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Almanac of law. Issue 16 (2025), pages 148–154.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2025-16-148-154

Luts L. A., Nastasіak I. Y.
Law implementation: theoretical and practical issues

The article highlights the problems of the formation of the modern theory of law implementation, in particular, regarding its nature, demarcation with law enforcement, achieving the goal, and the possibility of revealing the real state at this stage of law regulation.

For this purpose, scientific sources, official documents (sources of international law and the legislation of Ukraine), and law enforcement acts were analyzed. This made it possible to form an idea of the state of scientific knowledge of law implementation and create an empirical basis for a general theoretical analysis and the formation of updated provisions of the theory of law implementation.

It is stated that it is important to form a clear position on the distinction between law enforcement and law implementation as independent phenomena that reflect relatively separate stages of legal regulation: law enforcement is an activity that creates conditions for law implementation, and law implementation is lawful behavior designed to ensure the implementation of the interests of participants in social relations through the exercise of their rights and obligations. Therefore, law enforcement is the activity of authorized (competent) subjects of law, and law implementation is the activity of personified subjects of law; law enforcement is a type of l law activity, and law implementation is lawful behavior; law enforcement is aimed at creating conditions (legal facts) for law implementation, while law implementation is aimed at exercising rights and obligations, satisfying relevant interests; law enforcement is generally aimed at the formation of individual legal prescriptions that determine the future lawful behavior of subjects, and law implementation is the implementation of lawful behavior in a specific life situation, that is, in the process of implementing law relations. The definition of the concept of law implementation is specified as the lawful behavior of subjects of law (individuals and legal entities), which occurs in law relations through the exercise of their rights and obligations.

The emphasis is on the need to reveal the real state of the subjects’ exercise of their rights and obligations, the achievement of legal consequences and the goal — ensuring the interests of participants in social relations. For this purpose, it is proposed to form monitoring programs that would reveal the state of law implementation, the ability of subjects to ensure their interests. It is important to analyze the holistic process of legal regulation of social relations in terms of ensuring proper conditions for law implementation through appropriate law-making, law-enforcement, law-interpreting activities and other means of achieving the goal of l law implementation and the goal of law regulation in general.

Key words: law implementation, law enforcement, law implementation practice, law regulation, lawful behavior.

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