| The organic integration of socialist core values and the construction of the rule of law is the soul project for constructing and enhancing the soft power of socialist rule of law culture in the new era. Beyond hard law, the inherent flexibility of soft law offers an alternative paradigm for incorporating socialist core values into judicial adjudication. Recent practices, however, reveal challenges such as cross-level misinterpretation , conflation with analogous concepts, formulaic judicial reasoning, and ambiguous legal argumentation pathways. In order to effectively promote the integration and symbiosis of socialist core values and judicial judgments, further consideration should be given to taking relevant measures to improve this situation, including clarifying the relationship between core values and similar concepts from a perspective of legal sources, distinguishing the logical connection between core values at different levels and judicial cases, emphasizing the substantive presentation and logical proof of the application of core values in soft law, and clarifying the normative approach to the application of core values in soft law. |