Modern Global Legal System: Convergence and Antagonism

Vyeniamin CHirkin

doi:doi:10.12737/12223

Modern Global Legal System: Convergence and Antagonism

Published в Journal of Russian Law · Volume 3, Issue 8, 2015 · Pages 0–0 · Rubrics: State and Law in a Changing World: Problems of Theory and History

DOI 10.12737/12223

Received: 28.07.2015 Accepted: 28.07.2015 Published: 28.07.2015 Language of publication: RUS

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Vyeniamin CHirkin ¹

1 Institut gosudarstva i prava Rossiyskoy akademii nauk (glavnyy nauchnyy sotrudnik)
Russian Federation

ABSTRACT

Along with the concepts of the legal systems of individual states (“country systems”) and of the legal families (“country groups” of individual similar legal systems), the author employed the methods of comparative law such as induction, content analysisto offer a broader socio-legal basis of division and to highlight three global (world) legal systems in the modern world: Muslim, liberal semi-social capitalist and totalitarian-socialist. The concept of a global legal system and a legal family (some of these families, such as the Anglo-Saxon and Roman-German, too, are global in nature), but the latter are dealt with in the framework of global legal systems (rather than separately). Such classifications are scientific concepts based on similarities and differences between the actual legal phenomena. Concepts and classifications based on global legal systems constitute their essence (formation), and identification of family-legal content of civilizational and socio-cultural nature allows a researcher to establish some new families. The author identifies the essential features of each of the three global legal systems, and such features underlie their fundamental differences, thepossibilities and limits of convergence of the global legal systems. Such limits are conditioned by varying social essence pertaining to such global systems as well astheir antagonism which makes convergence processes often superfluous rather than substantive in nature. This article discusses different legal families within various global legal systems. It states that harmonization of similar-typesocial processes is possible while it is impossible between different-type legal families.

KEYWORDS

Legal system of a state legal family global legal system formational essence civilizational socio-cultural content a new classification of legal systems and families.

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1. Institut gosudarstva i prava Rossiyskoy akademii nauk (glavnyy nauchnyy sotrudnik)

Russian Federation

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Legal system of a state, legal family, global legal system, formational essence, civilizational socio-cultural content, a new classification of legal systems and families.

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