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  5. Interpretation of Law as a Form of Law Implementation: On the Theoretical Foundations of Conceptualization

Almanac of law. Issue 17 (2026), pages 67–73.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2026-17-67-73

Kostytsky V. V., Linetskyi S. V.
Interpretation of Law as a Form of Law Implementation: On the Theoretical Foundations of Conceptualization

The article is devoted to the theoretical and legal analysis of the correlation between interpretation and implementation of law. The authors substantiate the concept of interpretation of law as a separate (additional) form of law implementation, alongside compliance, application, execution, and use. It is proven that distinguishing interpretation of law as such a form of law implementation is possible only in the context of rejecting the narrow normativist approach, which equates the implementation of law with the implementation of legal norms. Proceeding from the concepts of the “broad” understanding of law implementation and the multi-source nature of law, the authors demonstrate the relevance and productivity of a scientific approach within which interpretation of law occupies a distinct place in the classification of established (traditional) forms of law implementation and even gradually strengthens its position as law develops and its content and structure become more complex.

It is established that the autonomous significance of interpretation of law as a form of its implementation becomes possible on the basis of applying a post-normativist interdisciplinary scientific and methodological approach, which synthesizes elements of neopositivism, sociology of law, as well as phenomenology, anthropology, and axiology of law. In this context, the complex-structured nature of law implementation as a legal phenomenon is confirmed, which mediates, alongside the exercise of law, application of law, legal behavior, and legal regulation, also the interpretation of law as a separate form of law implementation. With the increasing juridification of social relations and the progressive development of legal systems, interpretation of law acquires particular weight and significance precisely within the structure of law implementation as its form and an indispensable component of this phenomenon.

Keywords: implementation of law, implementation of legal norms, “broad” and “narrow” approaches to law implementation, forms of law implementation, normativism, interpretation of law, law as text, legal hermeneutics.

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Дата першого надходження рукопису до видання: 25.02.2026
Дата прийнятого до друку рукопису після рецензування: 09.04.2026
Дата публікації: 30.04.2026

     

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