Scientific Tools for Administrative-Law Research on Disciplinary Proceedings

In Russian scholarship on administrative procedural law, there is no consensus regarding the legal nature of activities related to the imposition of disciplinary sanctions on civil servants for breaches of official discipline, corrupt practices, and acts damaging to official integrity. Alongside views that exclude disciplinary proceedings from the structure of the administrative process, certain scholars classify such proceedings as service-delict disciplinary procedures or administrative-disciplinary procedures. These positions fail to consider the legal nature of the relationships that form part of the subject matter of administrative law in the application of disciplinary sanctions to civil servants; the specific method of administrative regulation, which ensures the performance of duties or compliance with prohibitions in areas of external-authority activities or intra-organizational relations; as well as the procedural category of an individually-defined case and the procedural form for its consideration and resolution. From the standpoint of defining the content and structure of administrative-procedural activities of executive authorities, introducing new procedural categories and concepts without sufficient justification risks undermining the substantive unity of the administrative process. This circumstance necessitates a unified approach to the study of administrative-procedural forms employed by executive authorities. As a methodological framework, the propositions of V. D. Sorokin’s concept of the administrative process may be utilized. These involve the elements of a unified method of legal regulation (at the level of the legal system), the types of regulation derived from these elements, and their channels of implementation, represented by corresponding forms of legal process. On this basis, disciplinary proceedings may be characterized as a channel for implementing two types of legal regulation, founded on prescriptions and prohibitions as direct regulators of social relations. Consequently, disciplinary proceedings constitute a procedural form of law-enforcement (jurisdictional) activity exercised by disciplinary authorities in imposing sanctions, analogous in typology to the procedural form of criminal proceedings.

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