简析德沃金对法律实用主义的批判进路——以《法律帝国》展开

On Dworkin's Approach of Critique of Legal Pragmatism From Law's Empire

德沃金在《法律帝国》中对法律实用主义的批判进路是一个二元式结构,分为描述性批判和规范性批判。很多法律实用主义者对德沃金的批判进行了反驳,但这些反驳多停留在德沃金的描述性批判上,而忽略了其规范性批判的不足。事实上,德沃金恰恰是在规范性批判F上走入了歧途,他没有明确地论证为何法官应当将与过去保持一致性看成是有价值的,在论证的过程中反而需要实用主义来证成。

In Law’s Empire,the approach of Dworkin’s critique of legal pragmatism is dualistic structrue,which can be presented in descriptive claim and normative claim. Most legal pragmatists focus on descriptive claim to defend legal pragmatism against Dworkin’s attack,while ignoring the error of normative claim.This paper will prove that Dworkin’s normative claim of legal pragmatism in Law’s Empire goes astray. He does not prove clearly why judges should take consistency with the past as valuable.On the contrary, it embodies the pragma-tism strategy during the process of argumentation .