The Research Of Law Gaps Filling On The Aspect Of Judicature

In the Civil Law countries, the judges have the responsibility to fill the law gaps which are objective existences under the situation of lack of law. The theory of evaluation of interests, which established on the criticism against the legal formalism, is initially to overcome the disadvantages of that formalism. This theory believes that the judges have to fill the law gaps via the method of evaluation of interest, and the way of law application is not only logic deduction, but also evaluate the conflict interests under the purpose of law in the case. The major idea of this paper tries to introduce the method of interest evaluation to solve the judicial problem about how to fill the law gaps, and hopes to provide some advice for the judicatory practice of our country.This paper is divided into four parts. The first part is mainly about the general theory of law gaps, especially about some theoretical problems of conception, characters, types, and so on. The second part is mainly about the background and development of the theory of evaluation of interests. With the foundation of the two parts above-mentioned, the third part tries to apply the theory of evaluation of interests to the process of judgment, and solve the judicatory problem of law gaps based on that theory as a methodology. The paper ends with the deficiency of the theory of evaluation of interests on filling the law gaps in judicatory practice.