The necessity of studying the philosophical and psychological concept of the “theory of relations” for law and legal relations is substantiated. It is established that the general philosophical category of “relation” has its own significance for each socio-humanitarian science and is possible to reconstruct in legal science through the construction of relations in law – legal relations as a category of objective and subjective law. The significance of law as a social phenomenon and its inseparability from society and man is confirmed. It is found that knowledge of the laws of the “theory of relations” discovered in psychological science will productively affect the explanatory schemes of “legal relations” as a state-legal phenomenon, as well as the system of legal regulation as a whole. The article draws attention to the importance of the communicative theory of legal understanding for the development of the theory of legal relations. Theoretical assumptions about the epistemological status of trust in the system of relations through the concept of the “theory of relations” of V. N. Myasishchev are briefly formulated and proposed for discussion. It is stated that the formation of a theoretical and methodological explanation of trust as a legal phenomenon is necessary through the identification of its nature in legal regulation and the theory of legal relations.

communication, attitude, social relations, relations in law, theory of relations, trust in law, communicative theory of legal understanding

Kostyunina Olga Vladyslavovna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, Institute of Legal Research, Baikal State University (11, Lenin st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-2715-9068, RSCI Author ID: 818586, mayolgak@mail.ru

Kostyunina O. V. Kommunikaciya, otnoshenie i doverie v prave: mezhdisciplinarnyj vzglyad (chast' 1 «Teoriya otnoshenij») [Communication, relationship and trust in law: an interdisciplinary view (part 1 “Relationship theory”)] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2025, no 1(108), pp. 20–28. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2025.1.20 (in Russian)

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