Administrative and Legal Regimes in the Activities of Public Administration: Legal Regulation and Law Enforcement Practice

Abstract

The article highlights topical issues of definition, legal support and implementation of special administrative and legal regimes and their impact on the functioning of state legal institutions. Some current trends and prospects for the development of emergency legislation in crisis situations are outlined, which became the subject of discussion at the III Interregional Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the memory of the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor D. N. Bakhrakh («Administrative and Legal Regimes in the Activities of Public Administration», November 15, 2023, Ekaterinburg, Ural State Law University named after V. F. Yakovlev). The abstracts of the participants’ speeches are presented and the authors’ own position on certain controversial issues is expressed.

The authors draw attention to the fact that the organizational and legal means that form the basis of the functioning of public administration are special administrative and legal regimes, including state of war, state of emergency, emergency situations, legal regimes for countering terrorism, extremist activities, closed cities, as well as mixed legal regimes applied in the fields of innovative activity of the state, business and other economic activities. The features and problems of legal regulation of special administrative and legal regimes, the differentiation of ordinary and extraordinary public administration and a number of other theoretical and practical issues related to the legal regimes of public administration are considered.