Limits of the Legal Regulation of Public Relations: Problems of Understanding, Classification and their Importance in the Mechanism of Legal Regulation

The paper deals with the problem of limits of legal regulation, analyzes the factors that determine the degree of influence of law on social relations, discusses the issues of dependence of understanding of the limits of legal regulation upon the type of legal consciousness. Special attention is paid to the classification of limits of the legal regulation. In the domestic and foreign legal science the problem of limits of legal regulation has not received an unequivocal resolution. There are many definitions of “limits of legal regulation.” In the most general form, the limits of legal regulation can be considered as a measure of permissible, necessary and sufficient influence of law on social relations exercised due to the presence of objective and subjective factors and carried out by means of specific legal instruments. First of all, understanding of the limits of legal regulation depends on what type of legal consciousness is applied to investigate the problem under consideration. In addition to the analysis of the limits of legal regulation in the framework of the theory of legal positivism, the paper also considers other approaches to this problem: the limits of legal regulation are investigated in the light of sociological, anthropological, discursive (R. Alexi), integral (R. Dvorkin), procedural (L. Fuller) theories of law. Special attention is paid to the classification of limits of the legal regulation. In addition to the traditionally allocated classification criteria on volitional basis and on the basis of direction of interests, it is proposed to classify the limits of legal regulation depending on modality and the extent of the relationship governed by law. In conclusion, the importance of limits of legal regulation is revealed.

jurisprudence, theory of state and law, general theory of law, law, legal regulation, subject of legal regulation, limits of legal regulation, types limits of legal regulation, factors influencing the limits of legal regulation, significance of limits of legal regulation

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