法律信仰命题质疑与法律信任生成的路径选择

The Questioning of the Proposition of Legal Belief and the Path Selection for the Formation of Trust of Law

信任在信任对象、生成方式、价值追求以及内心确信程度等方面都不同于信仰。法律只能被信任,法律信仰几乎是可欲而不可求的。从国家权力结构的属性来看,法律的信任与司法权的行使密切相关,法律信任主要来源于司法权威与司法公正,而司法权威与司法公正又必须以司法权具有独立的品格为前提,此乃法律信任的一般逻辑。就我国目前的法律信任语境而言,树立司法独立品格显得尤为迫切。

Trust is quite different from belief in many aspects,such as the trust object,mode of operation,value pursuit and confirmation degree and so on.Therefore law can only be trusted,and legal faith is almost elusive.From the structural properties of national power,the trust of law is closely related to the exercising of judicial power.The trust of law comes mainly from judicial authority and judicial justice,while judicial authority and justice is based on the fact that judicial power has independent character.This is the general logic of the trust of law.In the context of current China＇s legal trust,it is very necessary to establish judicial independence.