Jurisprudence of constitutional values: origin, criticism and defense against it

Abstract

This article elaborates and illustrates the theses presented by the author in the scientific report “Research on the problem of combating corruption in society in the Russian science of constitutional law” at the meeting of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University on October 20, 2023. 

Anti-corruption issues are considered as a promising area of research that can intensify discussion of the shortcomings of the legal structure of power relations as a subject of constitutional law. The article contributes to the development of scientific tools for studying the problems of political (systemic) corruption by means of constitutional and legal knowledge. The author substantiates not only the possibility, but also the inevitability and great potential of studying the problem of corruption in society in the domestic constitutional and legal science. 

The following topics are revealed: 1) The reason for the emergence of anticorruption research in the Russian science of constitutional law; 2) The main incentives for the development of interdisciplinary anti-corruption theory; 3) The concentration of scientific research in the field of combating corruption directly within the framework of Russian constitutional and legal science; 4) The structure of anti-corruption problems in constitutional and legal science; 5) The importance of anti-corruption issues for the development of modern sciences of Russian constitutional law. Conclusions are drawn about the need to support this topic, which is at the same time practically in demand and allows us to develop serious scientific research in domestic constitutional law in the current conditions.

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