论判决修辞的论证功能及司法应用

在现代法治社会,法律的效力已经不能单纯的依靠国家强制力去实现,法院的权威也不能仅仅依靠国家＂暴力＂机器去维护,随着法治现代化的进一步深入,法律得以良性运转的成本也不断攀升。其中最重要的一点就是司法的公开和透明,预示着司法将走下供奉的神坛,走入千家万户,从＂以力服人＂走向＂以理服人＂。修辞应用到判决中则不仅是一种说服手段,更是一种展现真理的事实力量。通过修辞方法的正确运用可以更好地使判决的合法性、合理性得以充分显现,在司法公开的大环境下更具有生命力。

修辞(学):裁判研究中一个值得深入的领域

作为一种说服的艺术,修辞(学)强调通过主体间的论辩和争论来达致理性说服。强调论辩的修辞(学),因其倡导主体间的论辩,能够打开法官独自判断时的心里"暗箱",而被视为实现裁判合理性的一种进路和方法。当代西方裁判理论不断从修辞(学)中汲取营养,尝试解决裁判合理性问题。近些年来,我国法学界也展开了对修辞(学)的研究,但还停留在理论介绍层面。修辞(学)研究对于解决我国裁判面临的价值判断困境具有重要意义,我们应当从方法视角、实证层面及部门法角度对其展开细致深入的研究。

论判决修辞的论证功能及司法应用

在现代法治社会,法律的效力已经不能单纯的依靠国家强制力去实现,法院的权威也不能仅仅依靠国家“暴力”机器去维护,随着法治现代化的进一步深入,法律得以良性运转的成本也不断攀升。其中最重要的一点就是司法的公开和透明,预示着司法将走下供奉的神坛,走入千家万户,从“以力服人,,走向“以理服人”。修辞应用到判决中则不仅是一种说服手段,更是一种展现真理的事实力量。通过修辞方法的正确运用可以更好地使判决的合法性、合理性得以充分显现,在司法公开的大环境下更具有生命力。

Confession Governance and Verdicts in China's Criminal Justice

The objective phenomenon of reliance on confessions is the source of many problems in the practice of criminal justice in China. Although successive amendments to the law have endeavored to improve the handling of confessions, they have been unable to resolve the dilemma of a rigid management mode, incompatible management strategies, and conflicting attitudes towards management. This paper has made a multi-dimensional reinterpretation of it from the judges＇ perspective, including functional analysis, cultural interpretation and immediate considerations. It reveals that behind its functions of offering moral comfort or allowing evasion of responsibility, confession, as a medium of physical and intellectual management, has the more important function of supplementing and improving the legitimacy of criminal verdicts. The remolding of the legitimacy of criminal verdicts with the coordinated improvement of the management of confessions will change the mode of association between those who currently govern confession and those they govern and will clash with the current closed mode of criminal justice management, thereby promoting a transformation in the governance of criminal justice.