Kananykina, E.S. Philosophical traditions of analysis of sources (forms) of law.

Abstract: Sources (forms) of law embody rights and freedoms of an individual and a citizen, ensure their reality for all the people, their independence of the opinions of particular subjects of law, their legal protection. E.S. Kananykina’s article is devoted to analysis of customs, laws and other sources of law, which, as the author notes, are not just the means for the recognition of existing law, but rather one of the necessary factors of lawmaking. The author also studies correlation of law and morals, law and custom, etc. The article contains the study of legal positions of a number of phylosophers, devoted to the issues of sources (forms) of law.