Svetlana Vladimirovna Boshno

1. The concept of the method of legal regulation
Law is called upon to actively influence on people’s behavior. It is for this 
purpose that it is created, and it is for its achievement its effectiveness is assessed. 
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Law may affect the participants of public relations through diverse techniques that 
depend on the type of relationship, features of its participants and a number of 
other circumstances. 
Method of legal regulation is a set of methods and ways of influence on the 
subjects of social relations. 
Method of legal regulation depends on:
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the goals and objectives set by the state, uttering certain legal rules;
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the features of the subjects of legal relations;
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the nature and the relationship of the rights and responsibilities of subjects 
of legal relations;
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positions of subjects of legal relationship to each other, mediated by their 
rights and responsibilities;
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a variety of means of ensuring and securing the protection of the rule of law;
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justification of the legal relationship (state act, agreement).
Method of legal regulation depends on the goals and objectives set 
by the state, uttering certain legal standards. Activity of the state for a long 
period of time is defined by its functions. Goals can be achieved by active actions 
for the achievement of which the state «forces» by methods available to it to 
perform necessary actions for it. The goal can be the same, and methods of 
legal impact on people vary. A significant factor influencing the choice of methods 
in particular circumstances is a political regime, the power and authority of the 
state, the dominant ideology. Thus, the need to carry out large-scale construction 
could bring to life a variety of different legal solutions by a state: 1) make it an 
ideological construction, the national idea, and subjects of law under the influence 
of emotional condition of involvement into the high state affairs, will make the 
necessary (constructions of the 20th century); 2) get interested participants of 
public relations by attractive incentives to them - material or ideal - under the 
influence of which the subject of the law reaches the necessary state goals and 
shall be given a corresponding encouragement; 3) prohibit the alternative ways 
of achieving the objectives of a subject of law. It must achieve its objectives only 
if there is a match (or at least non-contradiction) of personal and governmental 
goals; 4) oblige (force) to make the necessary for the state action under the 
influence of punishment or action is carried out as a sanction for the offense 
committed earlier (forced labor).