国际海事商人法断思——一个民间法的角度

海事商人法具有悠久的历史,在政治权力介入商事立法之前,商人们早就在交易中自己"制定"了交易规则。现代商人法是在古代习惯法和中世纪商人法的基础上建立起来的法律制度,并吸收了商人法的原则与制度。与制定法相比较,现代商人法具有其自身的特性:自主性、灵活性与合规律性。这些特性决定了现代商人法在调整国际商事交易中有更大的优势,能更好的契合商事交易的现实,符合商人对利益和正义的追求,体现了商事交易的国际性和统一性。

Reconsideration on the Law of International Maritime and Merchant

Maritime and merchant law has a long history,which is made by merchants themselves in their commercial practice long before political power intervenes in it.Modern law of maritime and merchant is based on ancient customary rules and the Middle Ages merchant law,and incorporated the principles aforesaid.Compared with legislation,modern law merchant has it own features: independence,flexibility and regularity,which assure that modern merchant law has greater advantages in dealing with international commercial trade,more accommodates with the reality of trade,and embodies the merchants' pursuit of profits and justice,demonstrating internationality and uniformity of international trade.