STAGES OF THE LEGAL EXPERIMENT: THEORETICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS
Keywords:
experiment, legal experiment, rulemaking, normative legal acts, draft law, subjects of legal experiment, responsible subjects, stages of legal experiment, assessment of regulatory impactAbstract
This article analyzes the concept of legal experiment, its types and classification, as well as the stages of legal experiment on the basis of national and foreign experience. In particular, it is proposed to prepare and conduct a legal experiment in three stages, while the range of subjects responsible for conducting a legal experiment is covered within the framework of national legislation. It was noted that conducting a legal experiment has a positive effect on the relevant area of public policy and reform, but some problems have also been identified that impede the use of a legal experiment. In the definition of a legal experiment, the main characteristics important for evaluating its effectiveness and efficiency are highlighted. The importance of the legal experiment is substantiated since each of its stages is characterized by the fulfillment of certain tasks involving the implementation of specific actions and the consolidation of their results in procedural documents. The peculiarity of the legal experiment is that it is aimed at a specially developed goal, which consists in testing one or another legal hypothesis in an artificially created environment and determining the active role of the subject of the experiment in the development of social relations.
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