期刊名称： 《中外法学》 核心期刊

作者单位： 中央民族大学法学院

摘要：

中国的司法判决逻辑不仅体现在合议庭做出的判决书中，审委会是决定“难办案件”的重要机构，代表了司法判决的深层逻辑。只有将审委会与合议庭结合起来，才能丰富抽象概括出的司法与政治有机统一命题，也才能完整揭示“中国法官如何思考”。借助某中级人民法院2011-2015年间的审委会记录，通过比较审委会与合议庭对相同案件的不同分析，能够勾勒出两者之间存在的互动机制：合议庭归纳的争议焦点决定了审委会的讨论方向，而审委会的决定既是判决的底线和前提，更是合议庭据以抵抗外在干预的后盾。由于审委会所考虑的很多问题不能够公开，当事人和大众只能通过判决书之外的方式了解这些信息，因此上述互动更像是两者间的“隐匿对话”。审委会的决定更像是利益选择，对其的监督之道不在于公开信息，而在于完善议事规则、健全民主集中制。

关键词： 审委会 合议庭 “中国法官如何思考” 民主集中制

英文摘要：

The logic of judicial decision in China should not only be drawn from the verdicts. What the Judicial Committee discussed and decided consist another dimension of “How judges think in China”，especially in hard cases. Drawing on the records of an intermediate people’s court from 2011 to 2015，this paper proposes a new approach to understanding the logic of judicial decision—making. There exists an interactive mechanism between the judicial committee and the collegial panel in China’s courts: the focuses of the dispute concluded by the collegial panel guide the later discussions of the judicial committee, while the decisions of the judicial committee determine the collegial panel’s verdict by giving principles and bottom lines. This interaction is more like the “hidden dialogue” since the records of the judicial committee are confidential documents. The parties and the public can only understand the discussions and decisions of the judicial committee in ways outside the publicized judgments. The decision of the judicial committee is more like a choice of interests. Therefore, the appropriate method to supervise it is not to disclose information, but to improve the rules of procedure and improve the principles of democratic centralism.

英文关键词： Judicial Committee Collegial Panel How Chinese Judges Think Principles of Democratic Centralism