On the Development of State Legal Phenomena Fundamental Typology

The problem of methodologically untenable studies of state legal reality is presented as part of the crisis of the Russian legal science. The forms of this problem include: legal research (theses in particular) where the actual state legal phenomena are defined as certain categories; objectively existing properties of such phenomena are not reflected in the empirical study while theoretical constructions represent a creative modification to the thoughts of other researchers to obtain the desired degree of formal originality (the method of composition of such works is sometimes referred to as the "method of distorting plagiarism"); a discourse on the understanding of state-legal phenomena, turning into debates about the concepts and failing to result in any scientific or applied socio-legal outcome. Overcoming the crisis phenomena in modern Russian legal science is possible on the grounds of scientifically based methodology that can limit creative voluntarism. A typology of state-legal phenomena, and subsequently of all legal phenomena, can become part of such a methodology. The criterion of the presence/absence of internal system connections can become fundamental for their typification, according to which two basic types of statelegal phenomena can be distinguished: elementary and systemic. Elementary state legal phenomena can not be divided into independent phenomena that have their own legal significance, but assume the presence of such in their composition. Elementary state legal phenomena are divided into substantive, dynamic and relational (connections and isolations) according to the criterion of the specificity of the legal entity. The integrative properties of systemic state-legal phenomena are determined by both the properties of their components and the structure, which should be considered using the categories "connection" and "isolation". Communication and isolation are presented as independent state-legal phenomena, and not as properties of such. The properties of isolation are dialectically opposed to the properties of communication.

crisis of legal science, typology, typification, criteria, elementary state legal phenomena, substantial state legal phenomena, dynamic state legal phenomena, relational state-legal phenomena, systemic state legal phenomena

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