THE VALUE OF SOURCES (FORMS) OF LAW FOR THE FORMATION OF A STYLE OF LEGAL THINKING

Abstract

The article analyzes the actual for the modern legal theory and practice question of the features of legal thinking, characteristic for the representatives of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman-German legal families. The differences of types of legal thinking considered as derivatives in relation to the sources of law leading to the mentioned legal family: law and legal precedent are revealed. Analyzing the dichotomy of types of legal thinking of lawyers of the Roman-German legal family and the common law family, the author also reveals its psychological aspect. The concept of legal thinking style as an open self-organizing and constantly updated system of intellectual strategies, techniques, skills and operations inherent to lawyers-representatives of a particular legal family due to its specific features, primarily the leading sources (forms) of law are also studied