功能比较法的误用与东方主义的变异——从络德睦的《法律东方主义——中国、美国与现代法》谈起

The Misuse of Functional Comparative Law and the Alienation of Orientalism: Starting from Teemu Ruskola's Legal Orientalism——China,the United States and Modern Law

美国法学家络德睦的《法律东方主义——中国、美国与现代法》受到西方20世纪90年代以来批判主义比较法的影响,试图运用话语-权力分析方法,反叛、逆用传统功能比较法,却导致了对功能比较法的误用;同时,由于历史语境差异,络德睦的法律东方主义叙事"移植"到中国,变成理性评价中国近代以来学习西方法治改革的思想障碍,造成东方主义的变异。络德睦提出的东方法律主义不足以成为比较法的新理论范式。

Abstract： American Scholar Teemu Ruskola＇ s book Legal Orientalism： China, The United States and Modern Law is under the influence of critical comparative law emerging from 1990s. This book managed to use discourse -power analysis to betray, reverse traditional functional comparative law, but finally misused the functionalism; Meanwhile, because of different historical context, Teemu Rusola＇ s Legal Orientalism narrative has been transplanted into China and has become a barrier to evaluate the process of China learning from The West and performing legal reform since modern times. The Oriental Legalism raised by Teemu Ruskola can hardly be a new paradigm of new comparative law. Keywords： legal orientalism ; functional comparative law ; discourse - power analysis