The Increasing Complexity of the Law
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-746X-2023-48-2-317-325Keywords:
complexity in law, process of complexification, innovative public law regimes, atypical regulatory technologies, public law, public law sciencesAbstract
This article is part of the scientific legal doctrine of innovative public-law regimes developed by the author. The article explores theoretical approaches to understanding the phenomenon of legal complexity and complexity in law. The article considers a number of existing approaches to the explanation of complexity in law – due to the specific nature of law. The author proves that complexity and simplicity in law are ambivalent (dual) and interrelated. Complexity and simplicity in law are not polar opposing concepts, they are in a certain complex ontological unity. The author turns to the question of the limits of simplification of law. The article considers the determinants of the growth of complexity and increasing entropy in law. The article concludes with the conclusion that the author's unfolded concepts of the axiomatic kernel of understanding and interpretation of complexity in law and in the regulatory space. The author also concludes that legal science is, objectively, a science of complexity, of complex normative, norm-realization and arbitration worlds and ontologies, processes, interactions and counteractions.
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