论行政法律规范更具可接受性的路径——基于陕西榆林“芹菜案”的思考

Facilitating Acceptability of Chinese Administrative Legal Norms:Fusion of Reason and Law

陕西“芹菜案”中“小过重罚”所凸显的行政决定在法律适用上具有合法性却不被当事人和社会公众认可的问题,其根源主要不在于执法层面所谓的“机械执法”,而在于立法层面的行政法律规范与情理之背离甚至冲突。情理源于中国传统法律文化中的情理法观念,在当下中国行政法治建设中仍具有促进实质正义的重要价值。应在制定和修改行政法律规范时全面充分考量和吸纳情理因素,通过法与情理的交融来提升行政法律规范的可接受性。

The issue that the administrative decision of"severe punishment on trivial offence"with regard to the"celery case"in Shaanxi Province,is legitimate yet fails to be recognized by the parties concerned and the public is attributed to administrative legal norms not enacted based on reason or even conflicting with it rather than the so-called"inflexible law enforcement".Reason derived from the traditional Chinese reason law can still play a significant role in promoting substantive justice in the context of the endeavor made to develop administrative rule of law in China.We should take reason into consideration when administrative legal norms are enacted or revised,and the laws can be more easily accepted by lubricating the rigid administrative legal norms with reason.