“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 35 (2024), pages 243–250.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2024-35-243-250

Kleschenko Natalia
Сurrent questions of law-making: the context of today

Introduction. Current events in the world force state bodies to make appropriate decisions, which require a thorough and professional approach to the development of regulatory and legal acts. Law-making, as a phenomenon of social reality, plays a signifi cant, if not primary, role in the development of social relations, which are currently associated with martial law. In addition, attempts are already being made in the scientifi c fi eld to outline law-making activity in the post-war period, which will undoubtedly be diff erent compared to the pre-war world realities. The aim of the article. The purpose of the article is to research current issues related to law-making activity in the conditions of modern realities.

Results. Since modern legal doctrine demonstrates a powerful contribution to the development of the category «law-making», the terminological formulation of this concept is analyzed. It is noted that the seemingly purely theoretical direction related to law-making activity has extremely important practical signifi cance, since there is an absolute certainty that the quality of our life depends precisely on the quality of lawmaking in general and its eff ectiveness in particular. Today’s law-making is embodied in two directions: 1) factual issues related to the internal regulation of social relations; 2) issues related to the European integration course. The fi rst direction is the most relevant to the political and social realities of today’s Ukrainian society. It is characterized by constant dynamics, because the agenda now includes many issues related, fi rst of all, to the military-political front, as well as other issues related to ensuring the functioning of the regulation of the remaining spheres of public life (social, cultural issues, etc.). In the context of the characteristics of the fi rst direction, mention is made of the recently adopted Law of Ukraine “On Law-Making Activities”, which provides basic defi nitions, establishes a clear hierarchy of normative legal acts, defi nes structural elements of normative legal acts, etc. This document, which only at fi rst glance, has general theoretical signifi cance , becomes the basis of legal regulation of rule-making activities in the state. In addition, the creation of the Unifi ed Glossary of Legal Terms is emphasized, in the context of which the role of the unifi cation of legal terminology is emphasized. The creation of such a Unifi ed glossary will help to reduce such disadvantages of legal terminology as: the designation of several diff erent concepts with one term or the designation of the same concept with several terms; elimination of terminological inconsistencies in laws and by-laws; the use of foreign terminology is not always justifi ed; lack of clear defi nitions; use of outdated terms; use of linguistically and stylistically incorrect terms, etc. Regarding the second direction of law-making, which concerns the continuation of the integration process, the main instrument for the implementation of which is the legal means of law-making. Therefore, with the aim of improving law-making in Ukraine, adapting laws and by-laws to EU legislation, we consider it expedient to develop a mechanism to ensure the implementation of this work. The purpose of such a mechanism is to improve the order of development, adoption and implementation of regulatory products; development of uniform rules for the adaptation of legal norms taking into account the requirements of European legislation.

Conclusions. Modern legal doctrine demonstrates a powerful contribution to the development of the category «law-making», because a suffi cient number of defi nitions of this concept are given in various scientifi c publications. Law-making is implemented in two directions: 1) factual issues related to the internal regulation of social relations (they are the most relevant to the political and social realities of today’s Ukrainian society, characterized by constant dynamics); 2) issues related to the European integration course, which are conditioned by the reform and functioning of national law with the aim of entering the legal fi eld of the EU.

Key words: law-making, unifi cation, European integration, social relations, legal regulation, normative-legal act.

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