Authoritarianism has significant implications for how judges should discharge their duties. How should judges committed to constitutionalism conduct themselves when under authoritarian pressure? To answer this question, the article proposes a two-step adjudicative framework, documents a variety of judicial strategies, and proposes how principles and strategies can and should be incorporated into the framework in different scenarios. The first step of the adjudicative framework involves judges identifying the ‘formal legal position’ while blindfolding themselves to extra-legal factors (such as potential authoritarian backlash). In the second step, depending on the level of risk incurred by maintaining the formal legal position, judges should lift the blindfold to check whether, and if so how, the formal legal position should be supplemented with or adjusted by judicial strategies. Through this analysis, the article offers a guide to judicial reasoning under authoritarianism.

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威权主义下的判断

威权主义对于法官如何履行职责具有重大影响。奉行宪政的法官在威权压力下该如何行事？为了回答这个问题，文章提出了一个两步走的裁判框架，记录了各种司法策略，并提出了在不同情况下如何和应该将原则和策略纳入该框架的建议。审判框架的第一步涉及法官确定“正式法律地位”，同时对法律外因素（例如潜在的专制反弹）视而不见。第二步，根据维持正式法律地位所带来的风险程度，法官应揭开双眼，审视正式法律地位是否需要通过司法策略来补充或调整，如果需要，如何进行补充或调整。通过这一分析，文章为威权主义下的司法推理提供了指导。