Traditional Law on the Legal Map of the Modern World
- Authors: Solovyov M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 15-24
- Section: Theory and history of state and law
- Published: 11.01.2026
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2414-5750/article/view/364589
- ID: 364589
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Abstract
The article presents an analysis of traditional legal systems in the context of their relationship with positive law. The author reveals the concept and characteristic features of traditional law, explores its legal regulators, legal norms, structure and originality of legal technique. Special attention is paid to the diversity of traditional legal systems in geographical and chronological terms, their classification and the specifics of functioning in different regions of the world. Attention is drawn to the general patterns and trends of the evolution of traditional law in the context of the modernization of law, the problems of interaction of legal cultures and ensuring legal pluralism in the modern world are analyzed.
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The author declares no conflict of interests.
The article was submitted 25.05.2025; approved after reviewing 16.06.2025; accepted for publication 18.06.2025.
About the authors
Maxim A. Solovyov
Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev
Author for correspondence.
Email: maks.iriskin.01@mail.ru
2nd year student
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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