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Virtual Origins of Public Law

https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2021.173.4.009-022

Abstract

The paper analyzes the main processes that gave rise to such a phenomenon as “public law”. The problem of public law is one of the fundamental problems of jurisprudence. A classical dichotomy of public and private law will never lose its significance, and the search for their harmonious interaction only heightens the interest of thinkers around the world in this issue. We should agree that addressing such issues is always secondto-none, as it gives grounds for the development of the best legal regulation acceptable for a particular society. The very notion of “publicness” has gone a long way to finally gaining a foothold in the political and legal lexicon. In the Digestas of Justinian, the famous Roman jurist Ulpian writes: “Public law, which (refers) to the position of the Roman state, private law, which (refers) to the benefit of individuals; there is the useful for the society and the useful for a private individual. Public law includes the sacreds (sacra), the ministry of priests, the position of magistrates” (D.1.1.1.2). Thus, from the ancient Roman forum through medieval corporations to the political parties of modern times, the public space was certainly controlled by the state in some way or another. It was the intervention of the state in the private sphere that determined the nature of “public” in general and public law in particular. These processes have defined both modern political landscapes and the system of public legal institutions. Although, to a large extent, the motivations that affected the formation of public law were dogmatic, formal and virtual, or imaginary in nature, their influence adopted quite real features and led to practical political and legal consequences.

About the Author

I. A. Isaev
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation

Igor A. Isaev, Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Head of the Department of History of the State and Law,  Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation

ul. Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, d. 9, Moscow, 125993



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Isaev I.A. Virtual Origins of Public Law. Lex Russica. 2021;74(4):9-22. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2021.173.4.009-022

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