JURIDIFICATION OF MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL REGULATION: GENERAL THEORETICAL ASPECT OF RESEARCH

Abstract

Introduction. The limits of legal regulation of social relations is the subject of research of representatives of the general theory of law and state, as well as of the representatives of branch legal disciplines. At the same time, the legal literature gives conflicting assessments of the currently observed trend of expanding limits of legal regulation and the legalization of Russian society which is caused by it. In connection with the foregoing, such concepts as "limits of legal regulation", "juridification of society" and "universalization of law" need a deep study that would combine both the ontological aspect of their analysis and those realities that determine the specifics of the existence of any legal system. Materials and methods. The presented researchis based on the application of both general scientificand particular scientific methods of scientific investigation: dialectical, systemic, structural-functional, formal-legal, comparative-legal, etc. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of both normative legal acts and law enforcement activities, which the author considers through the prism of a socially determined expansion of the limits of legal regulation. The results of the study. In the course of the study, the nature and essence of the juridification of modern Russian society was analyzed, which is seen as a form of institutionalization of expanding limits of legal regulation. On the example of various legal acts and law enforcement activity of public authorities, the social conditionality and relevance of the legal regulation of those spheres of life of the Russian society that were traditionally outside the legalregulation were demonstrated. Discussion and conclusion. The position is substantiated, according to which the juridification of society is largely explained by the dialectics of the existence of personal, public and state interests. The expansion of the limits of legal regulation of social relations seems inevitable due to both their very development and the challenges and threats that the Russian state is currently facing. At the same time, the author insists that legal regulation, by its very nature, implies coexistence with other social norms and the limits of legal regulation are a kind of protection of law from inefficiency, a guarantee of its legitimacy and ability to maintain balance in the system of social relations.