The category of the “source of law”: the problems of universality, specificity, and concretization (the experience of understanding of the approaches of pre-revolutionary scholars)


	Law and Politics Reference: El'chaninova O.Yu. The category of the “source of law”: the problems of universality, specificity, and concretization (the experience of understanding of the approaches of pre-revolutionary scholars) // Law and Politics. 2016. № 6. P. 813-821. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=52655 El'chaninova O.Yu. The category of the “source of law”: the problems of universality, specificity, and concretization (the experience of understanding of the approaches of pre-revolutionary scholars) Abstract: The object of this research is the basic category of legal science that is the “source of law”. The subject of this research is the main approaches devised by the historical and juridical sciences towards the concept of “source of law”. The author demonstrates that unlike in historical sciences, where the concept of “source of law” was examined only as a private case of the concept of “primary source”, in the legal science as a whole and law history in particular this is one of the fundamental categories. Among the main conclusions of the conducted research are the theses that the content of the definition of the “source of law” is influenced by the specific historical context, starting with the dominating legal tradition and ending with the value system that have been entrenched in the public consciousness of a specific era. The desire to move away from ambiguity of the concept of “source of law” led to emergence of new terms: “form of law”, “normative factor”, “monument of law”, and others. Keywords: normative act, form of law, source of Russian law, legislation, law, historic Landmark, customary law, source of law, legal practices, legal system This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Shershenevich G.F. Obshchaya teoriya prava. Vyp. 2. – M.: Izdanie brat'ev Bashmakovykh, 1910. 2. Trofimov Ya.V., Krasnov S.Yu. Ponyatie «obychnoe pravo»: sovremennye tendentsii, perspektivy razvitiya v tsivilisticheskoy i drugikh yuridicheskikh naukakh // Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 5: Yurisprudentsiya. – 2011. – № 2. – S. 136-144. 3. Taranovskiy F.V. Uchebnik entsiklopedii prava. – SPb.: Tipografiya K. Mattisena, 1917. 4. Taranovskiy F.V. Predmet i zadacha tak nazyvaemoy vneshney istorii prava // Zapiski russkogo nauchnogo instituta v Belgrade. Vypusk 1. Belgrad, 1930. 5. Pushkarev L.N. Klassifikatsiya russkikh pis'mennykh istochnikov po otechestvennoy istorii. — M.: Nauka, 1975. 6. Sergeevich V.I. Lektsii i issledovaniya po drevney istorii russkogo prava. – SPb.: Tipografiya M.M. Stasyulevicha, 1910. 7. Petrazhitskiy L.I. Teoriya prava i gosudarstva v svyazi s teoriey nravstvennosti. T. II. – SPb.: Tipografiya M. Merkusheva, 1910. 8. Nevolin K.A. Entsiklopediya zakonovedeniya. T.2. – Kiev: Universitetskaya tipografiya, 1840. 9. Moroshkin F. Uchenye trudy po chasti istorii russkogo zakonodatel'stva. – M.: Universitetskaya tipografiya, 1835. 10. Leontovich F.I. Istoriya russkogo prava. – Odessa: Gorodskaya tipografiya sodruzhestva Aleksomati, 1869. 11. Mikhaylenko N. M. Pravovoy obychay v sisteme istochnikov prava: Opyt kompleksnogo issledovaniya na primere pravovoy traditsii narodov Severnogo Kavkaza: avtoref. dis. ... kand. yurid. nauk. – Krasnodar., 2010. 12. Korkunov N.M. Obshchee uchenie o prave. – SPb.: Tipografiya M.M. Stasyulevicha, 1908. 13. Zagoskin N.P. Istoriya prava russkogo naroda. T. 1. – Kazan': Tipo-litografiya Imperatorskogo universiteta, 1899. 14. Klyuchevskiy V.O. Istochnikovedenie. Istochniki russkoy istorii // Soch.: V 9-ti t. – M., 1989. – T. VII. 15. Vladimirskiy-Budanov M.F. Obzor istorii russkogo prava. – SPb.-Kiev: Izdanie knigotorgovtsa N.Ya. Oglobina, 1905. 16. Belik V.N., Romanov I.B. Istoriko-teoreticheskie osobennosti vospriyatiya pravovogo obychaya v kachestve istochnika prava v Rossii // Zakony Rossii: opyt, analiz, praktika. – 2014. – № 5. – S. 91-105. 17. Yasinskiy M.N. Lektsii po vneshney istorii russkogo prava. – Kiev: Tipografiya imperatorskogo universiteta, 1898. 18. Golikov A. G. Ob'ektivnoe i sub'ektivnoe v istoricheskom poznanii s pozitsiy istochnikovedeniya // Istoricheskiy zhurnal: nauchnye issledovaniya.-2012.-3.-C. 24-28.

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El'chaninova O.Yu. The category of the “source of law”: the problems of universality, specificity, and concretization (the experience of understanding of the approaches of pre-revolutionary scholars)