Judiciary and Civil Society in Provision of Constitutional Rule of Law in the Russian Federation
https://doi.org/10.17803/2313-5395.2022.4.22.641-663
Abstract
The existing demand for ensuring constitutional legal order as an indicator of the embodiment of law and legality in the regulation of social relations, the role of the judiciary and civil society institutions in achieving the supremacy of the Constitution as the most important condition for the formation of a constitutional state testify to the relevance of the chosen topic of research. The article is aimed at developing conceptual positions on the relationship of various public institutions (state and non-state) in the framework of ensuring justice as the most important guarantee of the rights and freedoms of citizens, their associations, a fundamental condition for ensuring and maintaining constitutional legal order. The study of the role of the judiciary in its dialectical relationship with the institutions of civil society, in the formation and maintenance of the constitutional legal order was used as the main approach for the research of the selected problems. The application of systemic and structural-functional methods of research provided an opportunity to consider the issues of constitutional legal order as a holistic phenomenon, which is in direct dependence on the associated systems of the judiciary and civil society. The analysis of the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the current legislation of Russia, domestic and foreign scientific publications on judicial power and its interaction with institutions of civil society made it possible to receive the scientific information on the nature of influence of these constitutional and legal institutes on maintenance of the constitutional legal order. There is a need to increase the level of constitutionalization of legal regulation of public relations in the specified sphere, aimed to guarantee the effective realization of the principle of people's authority. The results and conclusions presented in the article can be used for the purposes of improvement legal and regulatory framework for social relations in the spheres of relations between the judiciary and civil society in their aim to achieve and maintain constitutional legal order. The obtained scientific information can be used in the educational process, as well as a basis for further theoretical research in the field of problems of Russian constitutionalism.
About the Authors
Yu. I. Skuratov
National University of Oil and Gas “Gubkin University”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yurij I. Skuratov, Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional and International Law,
65 Leninsky prospekt, Room 327, Moscow 119991
A. I. Yastrebova
National University of Oil and Gas “Gubkin University”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anna I. Yastrebova, Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Department of Constitutional and International Law,
65 Leninsky prospekt, Room 327, Moscow 119991
R. M. Dzhavakhyan
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Roman M. Dzhavakhyan, Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Department of Legal Support for Civil and Municipal Services,
82 prospekt Vernadskogo, Moscow 119571
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Skuratov Yu.I., Yastrebova A.I., Dzhavakhyan R.M. Judiciary and Civil Society in Provision of Constitutional Rule of Law in the Russian Federation. Kutafin Law Review. 2022;9(4):641-663. https://doi.org/10.17803/2313-5395.2022.4.22.641-663
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