An analysis of the category “form of law” as an alternative to using the more ambiguous and controversial concept of “source of law” is made; the difference between the forms of positive law and the forms of objective law is determined. The problem of the possible use of the category “form of positive law” as a stable legal category in the general and branch theory of law is posed. The phenomenon of legal force is investigated and the dependence of this phenomenon, which is fundamentally important for understanding the nature of the law itself, is determined not from the external forms (shells) of law, but from their content - specific legal norms. The dependence of legal force on the level of expression in the disposition of the legal norm of one of the three modes of regulation of social interaction is established: prohibition, obligation or authorization. The necessary conclusions about the nature of the legal force derived from the regulatory significance of legal norms are drawn. Particular attention to the problem of transforming the forms of objective law into forms of positive law is drawn, the key element of which is the acquisition of a formalized sign of public authority by the form of positive law. On the basis of the performed analysis, the main problems of belonging of legal force to modern forms of positive law (in fact, to their internal normative content), as well as to acts of law enforcement and official interpretation of law, are determined. The issue of the origin and transformation of legal force as a conceptual phenomenon is touched upon, attention is drawn to the ethical problem of the correlation between the legal and moral force of the norms. Conclusions about the practical significance of using the categories “form of law”, “form of positive law”, “legal force of the legal norm” in modern legal science and in practice are drawn.

source of law, form of law, form of positive law, form of objective law, legal force, content of the form of positive law, legal norms, act of application of law, act of official interpretation of law

Spirin Mikhail Yurievich – Candidate of Juridical Science, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department Theory and History of State and Law and International Law, Law Institute, Samara National Research University of the named after S. P. Korolyov (34, Moskovskoe shaussee st., Samara, 443086, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-4147-6297, ResearcherID: AAV-6126-2021, RSCI AuthorID: 441878, e-mail: smy@samaradom.ru

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