Administrative Procedural Law in Russia: Status, Problems and Prospects

Based on the analysis of legal acts, with the involvement of the works of Russian and foreign scientists, the results of modern research, this article describes the current state of the branch of administrative procedural law in Russia. On the basis of the doctrinal provisions of Russian and foreign administrative and administrative procedural legislation, the concept, content, structure and system of building the administrative process and administrative procedural law in Russia are studied. The purpose of the study is to formulate generalized recommendations for the legislator to eliminate existing gaps in legal regulation, to determine the directions and trends in the construction and development of the sectoral concept of the theory of administrative process and administrative procedural law, to develop proposals for improving the mechanism of legal regulation. In achieving the goal of the study, the Author relied on modern methods of cognition, identified and developed by legal science and tested by practice. The general methodological basis was the method of materialistic dialectics and conceptual analysis of legal reality, allowing to consider and reveal the problems of categorical understanding of the administrative process and administrative procedural law in a complex, inseparable unity with other legal phenomena and categories. In the course of the study, private scientific and special methods of cognition were used: formal-logical, analogies and generalizations (when presenting the entire research material and drawing conclusions); methods of systematic and comparative legal analysis (when studying normative legal acts and other sources); historical and statistical methods (in the process of retrospective study of legal acts, special literature on the issues under study); content analysis (in the process of sampling and analysis of certain provisions of legislative and other regulatory legal acts, statistical data, monographs, scientific publications). Using the method of legal modeling, proposals were formulated and substantiated for the modern interpretation of administrative procedural law in the mechanism of legal regulation, its role and place in the structure of Russian law. Within the framework of this study, appropriate legal tools are proposed for resolving the most important tasks today in the field of administrative procedural legal relations. For this reason, the core of the modern doctrine of administrative procedural law, in our opinion, can be the concept of the administrative process as a complex normative formation, strictly regulated by the legislation of the established procedure for the activities of its participants in resolving judicial administrative cases and cases of administrative offenses regulated by the norms of administrative procedural law. the rights. It is summarized that in a modern civilized civil society it is impossible only by the presence of norms and branches of substantive law to judge the development and democracy of the legal system of the state. Procedural norms play an important and increasingly significant role in ensuring the rule of law, protecting the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens and organizations from unlawful encroachments. Without fundamental scientific research on the legal process and the theory of procedural law in general and administrative procedural law in particular, it is impossible to assess the real state of the mechanism of legal regulation. And, consequently, the real state of law in the country and the degree of real protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of its citizens, organizations and businesses from unlawful interference in their legitimate activities by bodies and officials of the official administration.

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