Position of Civil Law in China as Viewed from Modern Civil Law --Challenge to Civil Law as Private Law in Modem Society  

现代民法视野下的中国民法定位——民法私法性及其在现代社会的挑战

作　　者：高富平[1] 

机构地区：[1]华东政法学院知识产权学院,上海200042

出　　处：《US-China Law Review》2007年第2期10-16,共7页美中法律评论（英文版）

摘　　要：Civil law is a private law, which governs private entities, private rights, private conducts, and is characterized as personal liability and self relief. Civil law develops with society and has different characteristics in different times, and traditional civil law has been changed so much in the modem society. The modem civil law is a civil law that has been commercialized and converged with public law. However, for short of civil law tradition, China should keep discipline partition betweeo private law and public law although the convergence of them is a trend in the world. It is very important for China to construct her legal system that to set up the legal position of civil entity in law, to govern the civil right on the base of that the citizen has their clear civil rights.民法是私法，它以规范私主体、私权利、私行为、私责任和自力救济为主要特征；民法随时代不同而有不同特征，作为私法传统民法的基本特征在现代社会已经被大大地修正。现代民法实质上是已经商法化、甚至公法化的民法。但是，由于中国缺失民法传统。因而尽管世界民法已经走向现代民法．但是，中国的民法仍然应当坚持公私法的划分，在民法是私法理念上建构中国的民法，同时在确立民事主体地位、明确民事权利的基础上，建立限制权利行使，规范主体行为的商法、经济法体系。这样的定位对于中国法律建设具有重要的意义。

关 键 词：civil law private law modem civil law 

分 类 号：D913[政治法律—民商法学]