THE FUNCTIONS OF HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL METHODS IN THE LEGAL COGNITION

Authors

  • Olga Anatolievna Egorova Author

Abstract

The article deals with the functions of historical and logical methods in the legal
cognition. The author characterizes different forms of legal research. Special attention is
paid to consideration of historical and legal research studies, i.e. history of domestic
state and law, history of state and law of foreign countries, history of political and legal 

doctrines. Analyzing the specific character and the importance of historical methods in
legal research, the author comes to a conclusion that concrete-historical, chronological,
historical-comparative, historical-genetic, historical-typological, retrospective, historical-
portrait and others refer to the main methods of historical and legal studies. It is
stated that in the legal research the logical methods fulfill a cognitive function as a part
of general scientific methods of legal cognition and as a part of scientific methods of
legal science. The logical methods of definition, classification, abstraction, deduction,
induction, analysis, synthesis and others can be used in the legal cognition.

Author Biography

  • Olga Anatolievna Egorova

    Senior lecturer of the Department of Theory and History of State
    and Law, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation.

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series Law.

Section

Problems and Questions on Theory of State of Law, on Constitutional Law