Some problems of using pedagogical terms when conducting examinations of regulatory legal acts and their drafts

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The article examines the problems of legal regulation of the quality of law-making activity, the accuracy of definitions of pedagogical concepts contained in normative legal acts, identified logical and stylistic contradictions in the definitions of concepts and the reasons influencing them; measures to solve these problems are determined. The objective of the article is to substantiate the need to improve the quality of expert examinations of bills and the certainty of regulatory concepts. Research objectives: 1. To identify the reasons for the poor definition of regulatory concepts and the negative consequences of applying such concepts in practice; 2. To establish logical contradictions contained in such definitions using specific examples from the current legislation; 3. To determine measures to eliminate logical errors in the definition of pedagogical concepts; 4. To clarify the logical relationship between jurisprudence and pedagogy, philology, and other sciences; 5. To identify problematic aspects of conducting expert examinations of bills. The research methods are: analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, etc. The conducted research revealed the reasons for the unsatisfactory quality of expert examinations of bills and formulations of regulatory concepts, the main conclusion was made about the need to involve teachers in the development of bills and other relevant specialists, depending on the objectives of legal regulation of a certain area of social relations, measures were proposed to solve existing problems of compliance with the principle of legal certainty.

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Sergey A. Vetoshkin

Ural State Pedagogical University

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Email: vetoshkin@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1889-6699
SPIN-code: 2314-7157

Dr. Sci. (Ped.), Assoc. Prof., Professor of the Department of Documentation, Law, History, and Russian Language, Engineering and Pedagogical Institute

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg

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