是基于其本人与所属时代的哲学立场;而柯克的主张也并非是一味地反对王权,其理论的本身存在深刻的矛盾。在此基础上,从法律史、国家史与法理学三个角度对上述两种对立的主张进行解读,其背后实质是两种法律传统与两种国家形态的对立,同时也预示了现代法理学中两种根本观点的对立。