法律职业化视角下的国际争端解决

International Dispute Settlement under the Perspective of Legal Professionalism

以国际法院为代表的国际争端解决近年来日益活跃。从研究方法的角度看,除了研究国际争端解决中所涉实体和程序问题之外,还应引入法律职业化的视角。国际争端解决有其固有的法律职业化特征,辩证地理解这一现象有助于远离西方诉讼与仲裁文化的亚洲国家制定可行的参与国际诉讼或仲裁的策略。本文通过对近二十年来国际法院和《联合国海洋法公约》附件七仲裁中的国际职业律师群体进行实证分析,并对二者比较研究,指出国际争端解决中的“欧洲中心主义”现象,以及国际职业律师群体具有高度专业化、精英化和封闭性的特征。同时,我国周边国家参与国际诉讼的不同职业化模式也能启发我国应对国际诉讼或仲裁的进路选择。

International dispute settlement represented by the International Court of Justice has become increasingly active in recent years.Apart from studying the substantive and procedural issues involved in international dispute settlement,it is of methodological importance to introduce the perspective of legal professionalism.International dispute settlement has its inherent characteristics of legal professionalism.A dialectical understanding of this phenomenon will help Asian countries,which have long been foreign to Western litigation and arbitration culture,to formulate feasible strategies for participating in international litigation or arbitration.This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the group of international professional lawyers involved in the International Court of Justice and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Annex Ⅶ arbitration in the past 20 years.By comparing the two,the author wants to highlight the phenomenon of“Eurocentrism”in international dispute settlement and the features of high professionalism,elitism and closeness typical of the Chinese professional lawyers.The author also wants to point out that the different professional models of our neighboring countries’participation in international litigation should inform our approach to international litigation or arbitration.