Ways to Overcome Crisis Phenomena in the Legal Domain: A Theoretical-Legal Analysis
- Authors: Dorskayais A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- North-West Branch, Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev
- Issue: No 8 (2025)
- Pages: 14-23
- Section: Theoretical and historical legal studies
- URL: https://medbiosci.ru/2072-909X/article/view/362596
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.37399/issn2072-909X.2025.8.14-23
- ID: 362596
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Abstract
Currently, crisis phenomena are increasingly prevalent across diverse areas of law. Although each legal crisis presents unique challenges and solutions, a thorough theoretical and legal analysis of crisis resolution is essential for deriving generalizable conclusions and informing the development of effective crisis management programs.
The objective of this study is to examine and consolidate ways for addressing crisis phenomena in the legal domain, based on the specific nature of the crisis.
The theoretical basis of the research comprised the scholarly contributions of legal theorists, legal historians and specialists in constitutional, criminal, civil and international law.
Methods: the study employed general scientific methods, encompassing descriptive, heuristic ones as well as analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction and induction, in addition to specialized legal research methods such as formal-legal, historical-legal and comparative-legal ones.
As result the classification of ways to overcome crisis phenomena observed in the legal domain with the focus on the following three areas is proposed: 1) scientific, entailing the development of a new theoretical framework of legal regulation, contributing to the emergence of a new type of legal understanding or adjusting its elements, and maintaining the idea of the value of law in the public mind; 2) organizational, which means the involvement of scientists and the public in the development of crisis management programs in the legal domain, regular monitoring of law enforcement, timely response to growing crises in other areas, retaining the role of law as a universal social regulator capable of preventing and overcoming conflicts of various types and levels, implementing the principles of independence and transparency of justice; 3) properly legal, providing for the identification and cancellation of outdated normative legal acts and contracts, adoption of new normative legal acts and conclusion of normative contracts governing new types of social relations, normative consolidation of the principles of international law as well as principles of branches of law at the domestic level, timely amendments to the Constitution to prevent a simultaneous crisis in the state and legal spheres, adoption of branch-specific normative legal acts.
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Aleksandra A. Dorskayais
North-West Branch, Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev
Author for correspondence.
Email: adorskaya@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8723-8673
Doctor of Science (Law), Professor, Deputy Director for Research, Head of the General Theoretical Legal Disciplines Department
Russian Federation, St. PetersburgReferences
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