Procedures and Tools of Legal Expertise of Legal Acts as Elements of Its Methodology

The paper examines the structure of the methodology of legal expertise of legal acts and provides an overview of the procedures and tools of legal expertise. Expert procedures can be defined as the actions of an expert in the framework of a study of a legal act or its draft, aimed at establishing circumstances essential for the adoption of this legal act. It is proposed to understand the tools of legal expertise as logical methods, technical means or organizational techniques used by an expert to conduct expert procedures. The author suggests combining the tools of legal expertise into several groups: 1) logical (logical-linguistic) tools, 2) organizational tools, 3) technical tools and information technologies. In addition, the so-called philosophical instruments of legal expertise can be conditionally distinguished as a separate group— philosophical approaches to its implementation, which influence the expert’s choice of expert research methods. Despite the diversity of professional attitudes and beliefs, experts should be guided in their activities by the imperative of constitutionalization of legislation, which serves as the ideological basis for rule-making and expert activities. 

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