FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE AS A FACTOR IN IMPROVING THE PRACTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL JUDICATURE
- Authors: Bezrukov A.V1,2, Kozhevnikov O.A3,4
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Affiliations:
- Siberian Federal University
- Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
- Yakovlev Ural State Law University
- Ural State University of Economics
- Issue: No 12 (2025)
- Pages: 154-162
- Section: Domestic lawyers – scientists and educators
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1026-9452/article/view/355801
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034543X25120163
- ID: 355801
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Abstract
The article presents an analytical review of the main scientific ideas and works of Alexander Nikolaevich Kokotov, one of the leading Russian constitutionalists, a representative of the Ural and then St. Petersburg law schools, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, in honor of his 65th birthday. The analysis of the main scientific developments of the scientist in the fields of Constitutional and Municipal Law, federalism and local self-government, Electoral and Parliamentary Law, the system of public authority and constitutional justice is carried out. The authors show the significant contribution of the hero of the day to the development of the science of Constitutional Law and individual constitutional and legal institutions (Parliamentary Law, Electoral Law, the system of public authority, constitutional justice, etc.), as well as to the practice of constitutional justice in Russia. Conclusions are formulated about the promising nature of A.N. Kokotov's key scientific research, a successful combination of serious research and acquired practical experience of the scientist as a factor in improving the quality of the practice of constitutional justice in general. The authors focus on the analysis of the Professor's scientific research, which is devoted to understanding the legal nature of the constitution and constitutional legislation, the system of public authority and constitutional justice, parliamentarism and Electoral Law, Russian federalism and local self-government as the most important areas of development of constitutional doctrine and practice.
About the authors
A. V Bezrukov
Siberian Federal University; Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: abezrukov@bk.ru
Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and Municipal Law, Law Institute; Professor of the Department of State and Legal Disciplines Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Krasnoyarsk, Russia
O. A Kozhevnikov
Yakovlev Ural State Law University; Ural State University of Economics
Email: jktu1976@yandex.ru
Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law; Professor of the Department of Constitutional and International Law 21 Komsomolskaya str., 620066 Yekaterinburg, Russia; 62, 8 Marta str., 620144 Yekaterinburg, Russia
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