温和的司法能动主义——刑法解释的一种可能路径

Moderate Judicial Activism:A Possible Pathway for Criminal Law Interpretation

司法能动主义和克制主义体现了司法意识形态的两种不同姿态。在刑事司法领域,倡导温和的能动主义将有利于实现法官的精英化,并通过能动地对事实与规范之间裂隙的弥补,最大限度地实现刑法所追求的实体正义。哲学解释学为司法能动主义提供了哲学上的理论支援,它可以有效地缓解司法能动主义与罪刑法定主义间的紧张关系,而法学上的类型思维又为司法能动主义提供了方法论上的支持。在司法能动主义的姿态下,一种实用主义的刑事司法观具备了实现的现实可能性。

Judicial activism and judicial conservatism represent two judicial ideological attitudes. In the field of criminal judicial, moderate judicial activism could facilitate elitism in appointing judges and help realize to the greatest degree substantive justice pursued by criminal law through actively patching up the crevices between facts and norms. Philosophical hermeneutics has provided the theoretical foundation for judicial activism and thus alleviated the tension between judicial activism and the principle of a legally prescribed punishment for a specified crime. The theory of type in turn provides the methodological support for judicial activism. In the presence of judicial activism, a pragmatic criminal judicial view becomes possible and practical.