Concept of lawography

Abstract

The article deals with the modern realities of legal, including judicial, reform, which is associated with the emergence of new interactions between various subjects of social relations, most of which must be regulated by legal norms, the implementation of the multifaceted functions of the state largely depends on strengthening the foundation of scientific support for multifaceted types of legal activity. It is argued that the objective necessity of today is both the legal regulation of a whole range of social relations (property, financial, tax, etc.), and comprehensive forecasting aimed at making the right decisions that can lead to positive results. At the same time, a special place is occupied by the study, exhaustive analysis of legal relations associated with the implementation of the norm-setting process (legislation). Naturally, the latter requires both scientific understanding and methodological equipment. Science has been developing for millennia, starting with mythological ideas about the world and ending with modern technologies, methods, methods and, usually, techniques, which leads to the accumulation of knowledge. The generalization of this knowledge in multi-vector branches of human ontology, including the legal branch, their ranking, comparative legal and historical-legal analysis, classification, introduction of new concepts, methods, laws and principles, enables not only progress in the relevant areas of activity of state authorities and management, but also a progressive perspective of society as a whole, its democratization and humanization, which ultimately must be implemented in life during the development of the rule of law in Ukraine. In legal education, there is an urgent need to separate jurisprudence into a separate discipline, «lawography». Currently, the study of legal techniques is «squeezed» into the boundaries of lawmaking, which is clearly not enough. The topic «Lawmaking» in the course on the theory of state and law is overloaded and contains not only theoretical aspects, but also problems and types of lawmaking. Practising lawyers, even with full higher education, often lack the necessary knowledge of the rules, conventions and methods of preparing regulatory acts. This leads to the fact that even graduates of higher legal education institutions have only a superficial understanding of legal techniques. The purpose of the article is to theoretically understand the concept of lawography and the need to introduce the latter into the legal education system as an independent legal academic discipline with a defined subject of its research. It is stated that it is possible to confidently state the necessity of introducing a course on jurisprudence into the educational programs of higher legal education institutions and law faculties. This course, which is of an applied and auxiliary nature in relation to the general theory of law and state, is designed to train highly qualified specialists in the field of lawmaking. We are talking about lawmakers who are able to develop draft regulations and agreements, correctly choose the form of a regulatory act, competently structure it, avoiding contradictions and ensuring compliance with international standards in the field of human rights, Ukrainian legislation. It is important that the form and content of regulatory acts are in harmony, and the rules and means of legal technique are not violated. Effective implementation of these tasks is possible only in the presence of a theoretically grounded branch of scientific knowledge, such as lawography. The subject of study of this science should be a comprehensive study of the problems and methods of preparing regulatory acts, including means of legal technique. It is quite clear that the theory of lawmaking no longer meets current needs and requires independent formulation. Using philosophical terminology, we can say that where the «general» ends, the «specific» begins, that is, a special science – lawography.