编者按:权利可视为划定行为界限、构建伦理法律制度、解释历史发展的一种方法,而权利的概念化、体系化、制度化以及社会后果,又依赖逻辑学、伦理学、社会学、心理学、经济学、法学等不同知识体系的方法予以阐释或论证、描述或分析。20世纪90年代,继权利本位、人权理想、法治国家的讨论后,学者们宣布中国“开始迈入权利时代”。权利时代,既要实现在横向关系上的权利界定及其救济,更要完成权利方法对权力机制的塑造,让权力实践除受制于自身逻辑外还受制于权利关系,即要将权利作为达成整个社会秩序的核心方法。这当然离不开权利形成、配置、实践、反馈的具体方法的繁荣。为此,本刊第三届青年公法论坛(2013年10月12—13日)以“作为方法的权利和权利的方法 ”为题。 Editor’s note: The right can be regarded as demarcating the boundaries of behavior, building an ethical legal system, a way to explain the historical development, and the concept of conceptualization, systematization, institutionalization and social consequences of rights, but also rely on logic, ethics, sociology, Psychology, economics, jurisprudence and other different systems of knowledge to explain or demonstrate, describe or analyze. In the 1990s, following the discussions on the basis of rights-based, ideal human rights and the rule of law, scholars announced that China has “begun to step into the era of rights.” In the era of rights, it is necessary to realize the definition of rights and their relief in the horizontal relationship, but also to complete the shaping of the power mechanism by the method of rights and power. In addition to being subject to its own logic, the practice of power is also subject to the relationship of rights, that is, The core method of social order. This certainly can not be separated from the prosperity of the specific methods of right formation, configuration, practice and feedback. To this end, the third issue of Young Public Law Forum (October 12-13, 2013) adopts the “method of rights and rights as a method” as its title.