Terekhov E.M. On the Models of Official Legal Interpretation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2025.3.6
Evgeny M. Terekhov, Candidate of Sciences (Jurisprudence), Associate Professor, Department of Public Law Disciplines, Saratov State Law Academy (Balakovo Branch), Krasnaya Zvezda St, 8/1, 413865 Balakovo, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3510-1077
Introduction: the official interpretation of legal norms is one of the elements that support the functioning of the mechanism of the legal regulation of public relations. In the vast majority of cases, it is associated with a tool for revealing the meaning of legal norms, which is used to understand them. However, having great functional potential, the official legal interpretation can be used to solve a much wider range of tasks that allow identifying independent schemes in its use. Purpose: to find the truth in the issue of establishing specific models of official legal interpretation, an attempt to identify and characterize them. Methods: the methodological framework for the research is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, including consistency, analysis, comparative law, formal law. Results: the author’s position, justified in the work, on the choice and analysis of specific models of official legal interpretation, is based on the work of scientists, the provisions of the current legislation, and legal acts of the judicial authorities of the Russian Federation. Conclusions: a historical analysis of the development of the legal interpretation demonstrates how the view of specific models of its use has changed from a banal means of revealing the meaning of legal norms to a tool that allows adapting the meaning of existing legal norms to rapidly changing social relations without adjusting the legislation. All this opens up a confident prospect of further development for the official interpretation, including the modernization of its main elements – the identification of new groups and types of interpretative acts; the expansion of relationships between its subjects and other persons; the publication of anticipatory explanations, etc. Guided by the targeted use of official interpretation in the mechanism of the legal regulation of public relations, today we can talk about the possibility of identifying classical (traditional); balanced; orienting; adaptive; complementary models. The list of specific models of official legal interpretation is not exhaustive. Further work on the study of models of official legal interpretation should be continued.
Key words: legal activity, legal interpretation activity, legal interpretation, clarification, interpretative act, interpretative practice.
Citation. Terekhov E.M. On the Models of Official Legal Interpretation. Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma, 2025, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 51-59. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2025.3.6
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