Institutional and Legal Foundations of the General Legal Model of Discretionary Powers

The study is devoted to practical and theoretical aspects of legal institutionalization of discretionary powers of authorities involved in legal activities. The author investigates the concept of legal institutionalization within the framework of the theory of institutionalism applied as a methodological basis for better understanding  of the systemic legal nature of the institutions of law. The paper also deals with conceptualization of a general legal status as an institution of discretionary powers. The systematic approach and modelling method allowed the author to go beyond the sectoral interpretation of the institutions of law and to update the concept of the general legal model of their perceptions at the level of systemic links between the normative legal prescriptions under national and international law. In the context of the doctrine of legal technique, the author has determined the technical and legal potential of legal institutionalization of discretionary powers of authorities involved in legal activities. The author has substantiated the conclusion that the general legal status of the institution of discretionary powers is based on the uniformity of technical and legal constructions of normative legal prescriptions of abstract general and relatively certain rules and principles of substantive and procedural law. 

institutionalism, legal institutionalization, institution of law, institutional relations, system of law, systematization of law, discretion powers, discretion, means of legal technique, technical and legal constructions

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