是君主喜好还是元首决定具有法律效力——对元首制时期和优士丁尼时代罗马宪政的考察

本文以对Quod principi placuit,legis habet vigorem的正确翻译为起点,还原了帝政分权时期元首与元老院分权、共治的宪政局面,批驳了罗马无宪法论以及私法巨人、公法矮子论,揭示了某些英语世界的作家故意误译上述拉丁短语以彰显英国宪政优越论的阴谋,展示了短语作者乌尔比安的思想体系中的宪政倾向,对延长西方宪政史的时间链条具有特别的意义。

Emperor's Fancy or His Decision of More Legal Force:A Study of Constitutionalism in the Principate and That in Justinian Time

This paper,taking as its starting point the translation of quod principi placuit,legis habet vigorem, intends to reconstruct the constitutional panorama of power-sharing and co-governance by the princeps and the senatus,rebuts the doctrines of inexistence of constitutional law in Roman people and the saying that Roman law is a giant of private law while a dwarf of public law, and discloses a complot operated by some English-speaking authors to make up a doctrine of superiority of England’s constitutionalism by means of willful mistranslation of the aforesaid Latin maxim. Further, it maintains that the constitutional tendency in the thoughts of Ulpian (the author of the maxim) is of special significance to ascertain the origin of the Western constitutionalist history.