On the basis of the analysis of the current state and trends in the Russian legislation development, the need to study the phenomenon of novelty of the law as a subject of an independent theoretical and legal research is substantiated. Taking into account the State Duma’s official position and the main approaches of the legal doctrine, the meaning of the concept of novelty is specified as fixing a certain condition of the law, and the relationship is established between its statistical and doctrinal interpretations. The authors propose a classification model of novelty of the law based on the criteria of the form of the law, novelty of its contents, the fact of existence of original novelty, its volume and degree. The content and scope of the volume and degree of novelty of laws are discussed.
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