Historical and Legal Studies and their Role in Overcoming Social Entropy

Relevance. This publication is devoted to substantiating the importance of historical and legal research, the principle of analysis of which stems from the need to take into account tradition in the context of the inevitable modernization of the legal system. The relevance of historical and legal research lies in the fact that they allow harmonious and gradual improvement of the political and legal system, ensure the development of their own path of modernization, promote the choice of scientifically sound conditions, procedures and methods of its implementation.
The purpose of the study is to identify the scientific and practical meaning of historical and legal research and to establish their impact on overcoming social entropy.
Objectives: understanding the meaning, place and role of historical and legal research from the point of view of modern development of Russia, studying the nature of social entropy and ways of its leveling, determining the vectors of modernization of the domestic legal system.
Methodology. The article is prepared on the basis of the use of specially legal methods: historical, formallogical, comparative, at the same time, the historical-legal nature of the work necessitated the involvement of theoretical-legal interpretation and evaluation of state-legal ideas, structural and comparative methods.
The results of the study are theoretical and applied in nature and contain proposals in the context of the humanization of the right to revise legislation to take into account the complementary effect of moral and legal values and norms. The key vectors of modernization focused on taking into account the prevailing social practices and traditional legal values of Russian society are shown.
Conclusions. The necessity of examination of draft laws for compliance of their provisions with the traditional values of the domestic legal system is argued. It is stated that the modernization of the domestic legal sphere based on the achievements of historical and legal thought presupposes the congruence of moral and legal values, the organic convergence of tradition and innovation in the existing civilizational matrix. It is proved that the levelling of entropy in law is possible precisely due to the preservation of cultural and historical principles, following established patterns of behavior.

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