The evolution of the doctrine principles of law in Russian legal science
The study of the principles of law has been and remains an important topic of domestic and foreign jurisprudence over a long period of time. The purpose of this article is to determine, on the basis of a comparative legal method, the general and particular in the concepts of the principles of law developed by domestic and foreign theoreticians and philosophers of law. The study revealed a feature of the evolution of the Russian doctrine of the principles of law from the interpretation of the principles of law as «foundations», «ideas», etc. to understanding them as regulators of social relations, the behavior of subjects of law, means of normative expression of legal values. This is a common thing that is inherent in the views of domestic and foreign scholars on the principles of law, since most foreign legal scholars understand the principles of law as mandatory instructions for execution with deontological or axiological content. Based on the generalization and analysis of the similarities and differences in theories of the principles of law developed by domestic and foreign scientists, the author's definition of the concept of the principles of law is presented.