Oleg Ernestovich Leist — theoretist and philosopher of law

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of a prominent Soviet and Russian legal scholar, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Political Science of the Law Faculty, Honored Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Oleg Ernestovich Leist (1925–2003). The article shows the main stages of his scientific biography. It is noted that the work of O.E. Leist organically combines the doctrinal developments of lawyers of the pre-revolutionary school with the best that was expressed by legal scholars during the Soviet era. O.E. Leist developed a comprehensive study of law and the state. According to his estimates, on a societal scale, legal thinking cannot be formed by orders from above; it arises along with mass everyday interest in understanding social relations through specific rights and obligations of their participants, the grounds for the emergence of these rights and obligations, in connection with procedural guarantees of legal relations and responsibility for violations of rights and failure to fulfill obligations. O.E. Leist made a significant contribution to fundamental jurisprudence by developing the topic of sanctions and legal liability. His attention was focused on the analysis of the place of sanctions in the structure of a legal norm, the connection of substantive law and process with legal guarantees of members of society. The general conclusion is made that, in many ways, thanks to the works and activities of Professor Leist, the continuity of theoretical and legal science is currently ensured in Russia.

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