Cite this article as:
Averianova N. N. “Legal Category” as a Tool of Scientific Knowledge (on the Example of “Land” as a Category of Constitutional Law). Izv. Saratov Univ., Economics. Management. Law, 2018, vol. 18, iss. 4, pp. 450-454. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1994-2540-2018-18-4-450-454
“Legal Category” as a Tool of Scientific Knowledge (on the Example of “Land” as a Category of Constitutional Law)
Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the role of the “legal category” as an independent methodological method, with the help of which the process of cognition of legal phenomena takes place. The conclusions are adapted on the “ground” as a constitutional-legal category.
Purpose. The main goal is to determine the methodological role of the “legal category” in the process of cognition of individual constitutional and legal phenomena and processes.
Results. The author determines the essence of the “legal category” as an instrument of scientific knowledge, explains the expediency of applying this methodological method to the study of “land” as a constitutional legal category, based on its multifaceted nature, a special constitutional and legal regime and special significance for the people and the state public land relations.
Сonclusions. The author comes to the conclusion that constitutional norms are a legislative form of expressing the category of land as a consitutional-legal one; the content of the constitutional-legal category of “land” is the cumulative representation of it as a constitutional value, part of constitutional principles and the object of constitutional relations.
1. Аvtonomov А. S. Sistemnost’ kategoriy konstitutsionnogo prava [System of categories of constitutional law]. Diss. Dr. Sci. (Jur.). Moscow, 1999. 391 p. (in Russian).
2. Аristotel. Etika; Politika; Ritorika; Poehtika; Kategorii [Ethics; Politics; Rhetoric; Poetics; Categories]. Minsk, 1998. 1394 p. (in Russian).
3. Levin G. D. Filosofskie kategorii v sovremennom diskurse [Philosophical categories in modern discourse]. Moscow, 2007. 224 p. (in Russian).
4. Kategorii istoricheskogo materializma [Categories of historical materialism. Eds. N. I. Dryakhlov, V. I. Razin, E. Lassov, G. Shtiler]. Moscow, 1980. 246 p. (in Russian).
5. Vasil’ev А. M. Pravovye kategorii. Metodologicheskie aspekty razrabotki sistemy kategoriy teorii prava [Legal category. Methodological aspects of the development of the system of categories of the theory of law]. Moscow, 1976. 264 p. (in Russian).
6. Kerimov D. А. Filosofskie osnovy politiko-pravovykh issledovaniy [Philosophical foundations of political and legal research]. Moscow, 1986. 332 p. (in Russian).
7. Syrykh V. M. Metod pravovoi nauki (Osnovnye elementy, struktura) [Method of legal science (Basic elements, structure)]. Moscow, 1980. 176 p. (in Russian).
8. Epifanova E. V. On legal concept of “crime”. Probely v rossiiskom zakonodatel’stve [Gaps in Russian legislation], 2012, no. 6, pp. 40–45 (in Russian).
9. Bezrukov А.V. Konstitutsionnoe pravo Rossii [Constitutional law of Russia. 3rd ed., rev. and add.]. Moscow, 2015. 304 p. (in Russian).
10. Shakhraj S. M. Konstitutsionnoe pravo Rossiiskoj Federatsii [Constitutional law of the Russian Federation. 4th ed., rev. and add.]. Moscow, 2017. 624 p. (in Russian).
11. Khabrieva T. Ya. Konstitutsionnaia reforma v sovremennom mire [Constitutional reform in the modern world]. Moscow, 2016. 320 p. (in Russian).
12. Avakian S. A. Constitution of Russian Federation: results of development. Konstitustionnoe i munistipal’noe pravo [Constitutional and municipal law], 2008, no. 23, pp. 3–10 (in Russian).
13. Kabyshev V. T., Gavrilenko V. I. Konstitutsionnoe pravo Rossii: uchebno-metodicheskiy kompleks [Constitutional law of Russia: educational and instructional complex. Ans. ed. V. T. Kabyshev]. Saratov, 2010. 238 p. (in Russian).