Principles of Law: Dynamics in a Risk Society

The paper develops the issue of critical understanding of the principles of law. The author comprehends the change in the principles of law in the context of the transience of phenomena and events. In today’s risk society, the acceleration of reality amid new technologies is reflected in the dynamics of legal principles. In an ever-changing environment, the legislator adapts to evolving conditions not only the legal norms governing objectively necessary social relations. Legal principles, as elements of law that are more stable in relation to norms, are also subject to development. Studying the development of the basic principles of countering terrorism, the paper demonstrates their dynamics in the context of the transience of risk realization. The reflection of the legal structure of the legal principles of regulation of public relations in the field of protection of the population and territories from emergency in the current legislation is critically analyzed. The analysis shows not only the importance of relying on the principles of international law alone in legal regulation in this area, but also the importance of the constitutional and legal principles developed in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and actively implemented in Russia in the past decade. The escalation of risks in the context of increased confrontation in the world creates legal security problems, including legal risks, which requires correlation of the principles of law with the dynamics of risks.

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