数字的法律意义

The Legal Significance of Digits

数字是解释法律现象的重要的、不可缺少的部分,它能给法律文化带来新的解读视角。早期的法律文化充满了神秘数字,许多法律制度的形成都与数字有关。而在司法过程中,众多的证据,在司法人员心目中都变成了不同的数字,对案件的判定变成了对数字的加减。由于数字化带来了生活方式、生产方式和治理方式的深刻变革,所以,数字正义有助于实现更高水平的公平正义。数字民主开启了民主的新形式,挑战了少数服从多数民主原则。大数据中的“数据”既包括数字也包括符号、文字、图形、图像、视频、音频等,这些数字以外的数据也是可以计算数据量的,而数据量就是数字。在大数据时代,需要开放法律数据,满足公民的知情权;要挖掘法律数据的潜在价值,把昔日无用的法律数据转变为有用的法律数据。在数字时代,量化方法越来越多,从前一些不可量化的法律现象现在变得可以量化,预示着数字时代许多法律问题将会顺利解决。

Numbers are an important and indispensable part of explaining legal phenomena,which can bring a new perspective to legal culture.The early legal culture was full of mysterious numbers,and the formation of many legal systems was related to numbers.Numerous evidences have become different numbers in the minds of judicial personnel,and the judgment of cases has become the addition and subtraction of numbers.As digitalization has brought about profound changes in lifestyle,production mode and governance mode,digital justice helps to achieve a higher level of fairness and justice.Digital democracy opens a new form of democracy and challenges the principle that the minority is subordinate to the majority.The “data” in big data includes both numbers and symbols,words,graphics,images,videos,audio,etc.Data other than these numbers can also calculate the amount of data,and the amount of data is a number.In the era of big data,it is necessary to open up legal data to satisfy citizens’ right to know.It is necessary to tap the potential value of legal data and turn useless legal data into useful legal data.In the digital age,there are more and more quantitative methods,and some legal phenomena that were unquantifiable in the past have now become quantifiable,which indicates that many legal problems in the digital age will be solved smoothly.