Yuzhakov V.N. Peer review of the monograph "Legal Models and Reality"

Abstract: This article present a peer review of the monograph “Legal Models and Reality” prepared by the members of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, under the leadership of Professor, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, and a Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation Y. A. Tikhomirov. The monograph is dedicated to the research of the legal models as the forecasted versions of the optimal legal regulation of future legal events and processes that reflect the level of current legal order and the trend of its progression, stages and indexes of economic, social and political development. Posing the problem of legal modeling required solution of new theoretical and practical-scientific tasks – substantiation of the role of the leading legal effect nature, types and development of new legal models based on modern theories and concepts, determining factors and versions of real deviations and planned legal models, formulation of proposals on improvement of the process of implementation of legal models. The author of this review analyzes the entire “life” cycle of the legal model – from the conception of the legal idea to its realization. The author illuminates the obstacles in the way of materialization of law into an objective reality.

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