Origins of the russian doctrine of public law

Abstract

In March 2020, long-awaited amendments by lawyers were introduced to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, rehabilitating Russian public law at the constitutional level after its political ban in the USSR and almost 100 years of official "oblivion" in domestic jurisprudence (with the exception, perhaps, of international public law). Taking into account scientific and legislative sources on the history and theory of European and domestic public law that have become publicly available since the 1990s, the article, based on the methodology of dialectical, retrospective, systemic, logical, formal-legal and comparative-legal analysis, examines and considers the genesis, various concepts and the final doctrinal model of public law and public-law science in the Russian Empire. At the same time, the author's scientific hypothesis is formulated and the conclusion is substantiated about the choice and beginning of the implementation by domestic jurisprudence of its own statutory multi-branch doctrine of prerevolutionary public law by the end of the 19th century.