PUBLIC INTERESTS AND LEDAL CONSTRUCTIONS DERIVED FROM THEM

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The article observes public interests, firstly, as a social regulative system in the Russian law, and secondly, as a scientific conception of law in legal science. It also researches possibilities of building legal constructions based on public interests with an aim to improve the legal regulation. Basing on the general theory of law and administrative law, the authors analyze: 1) the essence and grounds of public interests; 2) transformation of the Russian historical-theoretical conceptions of public interests; 3) modern interpretations of the phenomenon of public interests in the Russian legal doctrine, legislation and judicial practice; 4) some differences in the Western and Russian conceptions of public interests; 5) separate legal mechanics based on public interests. I.e. the authors talk about objectivating public interests, defining its forms of appearance and possibilities of implementation in the Russian society, law and state. Nowadays categories «public interest», «state interest», «social interest», «general public interests» as well as similar ones are widely used in the Russian legal science, law-making and law enforcement. The problem of its defining as well as identifying public and state interests is still not solved. The article emphasizes the absence of legal definition of public interests in the Russian legislation what causes its use as an evaluation category in the law enforcement practice. This follows by uncertainty in the legal regulation. From other side the term remains flexible and movable, helps coordinate moral and legal content, allows take into account specificity of public interests in each and every case. The article observes position of the Constitutional Court of Russia which defines correlation between public interests and similar categories, e.g. general interest. According to the authors’ opinion, public interests form legal mechanics uniting legal principles, institutes and rules. Examples of such mechanics are corporate-public regulation and public-private partnership.

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Alexander B Zelentsov

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: abzelentsov@yandex.ru

doctor of juridical sciences, professor of Department of Administrative and Financial Law of RUDN University, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation

6, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, Russia, 117198

Marina V Nemytina

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Email: nemytina_mv@rudn.university

doctor of juridical sciences, professor, head of Department of History of Law and State of RUDN University

6, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, Russia, 117198

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