M. : NORMA Publishing House, 2001. — 752 s. ISBN: 5-89123-536-6 (NORMA), The book is the result of many years of work by the author on theoretical problems of law. Summarizing the data of previously published works, this edition contains a number of new materials reflecting in a systematic presentation the search for and questioning of such approaches to law that justify its high place in modern society, in the life of every person. The book has a problematic, on a number of points staged, debatable character. The publication is designed for researchers, teachers, graduate students, students of legal and non-legal universities - for anyone who has an interest in problematic developments about the state and development of law in the modern world, its place and role in people's lives, in the fate of human society.