在依法治国的环境下,法官应有什么使命?德沃金在其名著《法律帝国》开篇就提到:法院是法律帝国的首都,法官则是法律帝国的王侯。 法官的根本使命在于护法。当兰州市62名法官为了维护自己的权益拿起法律武器时,他们同样也是在护法。但由于他们身份的特殊,国内法律架构的缺陷,使得他们的护法行为涂上一层“暧昧”的色彩。 In the context of governing the country according to law, what should a judge do? Dworkin mentioned in his famous book “The Legal Empire” that the court is the capital of the legal empire and that the judge is the ruler of the legal empire. The judge’s fundamental mission is to protect the law. When the 62 judges in Lanzhou took legal weapons to defend their own rights, they were also guarding the law. However, due to their special status, the defects of the domestic legal framework have given them a “ambiguous” color of law enforcement.