法律的不确定性与法治的可能性

法律的不确定性并不意味着法律合法性的丧失和法治理想破灭。法律体系必然包括不确定的法律。法律不确定性与法律的客观性是相容的。主流法律理论并不必然坚持法律的确定性立场，但是必然坚持法律的客观性立场。法治理念的经典阐述者富勒、拉兹和菲尼斯都强调法律的明确性、可预测性和稳定性。他们都没有把法律的确定性列为法治的要件。法律的不确定性意味着法官在疑难案件中需要行使自由裁量权并创制新的法律。只要不确定的司法判决具有合法性、客观性和可预测性，即使法律是不确定的，法治理想的实现也是可能的。

Legal Indeterminacy and The Possibility of Rule of Law

Legal indeterminacy don＇t mean the loss of legal legitimacy and the disillusionment of rule of law. The legal system inevitablely includes indeterminate law. Legal indeterminacy is compatible with the objectivity of law. Mainstream legal theory does not necessarily insist on legal indeterminacy, but necessarily insist on objectivity of law. The classic interpreters of the ideas of rule of law, Fuller, Raz and Finnis, stressed legal clarity, predictabil- ity and stability. They have not view legal indeterminacy as the elements of the rule of law. Legal indeterminacy means that judges have discretion and make new laws in hard cases. As long as the indeterminate judicial decisions have legitimacy, objectivity and predictability, the realization of the ideal of rule of law is possible.