论公立高校的法人属性

The Corporate Attributes of Public Universities

公立高校的法人属性在理论上并没有因其法人主体资格的确认而达成共识,公立高校因其公益目的而承担较多公法义务,部分学者据此主张公立高校应当按照公法法人化改革;但法人本质上只属于民事法律制度,其法源指向仅限定在私法领域。结合十八届三中全会关于事业单位分类改革的要求,公立高校改革的方向只与民事主体制度的私法法人特征相契合,根据大陆法系法人的传统分类,公立高校应当定位为非营利法人,其法人属性自然就应当属于私法法人。

Theoretically the corporate attributes of public universities have not been agreed on although their corporate qualification is confirmed.Naturally public universities have more public duties,therefore some scholars suggest reforming public universities according to the corporatization of public law.However,corporation belongs to civil law system,and its legal source lies in the private law.According to the function-based reform of public institutions as required by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee,public university reform corresponds to the private law corporate features of the civil subject system.According to the categories of Continental legal system,public universities should be nonprofit corporation or nonprofit aggregate corporation,and their corporate attributes belong to private law corporation.