全球信息化秩序下的法律革命

Revolution of Law in the Global Information Order

20世纪80年代以降,民族国家制造业社会向全球信息化秩序转型。法律全球化与信息全球化相互推进,这对全球法律格局产生了革命性影响。在法律客体与财产类型层面,伴随信息资本的全球流通,知识产权成为核心法律部门,传统产权已难以把握信息资本主义的真实动力。大量自治性客体出现,信息资本围绕"原型"创新展开竞争,当代法律必须针对这些变化提供新的规范性框架。在法律空间层面,信息全球化打破了民族国家的疆域限制,法律系统不再受限于领土分化,进而获得全球范围发展的动力。全球信息化秩序重组了全球法律空间,在互联网数字宪法、全球商人合同法、药物专利法以及超国家宪法等领域都出现了法律发展的新契机。全球各大系统的内在冲突,也推动"社会性宪法"的诞生。在法律时间层面,古典法律时间被充满风险的信息化时间取代,所有法律关系都进入到时间性的流动平面。"后风险社会"的到来,既使当代法律变为一个风险性系统,也使当代法律陷入与代码同化的危险。在全球信息化秩序重组中,法律系统将承担比过去更为重要的社会功能。

Since 1980s, the national manufacturing society has transformed to global in- formation order. The legal globalization and the globalization of information technology have recip- rocal propelling, which has a revolutionary impact on the global legal structure. With respect to legal issues and property types, the intellectual property law has become a key department accom- panying the information capitals flowing around the world, and the traditional property right no lon- ger can master the true impetus of the information capitalism. Now, large numbers of autonomous objects came to existence, and the informational capitals compete fiercely surrounding the innova- tion of proto-type, the modern law must provide new normative framework for this new develop- ment. From the aspect of the legal space, the globalization of information has broken the national territorial limitations, so the legal system is no longer confined to the logical deadlock of territory divisions and then has obtained the impetus to develop all around the world. The globalization of information reorganized the legal system in the world. The law acquired new opportunities to devel- op in the areas like constitutional law of the internet and data, contract law for the world mer- chants, medicine patent and supranational constitution, etc. In addition, the internal conflicts among the main legal systems in the world also promote the civil constitution to come into being. From the aspect of legal time, the classic legal time lineal has been replaced by the informational time lineal which is full of risks and all the legal relationships entered into a floating platform of time. The advent of post-risk society not only turns the contemporary law to a risky system, but also drives the modern law to a risk of being assimilated with codes. In the process of reorgani- zation of the information globalization order, the legal system will bear more important social func- tions than it did in the past.