Svetlana Vladimirovna Boshno

---

47
JURISPRUDENCE: PRESENTATION OF A 
TEXTBOOK
MEANS AND METHODS OF LEGAL REGULATION
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2014.3.7
 Svetlana Vladimirovna Boshno, Doctor of Legal Sciences, 
Professor, Head of Political Science and Law Department of the 
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public 
Administration, e-mail: [e-mail]. 
Abstract. 
The article discusses a method of legal regulation as a set of ways 
to influence the subjects of public relations. The article considers 
circumstances, predetermining the method of legal regulation 
of: the goals and objectives set by the state, uttering certain legal 
rules; features of the subjects of legal relations; the nature and 
the relationship of rights and duties of subjects of legal relations;
provisions of subjects of legal relations to each other, mediated 
by their rights and responsibilities; various means of securing and 
protecting the rule of law; bases of occurrence of legal relationship 
(state act, agreement). The author gives a classification of methods 
and techniques of legal regulation. Imperative method is disclosed 
through obliging and prohibition. The article discusses ways of 
dispositive legal regulation: encouragement, recommendation. The 
author formulates the definition of indifferent dispositive norms. 
Their main technique of influence on subjects of public relations is 
informing on possible legal behavior without encouragement and 
recommendation. 
Keywords: 
method of legal regulation, ways of legal regulation, entitlement, bind, 
prohibition, dispositive method of legal regulation, imperative method 
of legal regulation, indifferent dispositive regulation, encouragement, 
positive responsibility, recommendation, in excess of the activity, 
competence.