法教义学与法治:法教义学的治理意义

Legal Dogmatics and the Rule of Law:the Governance Meaning of Legal Dogmatics

法教义学与法治之间具有紧密联系。一方面,通过简要梳理观念史发现,法教义学可以从两个角度来理解,即作为知识的法教义学与作为方法的法教义学。另一方面,最低限度的法治概念包含两方面的要素:在价值目标上,它以法的安定性作为构成要素;在制度目标上,它以融贯法律体系的存在为基础条件。作为方法的法教义学既能促进法的安定性,又有助于融贯法律体系的建构,对于任意类型的法治都具有重要意义。中国在法治建设的过程中应形成自己的法教义学体系,既要在教义学方法的层面倡导法学方法论和一般法学说的研究,又要在教义学知识的层面结合判例研究、习惯梳理和法律评注的编纂,构造出具有本土特色的教义学知识体系。

There is an inherent connection between legal dogmatics and the rule of law.On the one hand,a brief investigation into the history of ideas shows that legal dogmatics can be understood from two perspectives,i.e.,legal dogmatics as knowledge and legal dogmatics as method.On the other hand,the minimum concept of the rule of law includes two elements.In terms of its value goal,it takes the certainty of law as its constitutive element;and in terms of its institutional goal,it takes the existence of a coherent legal system as its basic condition.Legal dogmatics as a method can both enhance the certainty of law and help to construct a coherent legal system,and therefore is of great importance to any type of rule of law.China,in the construction of the rule of law,should develop its own system of legal dogmatics,which means that it should not only promote research on legal methodology and general legal doctrine at the level of doctrinal methods,but also combine case law studies,custom explorations and codification of law commentaries at the level of doctrinal knowledge,so as to construct a doctrinal knowledge system with Chinese characteristics.