少数民族习惯法的制度空间与“合法化”路径

On the Institutional Space of the Common-law in Ethnic Minorities and the Ways of Legalization

少数民族习惯法在一定范围内的民族地区至今仍然是维护社会秩序,规范人们行为的重要规范。民族区域自治蕴含着少数民族习惯法的制度空间,宪法和法律的诸多条款都为少数民族习惯法进入国家法提供了依据。民族自治地方并未有效地利用国家法的制度安排,通过自治立法吸收少数民族习惯法,进而导致国家法与习惯法在司法过程中的冲突。开展少数民族习惯法调查,加强相关理论研究,自治立法吸收少数民族习惯法合理的、积极的内容,在司法过程中合理借鉴优良的习惯法,能够消除少数民族习惯法与国家法的冲突,实现少数民族习惯法与国家法的良性互动。

the common law of national minorities till this day has been important norms and regulations of guiding people＇s behavior and maintaining the order of the society. There is institutional space in the regional autonomy of ethnic minorities. Many clauses in the constitution and law have provided evidences for the ethnic common-law to be incorporated into the national law. Ethnic autonomous regions have not fully and effectively utilized the nation＇s institutional arrangement. They absorb the ethnic common-law by establishing its own autonomous legislation and thus bring about conflicts between the national law and the common-law during the judicial process. By conducting an investigation over the common-law in ethnic minorities, strengthening research on related theories, absorbing the rational and positive content of the common-law in the autonomous legislation, we can erase the conflicts between the common-law and the national law, so as to realize the sound interaction between the common-law and the national law.