Law as a multidimensional legal order: whether an integrative concept of a normative understanding of law is possible?

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The article substantiates the judgment that the concept of law is inseparable from the norm-setting activity of the state, which leads to the emergence of a legal order, while the natural-historical processes of development of society and the state cause – to a different dependence degree of legal and other social norms, which can be expressed both in their consistent differentiation from each other and integration into a single socio-normative complex. In modern development conditions of the society, there is a close relationship between legal norms and corporate, religious, moral and technical norms. The content and nature of this dependence determines the multidimensional nature of a legal order, which can exist and be ensured only through a symbiosis of legal and other social norms that acquire a socio-legal character. As a result, the general concept “law” should be interpreted as a legal order formed by the state and other entities, expressed in a complex of legal and other socio-legal norms, the coordinated action of which contributes to the emergence of a “normative ecosystem”.

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Evgeny V. Svinin

Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of the Federal Penal Service of Russia

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Email: evsvinin@yandex.ru
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PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of State and Legal Disciplines

Russian Federation, 2 Shchetinin str., 160002 Vologda

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