Ensuring the Health of the Nation as a Determinant of Innovations in Law Enforcement and Judicial Activities
https://doi.org/10.17803/2713-0533.2023.2.25.647-680
Abstract
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has repeatedly stated the extreme importance of human life and health as values without which all other benefits lose their relevance. Despite this approach, practicing law upholders and law-makers are constantly faced with a dilemma between ensuring the human health and following public interests in a different dimension of the state activity. The purpose of this paper is 1) to substantiate the system-forming role of such vital values as preservation of human life and health in law-making and law enforcement, and 2) to determine the vector of legal regulation in the field of public health protection. The authors have analyzed the transformation of the legal regulation of relations aimed at ensuring the health of the nation in a number of key areas: the health of minors, high-tech medicine, the balance of interests of a doctor and a patient in law enforcement, digitalization of medicine and its impact on relations in the field of personal data protection, artificial intelligence in medicine, advanced legal regulation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of healthcare. Based on the Russian and foreign legislation, the practice of the courts of the highest instance and the lower courts, the authors have proved a determinative influence of the constitutional obligation of the state to ensure the rights to life and health on the legal regulation and law enforcement. Proposals have been made concerning the need to finalize legal acts aimed at detailing the regulation of issues in these key areas.
Keywords
health protection,
high-tech medicine,
breakthrough medical technologies,
personal data protection,
digitalization of medicine,
artificial intelligence in medicine,
iatrogenic crimes,
medical error,
balance of interests of the doctor and patient,
advanced legal regulation
Supporting agencies: The study was carried out within the framework of “Priority-2030” Strategic Academic Leadership Program.
About the Authors
T. I. Otcheskaya
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Head of the Department of Organization of Judicial, Prosecution and Investigative Activities, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 125993
T. I. Afanasyeva
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Department of Organization of Judicial, Prosecution and Investigative Activities
9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 125993
P. D. Zhukova
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Department of Organization of Judicial, Prosecution and Investigative Activities
9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 125993
N. V. Mishakova
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, D epartment of Organization of Judicial, Prosecution and Investigative Activities
9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 125993
K. A. Orkina
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Law), Senior Lecturer, Department of Organization of Judicial, Prosecution and Investigative Activities, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 125993
D. I. Shtefan
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lecturer, Department of Organization of Judicial, Prosecution and Investigative Activities, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL); Legal Adviser, Legal Support Department, Moscow Department of Healthcare
9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 125993
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Otcheskaya T.I., Afanasyeva T.I., Zhukova P.D., Mishakova N.V., Orkina K.A., Shtefan D.I. Ensuring the Health of the Nation as a Determinant of Innovations in Law Enforcement and Judicial Activities. Kutafin Law Review. 2023;10(3):647-680. https://doi.org/10.17803/2713-0533.2023.2.25.647-680
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