Abstract: The ancient judicial professional ethics in China is mainly manifested in the ethical requirements for judicial positions and judicial roles,including not only the external ethical dimensions required by judicial positions as specific institutions,but also the internal ethical dimensions required by judicial work as a special group.The ethics of judicial position is embodied in the system of official selection,examination,judicial evasion and judicial responsibility.The ethics of judicial role requires judicial officials from the principle standard and specific behavior standard of ethics and morality respectively,and renders the ethics of individual role of typical judicial officials.Taking ancient judicial professional ethics as a mirror,modern judicial professional ethics needs to pay attention to the cultivation of judicial role ethics based on the effective distinction between judicial position ethics and judicial role ethics;speed up the “de-administration” of judicial power to form a special judicial professional consciousness;highlight the “professionalization” of judicial professional ethics to clarify the specific application boundaries;ensure that judicial professional ethics has practicality and shows operability,restraint and effectiveness.

Key words: ancient judicial professional ethics, ethics of judicial position, ethics of judicial role, legal professional community