Samigullin, V.K. The dusk of law or reevaluation of values?

Abstract: The fall of the legal tradition, the dusk of law, the crisis of law and state, of health sphere, education and science - these are the topical issues in the Russian society, and they are often discussed. What does, in fact, happen in the sphere of law? Maybe there are grounds for a more optimistic forecast? As the author of this article Professor Samigullin notes, it seems that the case is not exactly the crisis of law. Rather, it’s the crisis of legal conscience, appreciation of law, which is caused by reevaluation of legal values due to the transition from the authoritarian approach to law towards a more humanistic approach, and which may in the end lead to a new type of legal understanding in our society.