法学理论创新与中国的软实力——对法律与社会研究的重新定位

Legal Theory Innovation and China's Soft Power——Reorientation of Researches on Law and Society

中国法学理论界濒临着严重的衰退,应当对权力的赤裸行使产生的法律秩序的正当性危机有所关注。解决这种软实力匮乏形成的危机,就要有充分权威的法律。当下中国更有必要发展拉兹的权威学说,强调严格的法治精神,使得缺陷反过来通过民主而改善。由此,政府应把民主政治与程序正义结合起来提供公共物品,该机制设计离不开从法社会学角度加以经验论证,并且要以开放的心态促进中西方之间的对话。这种在法律与社会的互动中进行的理论创新,有助于提升中国的软实力。

Chinese legal theory is on the edge of a serious degradation and the legitimacy crisis resulted from a naked power intrusion of the legal order has been overlooked. The solution to this crisis of soft power deficiency requires a more authoritative law. Hence the law authority theory by Joseph Raz could shed a light on rule-of-law development in China in the hope to cure those defects through democratic procedures. Therefore, the government should provide the public goods by combining democratic politics and procedural justice. A careful design of this mechanism shall be based on empirical reasoning from a socio-legal perspective and encourage a discourse between the East and the West with open-mindedness. Theory innovation generated from the interactions of taw and society, in the end, helps to enhance the soft power of China.