Current Issues in the Formation of the Nomenclature of Scientific Specialties in Law

The paper is devoted to the group of scientific specialties 5.1 «Law» (for law specialties) that form an integral part of the Nomenclature of Scientific Specialties, approved by order of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No. 118 dated 24 February 2021. The authors of the paper were directly involved in the formation of this group of scientific specialties. The work was conducted in an environment of broad discussion within the legal academic community, taking into account the opinions of practitioners. The main goal was to enhance the potential and maximize the opportunities of legal science, which by that time had shown obvious signs of crisis. It seems to us that the conditions were created for a freer scientific search, since we deliberately had to abandon unnecessary detailing of the directions of scientific research. Since the approval of the new nomenclature, some time has passed, and it is already possible to draw some conclusions. Of course, there are and will be some problems. But for this there is a science to solve them.

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