法律世界观紊乱时代的司法、民意和政治——以李昌奎案为中心

李昌奎案代表了一类"简单的""难办案件",无论法官如何决策,处理结果都不能取得良好的法律效果和社会效果。该案反映出这是一个法律世界观缺乏整体性和融贯性的时代。民意、司法与政治之间复杂的互动,以及社会对刑事司法系统的不信任,虽非中国特有的问题,但暴露出部分中国司法人员和学者对司法公信力、合法性、稳定性的理解是单维、偏颇的,缺乏健全的司法理念。经由对该案的讨论,本文强调,司法应该弥合而不是加大法律与社会的差距,如果司法要参与社会变革,它必须满足民众对公正的基本心理需求。另一方面,新媒体的兴起,使人们得以在事件流中辨识法律的社会意义,多元的法律世界观有可能获得融贯。

Judicature,Public Opinion,and Politics at An Age of Disordered Legal World View:A Study Centered on the Case of Li Changkui

The Case of Li Changkui represents a kind of simple "hard case",in which whatever the judge made a decision,result of the case failed to gain good social and legal effects,and the causation,however,rested on the internal system of judicature.The Case of Li reflects an age at which legal world view is deficient in coherence and integration.Although it’s not an exclusive problem for China that judicature,public opinion and politics interact complicatedly,and the society shows distustt upon the criminal justice system,it reveals that,in the case of Li,some judicial personnel and academics hold an uni-dimensional and prejudiced understanding on the credibility,legitimacy and stability of judicature.It’s argued,based on the case of Li,that judicature should operate to bridge,rather than widen,the gap between law and society.To achieve the goal of changing society,judicature has to meet the public’s basic psychological demands upon equity.It’s also argued that the development of media has contributed to help the public identify and understand the social meanings of the law in a flow of events.In this sense,it becomes possible to achieve some coherence among plural legal wold views.