Revisiting the hierarchy of the national system of legalistic sources of law

Abstract

The problem of consistency and place of legalistic sources of law, especially the ones having an indefinite a priori legal force, is highly relevant in the modern national law system. In the field of law enforcement, in this regard, there is a topical question of the lack of a unified approach to the hierarchy of sources of law, in particular when resolving conflicts of forms of their consolidation. The main attention in the article is paid to determining the place of international law in the system of national law sources. The problem of sources of law consistency is one of the most important in legal theory. Issues of the systematic and structural relationship of legal provisions require this or that approach when making law enforcement decisions, which, in turn, must be based precisely on strict and full compliance with the legal provisions. To resolve the legal problem of the sources of law hierarchy, it is necessary to refer not only to the legalistic approach, but as well to the theoretical and legal level. Thus, it seems quite certain to be able to establish the place of international law in the system of the sources of national law.