TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW AND THE STATE: TO PROGRESS OR TO REGRESS?
https://doi.org/10.22394/2686-7834-2022-1-54-60
Abstract
This paper has two aims: to compare the current trends in the development of the law and the state in Russia with the criteria of progress put forward by P. A. Sorokin and S. S. Alekseev; determine the position of the theory of law and state and identify the main trends in its development. Based on the postclassical methodological approach underlying the communicative theory of law, the author comes to the conclusion that the current trends in the development of the law and the state in Russia are far from to be characterized as progressive, according to the chosen criteria. To develop it in the direction of progress, the state needs to build a dialogue symmetric communication with society, based on the principle of mutual recognition. The theory of law and state, frozen in a positivistic approach, is proposed to be developed towards a sociological-communicative direction — the study of law and the state as complex, multidimensional phenomena, the central subject and purpose of which is a person with dignity and mutual rights and obligations.
About the Author
I. I. Osvetimskaya
Higher School of Economics National Research University (Campus in St. Petersburg);
St. Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Iya I. Osvetimskaya – PhD in Jurisprudence, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State, School of Law, Higher School of Economics National Research University (Campus in St. Petersburg); Associate Professor, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, St. Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg
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Osvetimskaya I.I. TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW AND THE STATE: TO PROGRESS OR TO REGRESS? Theoretical and Applied Law. 2022;(1):54-60. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22394/2686-7834-2022-1-54-60
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