司法后现代趋向探微

An Approach to Postmodern Tendency of Justice

现代性语境中的司法制度预定法律文本具有确定性内容,崇尚司法形式主义,法律推理成为法官适用法律和作出判决的基本方法,司法具有权威性地位,对司法程序规则的恪守构成司法合法性基础。后现代主义消解了法律文本的确定性意义,解构了判决标准和方法,颠覆了司法权威,并对司法程序的正义性进行了非难,引发了一场现代司法危机。本文认为,应重视后现代法学诘难现代司法制度所提出的问题,关注司法后现代趋向,法学理论和法律实践应为现代司法制度的完善和重构进行不懈努力。

Modern judicial system predetermines specific content of law texts a nd advocates judicial formalism. Legal reasoning becomes a basic approach to app lying laws and making judgment; judicature holds a position of authority. It is a basis of judicial legitimacy to abide by rules of judicial procedures. Postmod ernism eliminates specific meanings of law texts, deconstructs criteria and meth ods of making judgment, overthrows judicial authority, and reproaches justice of judicial procedures, bringing about a crisis of modern justice. The article cla ims that we should attach importance to questions raised by postmodern laws on m odern judicial system and be concerned with the postmodern tendency of judicatur e. Legal theories and practice ought to perfect and reconstruct modern justice u nceasingly.