法律方法如何守护法治

摘要

围绕“司法能动”与“司法克制”，学界逐渐形成了“形式方法论”与“实质方法论”之争。从法治的层面看，两者之于推动法治进程的作用有限：一方面是由法律方法自身属性所决定；另一方面是现有的政体格局以及宪法司法实践的缺失所导致。但这并不意味着法律方法的筹谋是不重要的，相反，在现阶段司法应持守“形式方法论”的主张，因为它仍具有守护30年来法治建设宝贵成果的积极意义。%There has been a kind of argumentation about the “formal methodology” and the “substantive methodology” centered on “judicial activism” and “judicial restraint” in academic circle .In the view of rule of law, the role that any of them should save the rule of law could not be overestimated:first, it is de-cided by the properties of legal methods;second , it is due to the absence of political system pattern and con-stitutional judicial practice in current situation .It would not mean that legal method is nothing .On the con-trary,“formal methodology” is important at the present stage because it could save the valuable results of the construction of the rule of law in the past 30 years.