Trends in the development of the Institute of judicial power through the prism of scientific works by E. I. Kozlova

Abstract

The article attempts a chronological analysis of the adoption of normative legal acts that are the source of such an institution of constitutional law of the Russian Federation as the judiciary in order to identify trends in its development. The author, using the theoretical developments of Professor E. I. Kozlova regarding the objective conditionality of the complexity of the structure of the legal institution, the expansion and detailing of constitutional legal norms, tries to identify those factors that lead to the transformation of the legal matter in modern Russia. Recognizing the wellfounded conclusions made by an outstanding scientist back in the Soviet period, the author concludes that the influence of the highlighted E. I. Kozlova considers such a factor as the maturity of public relations for the development of the institution of judicial power in modern conditions, as well as the simplification of the structure of the institution of judicial power in connection with the exclusion from its elemental composition of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation, constitutional (statutory) courts of the subjects of the Russian Federation, which is associated with the ongoing search for an optimal model of judicial power in a transitional stage the development of the Russian state and society and modern geopolitical changes.