Classification of legal norms: features

Legal norms - rules establishing the rights, duties and responsibilities of participants in civil relations. Classification of legal norms occurs on various grounds. Let's look at them in more detail.

By subjects of lawmaking

The concept and types of forms of law, firstly, can come from the state - the norms of representative, executive and judicial authorities. Secondly, from civil society - the norms adopted by residents of some territorial entity or citizens of the entire state.

By social purpose and role in the legal system

In this aspect, the classification of legal norms is as follows:

• constituent (principles) - regulating relations in society, the legal status of the individual, the boundaries of state influence;
• regulatory (rules of conduct) - regulating practical relations between entities through rights and obligations (authorizing, binding, prohibiting);
• protective (law enforcement) - reinforcing measures
  
  coercion for violation of legal issues;
• security (guarantees) - guaranteeing the observance of rights and obligations;
• declarative (declarations) - defining issues of legal regulation ;
• definitive (definitions) - formulating designations of legal phenomena and categories;
• Conflict (arbitrators) - eliminating disagreements between legal requirements;
• operational (tools) - setting the duration of legal acts.

Classification of legal norms on the subject of legal regulation

According to this principle, the norms differ by branches of law - constitutional, civil, criminal, labor. There is a classification of administrative law. They are also divided into material (establishing rules of conduct) and procedural (establishing the order of their implementation).

Classification of legal norms by the method of legal regulation

This principle distinguishes between imperative norms ( administrative law norms that are strict, imperious, categorical); dispositive (autonomous and implemented, as a rule, in civil law relations); recommendatory (options for the appropriate behavior of non-governmental organizations). In addition, in this direction, norms can be classified as encouraging, positive and punitive.

By scope

We can distinguish the norms:

• general actions - affecting each member of the society and operating in the regions of the entire state;
• limited action - having restrictions of a temporary, territorial, subjective nature, produced and published by authorities of the regions of the Russian Federation;
• local regulations - functioning within the framework of certain state, public or private structures.

Other classification options

In addition to the above areas of classification, legal norms are also subdivided into time - into temporary and permanent; in a circle of persons - extending to each subject to the norms in question or to specific associations of subjects (teachers, military personnel, etc.).