Source study paradigm in modern jurisprudence: from the study of sources and forms of law to a scientific discipline

The article analyzes the issue of the place and role of source studies in the structure of modern jurisprudence through the prism of a paradigm approach — assessment of the process of formation, formalization and recognition in the scientific community as a new research direction in legal science. The author shows the main trends in the disciplinary isolation of source studies in the social sciences and humanities and, against this background, characterizes the processes of formation of the source study direction in jurisprudence. Particular attention is paid to the problem of positioning legal source studies as a direction in the structure of legal science.