SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS AS PARTICIPANTS IN LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article examines scientific schools as participants in law-making activity. Encyclopedic articles and scientific research are analyzed, attention is paid to scientific centers and operating law schools, their areas of activity. The author proves that in Ukraine scientific schools of law (law schools) provide law-making activity at the level of legal monitoring, the rule-making process, as well as educational and scientific methodological and legal processes. The scientific school of lawmaking in Ukraine, in the author’s opinion, should be considered those scientific centers that systematically approach the issue of lawmaking and have a corresponding leader of the scientific school, have developed doctrinal concepts that methodologically provide the policy of the lawmaking process, which are designed to ensure effective lawmaking activity in the state, act as legal participants in lawmaking activity, have their followers and an appropriate base for research, training, concentration of the scientific community and support of a specific legal ideology, a direction characterized by stability and a rational approach to legal forecasting, and tools for law enforcement. In the course of the conclusions, the author draws attention to the fact that these or other scientific schools of law in Ukraine are, in one way or another, participants in lawmaking activity, because they are subject to legislation on lawmaking activity without restrictions. Moreover, they have the appropriate “lawmaking legal personality” and the ability to carry out lawmaking or lawmonitoring activities. These characteristics are a unique legal phenomenon, capable of providing a moderate or effective regulatory, methodological policy of specific areas of knowledge of law, support of legal trends and ideologies. The author notes that in Ukraine, scientific schools are characterized by multifacetedness, pluralism, which are able to influence the law-making processes in Ukraine as qualitatively and comprehensively as possible, to join the European integration processes, to be a participant in the law-making process. Finally, the author singles out the Institute of Law-Making and Scientific-Legal Expertise of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a fundamental, modern and effective and efficient scientific school of law-making, which meets all the attributes of a scientific school of law.