The Judicial Spanning of Legal Structural Holes: Social network analyses of closely related groups' legal management

当法官(法律)面对村民及其关系密切群体时,对方无结构洞,而自己周边有法律洞,处于不利的网络位置。为此,法官(法律)采取将村长、习惯法和调解嵌入的策略,填补法律洞以提高结构自主性。当法官(法律)面对陌生人群体时,可利用对方存在结构洞以提高结构自主性,但这时的法官(法律)还未处于自己无法律洞而对方有结构洞的最佳网络位置。因此,中国法治最紧迫的任务是实现国家制定法与中国因素的有机融合以填补法律洞。

When judges ( laws) face villagers and its closely related groups，there is no structural hole among villagers while legal structural holes do exiest on the side of judges or laws，which puts judges ( laws) at disadvantage in the network． Being constrained by the distribution of legal structural holes，judges ( laws) have the village heads，customary laws and mediation embedded into dispute resolution tactics to change their disadvantageous position in the network and improve structural autonomy by filling up the legal structural holes． When the applicable objects of law are stranger groups，judges ( laws) can improve structure autonomy by using the structural holes of the applicable objects． But even then judges ( laws) are not in the best position，where legal structural holes are not around them，but on the side of the applicable objects of law． Hence the most urgent task for China's rule of law is to realize the organic integration of particular Chinese factors and enacted laws，so as to fill up the legal structural holes，increase judges' structural autonomy and make laws more appropriate for closely related groups or stranger groups．

张洪涛

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