“Almanac of Law”

Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 238–244.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-238-244

Dubov G. О.
To the issue of defining the object and subject in scientific legal research

The article analyzes the issue of defining the object and subject of a separate study, separate, primarily legal, sciences, the general characteristics of these concepts, as well as their role in the process of cognition. In addition, the author aims to analyze the latest trends based on the analysis of dissertation studies in legal disciplines in terms of the used approaches to defining their object and subject. The problem of the object and subject of both legal science and individual studies in this field is a complex issue that has both purely theoretical and practical-theoretical aspects.

The development of established approaches to its solution will allow to increase the systematicity of scientific knowledge and create conditions for its proper development, the absence of duplication of cognitive efforts regarding identical issues in the course of scientific research. Also, proper definition of the subject-object field of applying cognitive efforts is one of the prerequisites for conducting research of an interdisciplinary nature.

As evidenced by the analysis of the latest trends in the use of approaches to the definition of the subject and the object in the implementation of legal dissertation research, they are characterized by shortcomings, which primarily consist in the improper identification of the concepts of the subject of research and the subject of legal regulation, as well as the definition of legislation (and other similar phenomena) as concepts meaningfully included in social or legal relations.

Key words: object of research, subject of research, methodological approach, scientific legal research.

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Gennady Oleksiyovych Dubov,
Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State
Teaching and Scientific Institute of Law
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0001-9042-498X