Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University408610.18287/2542-0445-2014-20-11/2-120-124UnknownChallenge as a legal institutionTaranA. S.morenovsv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Samara State University021120142011/21201242003201720032017Copyright © 2014, Taran A.S.2014<h4>The term challenge is used in procedural law and criminal procedure science to denote the number of legal phenomena. The article analyses challenge as a legal institution. The characteristics of this legal institution is presented, its subject matter is defined, its structural elements are revealed. Definition of challenge as an institution of criminal procedure law is given. It is proved that the essential characteristic of the institute of challenge gives the object of regulated relations. The author comes to the conclusion that the institution of challenge is not fully covered by Chapter 9 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. According to the author, challenge is interdisciplinary legal institute.</h4>criminal procedure, branch of law, legal institution, legal relationships, challenge, circumstances precluding participation in caseуголовный процесс, отрасль права, пра- вовой институт, правоотношения, отвод, обстоятельства, ис- ключающие участие в деле[1. Ozhegov S.I. Dictionary of the Russian Language. N.Yu. Shvedova (ed.), 20th edition. M.,][Russkii iazyk, 1989, 750 p. [in Russian]][2. Explanatory dictionary of Russian language. D.N. Ushakov (ed.), Vol. II. M., Izdatel’stvo][inostrannykh i natsional’nykh slovarei, 1939, Column 902 [in Russian]][3. Dictionary of modern Russian literary language. Vol. 8. M.-L., Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR,][1958, Column 1283 [in Russian]][4. Theory of State and Law. Course of Lectures. N.I. Matuzova, A.V. Mal’ko (eds.). M., Iurist»,][1997, 672 p. [in Russian]][5. Kerimov D.A. Philosophical issues of law. M., Izdatel’stvo «mysl’», 1972, 472 p. [in Russian]][6. El’kind P.S. Essence of Soviet Criminal Procedure Law. L., 1963, 172 p. [in Russian]][7. General theory of state and law. Academic course in 2 volumes. Prof. M.N. Marchenko (ed.).][Vol. 2. Theory of Law. M., Izdatel’stvo «Zertsalo», 1998, 640 p. [in Russian]][8. Mamedova Kh.A. Institut otvodov v sovetskom ugolovnom sudoproizvodstve: dis. … kand.][iurid.nauk [Institution of challenge in the Soviet criminal procedure: Candidate’s of Law thesis].][M., 1984, 190 p. [in Russian]][9. Zaderako V.G. Institut otvodov v sovetskom ugolovnom protsesse: avtoref. dis. … kand.][iurid.nauk [Institution of challenge in the Soviet criminal procedure: Extended abstract of Candidate’s][of Law thesis]. Kharkov, 1978, 17 p. [in Russian]][10. Shirinsky S. Self-disqualification and demurrer to evidence. Rossiiskaia iustitsiia [Russian][Justice], 2001, no.2, p. 20 [in Russian]][11. Pavlov I.V. On the system of Soviet socialist law. Sovetskoe gosudarstvo i pravo [Soviet][State and Law], 1958, no. 11 [in Russian]][12. Federal Law «Concerning Enforcement Procedures» ¹ 229-FZ dated 02 October 2002 [in][Russian]][13. Federal Law «On proceeding following the materials on rough disciplinary cases on application][in relation to the military men of a disciplinary arrest and on execution of a disciplinary arrest» ¹][199-FZ dated 1 December, 2006 [in Russian]][14. Federal Law «On arbitration courts of the Russian Federation» ¹ 102-FZ dated 24 July,][2002 [in Russian]][15. Federal Law «Concerning International Commercial Arbitration» dated 7 July, 1993 [in][Russian]]