“恶法非法”命题的澄清与辩护

The Clarification and Defense of the LEX INIUSTA NON EST LEX Thesis

奥斯丁等法律实证主义者对"恶法非法"命题提出了"概念性批判""无政府主义批判"和"保守主义批判"。观念史的考察显示,上述批判要么错失焦点,要么存在不同程度的误解。"恶法非法"命题具有多重丰富内涵,理论上至少存在强弱两种解读。从言语行为理论出发可以为如下一种弱解读提供辩护,即区分法律的成功条件和缺陷条件而分别赋予其不同效力。由此或可表明,法律的性质不仅仅具有事实面向,也具有理想面向。对于当下中国法治实践,法律具有的"程度性"特征提醒我们,要更加注重法律背后的价值因素,有区别地对待"恶法"的效力问题。

“the conceptual objection”,“the anarchy objection” and “ the conservative objection ” were used bykgal posi tivists such as John Austin to criticize the LEX INI USTA NON EST LEX thesis. Exploration history of the not ion showed that the above objections either were out of the focus or misunders The LEX INI USTA NON EST LEX thesis was of avariety of dimensions,and couldbereadat s tron gero rweaker sense. The weak read in g of the LEX INI USTA NON EST LEX thesis couldbe deended from the speech act theory. According the weak reading,there were the successful condition and thea speech act according to which di fer ent legal status wereg ive nto the law . Thus it might suggest that the nature of law consists in notm rely the factualdim ensionbutalso the idealdimension . With respect the practice of Rule oflawin China,the “ degree” character of law warnedus tlit we shouldpay mothe value behind th e lawand address the validity of “unjustlaw” discrminatively .