Open AccessThe Path of a Lawyer in the Time of Changes
Author(s) -
V. I. Lafitsky
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pravo: istoriâ i sovremennostʹ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2588-0012
DOI - 10.17277/pravo.2021.04.pp.038-058
Subject(s) - custodians , state (computer science) , civilization , law , city state , hegelianism , period (music) , political science , history , sociology , philosophy , archaeology , aesthetics , algorithm , computer science
For the first time in the scientific literature, the stages of formation and the role of lawyers as custodians of civilization and the highest values of law at different stages of state and legal development are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the content of the era of changes, coming at the turn of the last two millennia. In search of an answer to the question of what consequences can cause the era of changes, the author studies the teachings of Hegel, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Polybio on the cycles of state and legal development; establishes the factors identifying the first sunrise of the state and law in the Promised Land and the role of judges played in their formation. The author studies the process of formation of law schools in ancient Rome, in Baghdad and Cordoba caliphates, in India, Italy, France, England, some other countries in Western Europe; identifies the features of the development and the tasks of schools of law in the USA, Germany, Russia in the 19th – early 20th centuriesy; points out the tasks of the lawyers in the 21st century in preventing the degradation and decay of the existing forms of state and law.