引言在司法裁判中法官应当具有多大的自由裁量权?这历来是法学上争论不休的问题。而这个争论其实是法律的安定性与妥当性,或者说确定性与灵活性之间的角力与消长在司法过程中的体现,或者说,是一种本体论问题在方法论上的体现。在有着悠久制定法传统的大陆法系国家,人们曾经希望过通过制定一部包罗万象且没有歧义的法典来彻底解决这个问题。这样的法典在适用的时候,法官只需根据法律条 INTRODUCTION How much discretion judges should have in judicial adjudication? This has always been an issue that argues endlessly in jurisprudence. And this argument is actually the stability and validity of the law, or the wrestling and declining of certainty and flexibility in the judicial process, or that it is a methodological manifestation of an ontological issue. In civil-law countries with a long tradition of enactment, people had hoped that the issue would be completely solved by enacting a comprehensive and unambiguous codex. When such a code is applicable, the judge only needs to follow the law