中国语境中的“司法调解” ——一种非标准性阐释-《南京师大学报（社会科学版）》

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Title:: Judicial Mediation in the Chinese Context: A Nonstandard Interpretation

Keywords:: judicial mediation; judicial justice; interests(rights); Chinese context

摘要:: 尽管当下司法调解的实践本身比各种话语表述更富创造力,然而一种以“中国”为中心的司法方法论、以“中国”为中心的司法调解观远远未能被我们发现或发明。这至少是因为我们如何评判司法调解与如何表述它皆成了问题。分析这些问题就是在表述:我们的司法调解不是完全经由法律适用来确认权利或利益,而是主要通过实践智慧弥合了公正问题与合法问题,亦即需要解决的争议重点不在于依据哪些法律来裁断,而是借助于转变了裁判者的身份,使其在现行的法律制度内作为调解者来促使纠纷的解决,并以此来追求某种社会公正与社会和谐。

Abstract:: Although the current practices of judicial mediation are more creative than relevant discursive representations, there is no China-centered judicial methodology or China-centered view on judicial mediation. Such a situation is partly attributable to our inability to judge and describe judicial mediation. The process of analyzing these issues actually reflects that our judicial mediation mainly makes use of related practices to resolve the conflict between justice and legitimacy, rather than solely depend on the application of law to identify rights or interests. The controversy at issue does not focus on what laws we should take to make judgments, but aims to convert the identity of a judge into a mediator to settle disputes within the current law system, in the hope of pursuing social justice and harmony.