Pavlyuk A.V. On the issue of the notion “joint stock company” in Russian law

Abstract: The enhancement of legislation, regulating the work of joint stock companies, should be carried out on the base of regulations, functioning in the states of the European Union; and Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union dictates the necessity of development and enhancement of administrative-legal status of joint stock companies. Nowadays there is a necessity of defining of the category of a collective subject of administrative law, and working out of a system of effective administrative-legal measures of influence on joint stock companies’ activities directly. The methodology of the research is based on the up-to-date achievements of epistemology. The author uses the general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system approach, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), the traditional juridical methods (formal-logical), and the methods which are used in special sociological research (the statistical method, expert evaluations, etc.). The revelation of essential and distinctive features of joint stock companies as juridical persons, the consideration of typical features of joint stock companies as juridical persons, the analysis of the existing ways of joint stock companies management and their disadvantages will allow carrying out a thorough examination of “Administrative-legal regulation of joint stock companies’ activities”. The process of administrative-legal regulation presupposes the existence of two sides: legal regulation subject and legal regulation object.

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