The Lawmaking School: From the Development of Legal Technique to Modern Legal Technologies

Abstract

The article deals with the history of formation and further development of the lawmaking school of sought of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law for the whole period of its existence since 1925 up to now. The transformation of one of the Institute’s research guidelines — the questions of legal technique and legal technology — to the theory of lawmaking is demonstrated. Special attention is paid to the period of formation of the lawmaking school of sought from the end of 1920, to the significance of changes in the profile of the Institute’s activity, and to the extension of research guidelines of the Institute. The authors examine the impact of new phenomena in lawmaking: legal monitoring; forecasting; regulatory impact assessment; experimental application of new legal solutions within a particular region or social group; information technologies in legal systematization and processing of legal data; neurolinguistic legal technology affecting the issues of improving the legal language; etc. The article presents the names of distinguished scholars and great lawyers who are the representatives of the lawmaking school of sought of the Institute. The contribution of this persons to the formation and development of lawmaking school of sought and their role in development of theoretical problems of lawmaking, legal drafting, systematization of legislation, improvement of the legal language, legal technique and legal technology are revealed.