中国的正义体系的过去、现在与未来

China's System of Justice:Past,Present,and Future

笔者采用的是总体性的正义体系视野,兼及民事、刑事法律,"政"与"法",正式(国家)和非正式(民间)正义体系,以及来自两者的互动而形成的半正式体系("第三领域")。文章和笔者新书所论述和引用的实例跨越古今、中西,并兼顾实践和理论。前后一贯的是,由实践历史出发来突出其所展示的理论含义,特别是"实用道德主义"的二元合一(互动、互补)的思维与逻辑。据此,提出新型中华法系的前瞻性设想。

This article examines"Chinese justice"as a total system,including both the civil and criminal,administrative and legal,and the formal(state)and informal(among the people)parts of the justice system,as well the semiformal system("the third realm")that has resulted from the interactions between the formal and informal systems. The article and the author's new book draw upon actual examples from the past and the present,the Chinese and the Western,and attend to both practice and theory. The theme that runs throughout is to analyze theoretical implications evinced in the history of actual practice of justice,most especially its distinctive"practical moralism"mode of thinking and logic,to consider dualities as mutually complementary and interactive,rather than in either/or opposition. On the basis of such an examination,the article outlines the main contours for a new Sinitic justice system for the future.