PRECARIAT IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH: LEGAL AND PHILOSOPHIC COMPREHENSION OF THE ISSUE IN THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES PERSPECTIVE

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The article investigates philosophico-theoretical issues of legal regulation of labor relations in the scientific and research sphere in connection with increasing precarization in Russia and the rest of the world. Particular emphasis is made on the analysis of characteristic features of science as a social institution and on assessing the potential negative impact of labor relations precarization on the capability of this institution to perform its basic functions in the face of global challenges. The purpose of the study is to look at the ways of preserving the functionality of research as an institution in the knowledge economy environment using the means and methods of legal regulation in Russia and other countries worldwide. The focus is made on combining the philosophical and legal methods of research with philosophical reflection preceded by a comparative legal analysis of legislative regulation and assessment of its social and legal efficiency. The study has resulted in identifying the peculiarities of governmental and legal regulation of science as a social institution in different countries in the face of grand challenges, as well as the measures taken in different countries to limit the negative impact of the knowledge economy together with the assessment of its socio-legal and politico-administrative effectiveness.

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Maria V. Zakharova

Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)

Author for correspondence.
Email: Avis_777@mail.ru

Doctor of Public Law (France), Candidate of Legal Sciences (PhD in Law), Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Head of Research and Education Center for Comparative Law

9 Sadovaya - Kudrinskaya str., Moscow, 123995, Russian Federation

Vladimir I. Przhilenskiy

Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)

Email: viprzhilenskij@msal.ru

Doctor of Science (Philosophy), Full Professor, Department of Philosophy and Sociology

9 Sadovaya - Kudrinskaya str., Moscow, 123995, Russian Federation

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