Сurrent questions of law-making: the context of today
Authors: Kleschenko Natalia 
Published: December 2024

Introduction. Current events in the world force state bodies to make appropriate decisions, which require a thorough and professional approach to the development of regulatory and legal acts. Law-making, as a phenomenon of social reality, plays a significant, if not primary, role in the development of social relations, which are currently associated with martial law. In addition, attempts are already being made in the scientific field to outline law-making activity in the post-war period, which will undoubtedly be diﬀerent compared to the pre-war world realities.

The aim of the article. The purpose of the article is to research current issues related to law-making activity in the conditions of modern realities.

Results. Since modern legal doctrine demonstrates a powerful contribution to the development of the category «law-making», the terminological formulation of this concept is analyzed. It is noted that the seemingly purely theoretical direction related to law-making activity has extremely important practical significance, since there is an absolute certainty that the quality of our life depends precisely on the quality of law- making in general and its eﬀectiveness in particular.

Today’s law-making is embodied in two directions: 1) factual issues related to the internal regulation of social relations; 2) issues related to the European integration course. The first direction is the most relevant to the political and social realities of today’s Ukrainian society. It is characterized by constant dynamics, because the agenda now includes many issues related, first of all, to the military-political front, as well as other issues related to ensuring the functioning of the regulation of the remaining spheres of public life (social, cultural issues, etc.).

In the context of the characteristics of the first direction, mention is made of the recently adopted Law of Ukraine “On Law-Making Activities”, which provides basic definitions, establishes a clear hierarchy of normative legal acts, defines structural elements of normative legal acts, etc. This document, which only at first glance, has general theoretical significance, becomes the basis of legal regulation of rule-making activities in the state.

In addition, the creation of the Unified Glossary of Legal Terms is emphasized, in the context of which the role of the unification of legal terminology is emphasized. The creation of such a Unified glossary will help to reduce such disadvantages of legal terminology as: the designation of several diﬀerent concepts with one term or the designation of the same concept with several terms; elimination of terminological inconsistencies in laws and by-laws; the use of foreign terminology is not always justified; lack of clear definitions; use of outdated terms; use of linguistically and stylistically incorrect terms, etc.

Regarding the second direction of law-making, which concerns the continuation of the integration process, the main instrument for the implementation of which is the legal means of law-making. Therefore, with the aim of improving law-making in Ukraine, adapting laws and by-laws to EU legislation, we consider it expedient to develop a mechanism to ensure the implementation of this work. The purpose of such a mechanism is to improve the order of development, adoption and implementation of regulatory products; development of uniform rules for the adaptation of legal norms taking into account the requirements of European legislation.

Conclusions. Modern legal doctrine demonstrates a powerful contribution to the development of the category «law-making», because a suﬃcient number of definitions of this concept are given in various scientific publications. Law-making is implemented in two directions: 1) factual issues related to the internal regulation of social relations (they are the most relevant to the political and social realities of today’s Ukrainian society, characterized by constant dynamics); 2) issues related to the European integration course, which are conditioned by the reform and functioning of national law with the aim of entering the legal field of the EU.

Key words: law-making, unification, European integration, social relations, legal regulation, normative-legal act.