法律现代化:社会契机、观念基础与方法论

On Legal Modernization: Social Opportunity,Concept Basis and Methodology

作为中国国家治理体系和治理能力现代化之重要目标的法律现代化,依然在努力实现过程中。这一可能缓慢的历史进程恰逢中国共产党主导下的全面深化改革,一系列打破原有熟人社会结构、建构现代陌生人社会的政策措施加速形成法律现代化的社会基础,这就为平等个体之间以契约关系依规则行为的法律现代化奠定基础。法律现代化需要建构理性、自由、平等的契约观念基础,需要建构形式法治基础;但是在此之前,有必要充分认识法律现代化面临的社会现实,这正是法律社会学所擅长的方面。

As an important objective of the modernization of China＇s national govemance system and governance capacity, the legal modemization is still in the process of realization. This historical process may be slow. It coincides with the comprehensive reform led by the Communist Party of China. A series of policies which break the original acquaintance society and build modem society of strangers, accelerate the formation of social foundation for legal modernization, and laid the foundation for legal modemization which organize the society by means of social contract between equal individuals. It is needed to construct the concept foundation of rationality, freedom and equality, together with the basic legal system, to realize the legal modemization. But before this, it is necessary to fully understand the social reality of legal modemization. The legal sociology is just the one to play its role.