司法能动主义:司法实践超越法律形式主义

法律形式主义容易导致孤立、机械地理解法律,漠视条文背后的规范价值与意义。超越法律形式主义的进路就是要在司法实践中能动地理解法律。司法能动主义更贴近正义,不拘泥于条文和立法意图,更少强调先例,更具司法独立精神。但这并不代表法律扩张主义,在司法判断中突出行为的社会危害性也不是重刑主义,“能动”并不是对罪刑法定原则的违反,而是要求在该原则的基础上能动地理解构成要件与罪刑法定的关系,并根据规范目的与事物本质,对法律条文做出实质性而非形式性解释适用。

Judicial Activism: Judicial Practice beyond Legal Formalism

Legal formalism is apt to actuate an insular and inflexible understanding of law,disregarding the regularized value and meaning hidden under items and words.The approach to overcoming legal formalism is deciphering law by active solution in judicial practice.Judicial activist,nearer to justice,not letter-bound and surpassing law-makers' design,pays much less attention to precedent and occupies much more independent spirit in reality.Nevertheless,this doesn't indicate legal expansionism,and making a strong point on act harmfulness to society doesn't do heavy penalty."Activism" is not against the principle of nomography,but requires alternatively explaining and applying legalism with actuality,without formalism,according to the regularized purpose and case essentiality based on enactment.