The Institute of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation

The paper examines the issues of the legal status of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the light of the science and practice of application of constitutional and administrative law. Special attention is paid to the legal status of the Commissioner for Human Rights and the list of his powers in the field of human rights protection. The authors suggest the ways of improving the institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation with due regard to the experience of foreign states. It is concluded that 1) administrative capacity, as well as administrative legal capacity cannot be the same-order elements of a legal status along with rights, obligations and responsibilities, since administrative capacity and administrative legal capacity in the presence of a legal fact constitute only a condition for the transformation of the subject of law into the subject of a specific administrative legal relationship; 2) a status of an authorized person is a combination of the following elements: rights, duties, responsibility for decision-making and non-fulfillment of powers, guarantees of functioning in the field of protecting human rights and freedoms.

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