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Article Legal Systems of the World: Past and Present of the Legal Families Approach to Their Types
Authors Lukianov D.
Name of magazine Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version)
Issue 9 / 2015
Pages 81 - 89
Annotation The issues of legal systems types according to legal families with a view to work out proper methodological basis of their research are studied in the article. Characteristics of a legal system and its components are given in the article. The author analyzes approaches to classification of legal systems since 1874, up to contemporary ones. It is argued that an ideological component (legal awareness and legal culture of society) should be considered the main criterium of combining legal systems in legal families. Other phenomena of a legal system (legal norms and their system, sources of law, etc.) result from the above ideological component.
Keywords legal system, legal family, comparative jurisprudence, types of legal systems, legal families approach.
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