Law Heritage in the Communicative Dimension

Abstract

The article is devoted to the philosophical and legal study of the category of “law heritage” as a complex multi-vector concept. The article highlights the normative array, legal practice, scientific legal concepts and unofficial law texts of previous periods of development of the national law system, which have developed historically and have passed the test of time and explicate the attitude to social and official law of various social groups and (or) society as a whole, as objects of law heritage. The significance of law heritage in law existence is determined by its features: continuity, unity, normativity, sociality. The main attention in the article is paid to the study of the construction and existence of law heritage in the communicative dimension. Based on the analysis of the ontological, phenomenological and axiological aspects of this category, it is concluded that law heritage acts as a valuebased means of consolidating law knowledge, explicating the community’s ideas about law norms and values within the space-time continuum, which have been tested in practice, demonstrating their effectiveness in ensuring law and order, and the use of which in lawmaking and (or) law enforcement can ensure the harmonization of modern law reality.