TY - CHAP

T1 - Legal Consciousness

T2 - The Nervous Chord of a Legal System

AU - Lukovskaya, D.I.

AU - Kapustina, M.A.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Later, in the 1970-1980s, researchers started to develop the concept of a legal system and broadened its scope from one single component (a body of legal rules) to several components. The terms ‘legal system’ and ‘body of legal rules’ are often used interchangeably in Russian and foreign law books, which is a tribute to the established tradition. However, it does not mean that these concepts are treated as theoretically identical. Adherents to the so-called broad understanding of law used the legal system concept in their polemic against legal positivists (etatists). Therefore, ‘the legal system’ is a Russian version of a broad (integral) understanding of law which comprises not only the body of legal rules, but also legal consciousness and legal relations.

AB - Later, in the 1970-1980s, researchers started to develop the concept of a legal system and broadened its scope from one single component (a body of legal rules) to several components. The terms ‘legal system’ and ‘body of legal rules’ are often used interchangeably in Russian and foreign law books, which is a tribute to the established tradition. However, it does not mean that these concepts are treated as theoretically identical. Adherents to the so-called broad understanding of law used the legal system concept in their polemic against legal positivists (etatists). Therefore, ‘the legal system’ is a Russian version of a broad (integral) understanding of law which comprises not only the body of legal rules, but also legal consciousness and legal relations.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050260961&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1201/9781315317045

DO - 10.1201/9781315317045

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781498780988

SP - 17

EP - 25

BT - Psychology and Law in Europe

PB - Taylor & Francis

ER -