Dialectical, systemic, structural and functional aspects of the scientific analysis of administrative law norms

It is stressed in the article that a various gnoseological toolkit is important for scientifi c research in the fi eld of administrative law. At the appearance of new methodological approaches and their further use it is necessary to be based on the principle of complementarity. Approaches and methods must complement each other for a holistic refl ection of legal reality and generation of productive knowledge about it. This is the main axiom, which is advisable to follow, exploring the essence and content of administrative law norms. It is proved that dialectical and systemic approaches are useful for an in-depth study of administrative law norms. They can be used to identify the properties of administrative law norms, as well as to trace how these social regulators combine into a structured system with certain internal and external functional linkage. It is noted that structural and functional analyses are also essential for a comprehensive study of administrative law norms. Gnoseological potential allows selecting appropriate structural elements in current social regulators; determining the criteria of classifi cation of administrative law norms; describing administrative law norms sources' functions; analysing the peculiarities of functioning of the system of administrative law norms in the particular external environment.