Vol 1, No 2 (2015)

The article deals with such terms as «source of law» and «form of law» that are analyzed and compared. The problem of judicial precedent in Russia is studied. The possibility of recognition of superior courts’ decisions as judicial precedents is considered.

In the article the problem of determining the boundaries of scientific and political activity in conditions of implementation of the Federal Law «On noncommercial organizations» that establishes restrictions for organizations that carry out functions of foreign agents is observed. The author on the basis of expert estimate analyzes the current law-making activity in the sphere of practice of separating science from political influence. As a result, the author concludes that information aspect of scientific activity plays a crucial role in the determination of its political meaning. The purpose of mass dissemination of scientific information among people who do not have specialized knowledge to critically analyze
the information understood as going beyond the scientific work and participation in the political struggle at the stage of formation of public agenda.

This article focuses on the legal framework and practice of use of an institute of public examination, which ensures implementation of constitutional law on the participation of citizens in managing the affairs of state set out in the Article 32, par. 1 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

This article contains description of main problems identified during control activities by recently established State Financial Control Service of the Samara Region. This article also shows possible ways to resolve them, including federal and regional legislative activity.

The article is devoted to the issues of procuring of systematic civil legislation under conditions of its substantial renovation. These issues are studied by author in consideration of legal innovations in the areas of transactions invalidity, legal entities institute, and general thesis on obligations. On the basis of carried out analysis, it is concluded that the novels in these areas do not fully meet the needs of systematicity of civil legislation.

The article analyzes standards of housing legislation that are dedicated to conditions and procedures for implementation of alterations to the configuration and layout of dwellings. The need to modify the rules of Housing and Civil Codes of the Russian Federation that are dedicated to the grounds in termination of the right of ownership and termination of residential lease agreement in the part of effects of realization of unauthorized alterations to the configuration and layout of dwellings is substantiated.

Based on the analysis of new legal provisions of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation to ban agency labor and modern jurisprudence, criteria for defining agency labor are established; the concept of an interest in the performance of work, management of labour work, progress monitoring are defined; trends in changing legal practice after 1 January, 2016 are marked

The article deals with the analysis of regulatory function of system saving mechanism in the branch of criminal law that is concluded in organizing criminal-legal relations, giving the required level of plasticity to existing criminal law norms and institutions, establishing hierarchy of branch’s formal legal sources. The knowledge of this function is a prerequisite for understanding and explanation of structure and action of system saving mechanism in Russian criminal law.

In the article on the example of the practice of the Samara Region the problems arising from the inquiry in the abbreviated form are analyzed, and possible way of solving them is suggested.

In the article the analysis of the relationship between the concepts of procedure and justice is carried out; stages of formation and development of Russian system of criminal justice are identified; Soviet stage of development of criminal justice and formation of modern system of criminal justice is lit.

The author considers the importance of international law policy, based on the norms of international law, and tasks of this policy in the life of modern society. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the interaction of domestic and international law, will have a positive impact not only on national legislation, but actually to change the whole law system of states through the implementation of international law norms in the national law system.

The article analyzes the concepts of «legal personality», «legal competence» of juridical entities and individuals. The capacity of
juridical entities and individuals is compared, examples of restrictions of legal capacity of juridical entities are viewed. Particular attention is paid to the correlation between legal capacity and legal competence of juridical entities.