Ideology as a Source of Legal Innovation

Abstract

The article deals with the interrelation between innovation and ideology of law. Particular attention is paid to the most important innovative objectives of ideology of law. The author makes a thorough analysis of the process of emergence of a new, innovative legal idea, since the transformation of a new idea into theory, legal principles and concepts is one of the key moments of the process of innovation in law. The author believes that the legal ideology is destined to support, develop and disseminate innovative ideas related to universal human values: rights and freedoms of an individual, democracy, rule of law, legitimacy, civil society, socially-oriented market economy. The paper notes that the essence of innovative legal ideology provides for the process of identifying theoretical consciousness, coordination and harmonization of various public interests by means of reaching a social compromise. Moreover, in the author's opinion, when innovative elements are introduced, the legal ideology should contain a great moral potential, which implies ensuring the rights of an individual, support, protection and development of the family. The most important task of an innovative legal ideology is to create legal ideas regulating the penetration of national culture into the legal system. In addition, the innovative legal ideology is aimed at developing ideas of economic relations regulation. Modern ideology can not just state the movement towards a self-regulating market economy. The innovative legal ideology makes it important to express a clear position concerning such processes as free trade, entrepreneurship, property issues.