THEORY OF STATE AND LAW TEXTBOOK Part 2.

On Legal Consciousness: Based on a Critical Analysis of Legal Literature

“…This classification of legal consciousness fits into the following regularity: public legal consciousness is made up of ideas about the legal validity of certain individuals, certain social groups" [18]. In fairness, we note that the pattern in a number of cases is expressed as follows: public legal consciousness has an impact on the group, which, in turn, leaves an imprint on the individual [19].…”

The Legal System of Scotland as a Hybrid Legal System

“…Particular attention in the postwar period, up to the present, has been given to such criteria for classifying legal families, which are based on the commonality of their historical roots, the similarity of the style or model of legal thinking, the proximity of the main legal institutions, etc. Thus, Peter Kruse divided the existing national legal systems into 4 main legal families: Anglo-Saxon (common law family), Romano-Germanic (civilian), socialist and legal family of "hybrid or mixed jurisdiction" [18]. It seems that the actualization of mixed legal families is currently associated with globalization "as an objective process of rapprochement, internationalization, interdependence in all spheres of life of countries and peoples of the planet" [19].…”

The Concept, Features and Forms of Civil Legal Liability

“…It seems that it is necessary to support the position according to which legal responsibility should be understood as follows: this is the application to the offender of the measures of state coercion provided for by the penal (punitive) sanction of the legal norm, expressed in the form of deprivations of a personal, property or organizational nature. At the same time, its features are the following: 1) it has an inextricable link with state-legal coercion; 2) is combined with state condemnation and public censure of the behavior of the offender; 3) is associated with the infliction of adverse consequences of a personal, property or organizational nature to the offender; 4) is embodied in a procedural form in the course of law enforcement activities of the competent authorities of the state; 5) the establishment of the nature and scope is determined by the penal (punitive) sanction of the legal norm [1].…”