Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The scientific research discusses a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of legal texts that have their own specifics in comparison with ordinary ones, containing special legal terminology and laid out according to the rules of legal technique. The norms of law contained in normative legal acts are subject to interpretation, exclusively in accordance with other norms of law and taking into account the principles of legal science. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the fact that legal norms regulate relations arising in society and are addressed primarily to people. Due to the development of public relations, they need precise legal regulation and the creation of conditions for uniform law enforcement. Interpretation is a process of mental activity aimed at understanding the meaning of legal norms. A correct and unambiguous interpretation of the norms of law will allow not only to study them, understand their authentic meaning, but also to get into the spirit of law and its fundamental principles in general. The paper examines the concept of interpretation of legal norms, types and methods of interpretation, as well as identifies the peculiarities of interpretation by the body of supreme constitutional justice, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, and notes its important role in ensuring uniformity of law enforcement. The presence of defects in legal acts requires reopening the issue of improving activities that allow correcting and replenishing the provisions of regulatory legal acts. The article analyzes approaches to the interpretation of legal norms, identifies problems of interpretation. Based on the results of the study, it is concluded that the correct interpretation of legal norms is necessary. For these purposes, the author proposes the use of different methods of interpretation in combination.
Source: Legal Linguistics
Author: Olesya Kazantseva
Institution: Altai State University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409356110