TO THE ISSUE ON THE STRUCTURE OF LEGAL THINKING

Authors

  • Sergey Vadimovich Kuklin Author

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of the problem of the concept of legal thinking,
comparing it with the concept of thinking in a logical sense, as well as other types of professional
thinking. The problems of the characteristics and structure of legal thinking are
investigated on the basis of the analysis of various points of view expressed in the scientific
literature; the author's definition of “legal thinking” is formulated. The various aspects of
legal thinking are considered: logical, socio-psychological, pragmatic and others. The author
comes to the conclusion that the criteria for the identification of legal thinking as an
independent professional thinking should be the legal nature of all its elements: the object
to which it is directed, instruments of mental activity in the form of previously established
concepts and mental activity.

Author Biography

  • Sergey Vadimovich Kuklin

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

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2016): Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series Law.

Section

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