Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 358–363.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-358-363

Nуkolуna K. V.
Authentic interpretation: debatable issues of theory

The article is devoted to the study of the legal nature and historical origins of authentic interpretation, as well as the analysis of its practical necessity at the current stage of the development of the legal system, taking into account foreign experience.

It was found that in the Enlightenment era, judicial interpretation was subjected to considerable criticism due to the lack of legal certainty, it was considered as a distortion of the text of the law. Later, the reflection of the significance of the authority of the subject of creating legal norms for public interests was manifested in the doctrinal (including the Soviet) understanding of interpretation as a process of clarifying the will and intentions of the legislator. The author found that the most widespread in domestic jurisprudence is the approach according to which the authentic interpretation is considered as a type of official interpretation issued by the body that issued the interpreted norm. However, the author justified that in modern conditions this approach does not correspond to the latest methodological basis of legal interpretation, as it does not take into account the coordinates of social values, the results of the application of the legal norm (its social effect) and, accordingly, the possibility of dynamic interpretation.

Conclusions are made about the justification of authentic interpretation when clarifying the content of contracts, agreements, including international ones, when the will of the parties at the time of concluding these acts is of primary importance. It is emphasized that the explanations of law-making subjects regarding the specifics of the application of this or that normative legal act (legal prescription) may have a recommendatory nature. The article emphasizes that the presence of an independent professional subject of interpretation in the person of judges, firstly, disciplines the legislator regarding the strict observance of the rules of legal technique and the minimization of gaps, inaccuracies and ambiguous terms in legal texts; secondly, it is the judges who have the necessary level of expertise and training to apply all modern methods and approaches of legal interpretation to choose the interpretation option most appropriate to public values and social context in a specific case. The importance of establishing at the level of legal regulation the authority of bodies (their structural subdivisions) regarding authentic interpretation, types and legal procedure for the adoption of relevant interpretative acts is asserted.

Key words: authentic interpretation; official interpretation; subjects of interpretation; interpretive norms.

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Kateryna Valeriivna Nikolyna,
Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State
Teaching and Scientific Institute of Law
of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-8603-1013