探寻法律人化解法律经济学难题的蹊径

Legal Profession and Its Approach to Economics-of-Law Problems

法律经济学引入我国后呈现出两张皮现象。一方面,经济学界利用其数理分析优势将最大化理念扩及几乎所有的传统法学领域;另一方面,法律学界大多处于既难以抗衡也无法应对、或退避三舍、或不屑一顾的矛盾尴尬境地。这不仅仅由于法律人数理基础薄弱使然,更主要的是根源于法学界鲜有人能够真正理解法律经济学开山鼻祖科斯理论的真谛,从而大大削弱了这一新兴学科在推进我国法制建设、法学理论科学化进程中所能发挥的应有作用。除了着力理解科斯定理的内核外,有关将资源配置转换为权利配置的原创思想以及总体的、边际的和替代的综合性研究方法,张五常对于合约选择局限条件的精妙概括,或许是引领法律人通向法律经济学蹊径的法门。经此传导,利益衡量论科学化难题也将迎刃而解。

When introduced into China,economics of law presents itself as,quite unfortunately,a cleft discipline with two independent dimensions: economics and law.While the former tries to extend its mathematical analysis into virtually all of the traditional domains of Law,the latter struggles in a shilly-shally situation of coping,as is accounted by the fact that few within the legal profession is good at mathematical analysis,nor has any understanding of the theories of Coase,the founding father of economics of law.As a result,this immensely attenuates the importance of the role supposed to be played by the emerging discipline in the advancement of the construction of both the legal system and a scientific theory of law in China.Besides Coase,Wuchang Zhang also gives a summary of the conditions of contract options,and it can be leading legal profession to the domain of economics of law,and,by the same token,can be the solution to making scientific the measurement of interest.