从中华法系到东亚法——东亚的法律传统与变革及其走向

现今学术界有关东亚法的整体认识,大致有新中华法系、东亚普通法和东亚法系这样几种代表性论说。以法系理论为视点,我们观察到东亚共同的法律传统在近代开始发生变革,中华法系在西法东进中趋于解体。如果以构成法系的要件为标准来衡量现今的东亚地区法,可以确认现在还没有法系意义上的东亚法,包括东亚普通法、东亚法系和新中华法系都是不存在的。但同时我们又必须看到,现今东亚地区法确实由于历史传统和近代继受的原因,加上地区共体化的推动,形成了某些类同与趋同的现象,这也许预示着未来东亚法的某种可能走向。

From Chinese Legal Genealogy to East Asian Law——Legal Tradition of East Asia and Its Change and Trend

According to a prevailing understanding of East Asian Law, there are in general such representative classifications as new Chinese legal genealogy, East Asian common law and East Asian legal genealogy. The author holds that the common legal tradition of East Asia began to change early in the modern times and Chinese legal genealogy started to disintegrate with the incoming of western law. Judged by the criteria of constitutive requirements of legal genealogy, the East Asian Law as a legal genealogy has not come into being yet, and the same is true to East Asian common law, East Asian legal genealogy and new Chinese legal genealogy. Meanwhile, the author agrees that, owing to the influence of both tradition and regionalization, the laws of different regions in East Asia do share some characters. This may indicate a changing trend of East Asian Law.