论法官解释权的确立——兼论司法解释的真义

法律解释由解释的任务、标的和主体三项要素构成,它与审判活动之间具有不可分割的逻辑联系。“司法解释”的概念,应是对这种紧密联系的回应和强调。法律解释的平意方法以及解释中避免混入价值判断,并非保证法律适用客观性的关键所在。确立法官的解释权主体地位,使司法解释显性化,既具有必然性又具有必要性,这才是推进司法独立的当务之急。以最大限度保全或最小程度丧失法律的确定性为标准,在配置法律解释权的多种方案中选择最优的来保障解释客观性,最终获选的是由法官进行法律解释。

On the Establishment of Judicial Authority on Interpretation

The concept of legal interpretation constituted by three essential factors,the task,the object and the authority,has an inalienable logical relation with judicial activities.The concept of judicial interpretation ought to be a response to this kind of close relation,as well as emphasis in Chinese context.The literal method has long been used as the prime rule of legal interpretation,and the value judgment avoided as antithetic to the objective of legal practice.But both of the above are not the core of the problems.The urgent matter is to establish the judicial authority on interpretation,which is inevitable and necessary to the pursuit of judicial independence.There are various ways to assign the power of legal interpretation.The prior consideration taking the maximum of preserving the legal objectivity or the minimum of losing it as the basic criterion is to endue the judges with authority on legal interpretation.