A concept of operational lawmaking technology

Abstract

The technology of operational lawmaking is a subtype of lawmaking technology; the latter is a type of legal technology. The technology of operational lawmaking is characterized by an emergency, extraordinary content; suddenly emerging social relations are the main characteristic of this phenomenon, the core and basis of operational lawmaking. There is no doubt that there is a peculiar nature of operational lawmaking (phenomenon). “Challenge accepted” – a heading of T. Zamakhina’s article: The State Duma and the Federation Council promptly adopted a package of laws aimed at implementing the initiatives of the President of the Russian Federation to support citizens and the state's economy in connection with the spread of COVID-19 [1]. The subject of this study is the technology of operational lawmaking. The objective of this study is to prove that there is a separate, independent “operational lawmaking technology” along with the current (usual) technology of lawmaking. The study used the following methods: dialectical, logical, systemic, comparative, structural-functional, and statistical. The following results were achieved: it was revealed that the “operational lawmaking technology” exists as an independent phenomenon with its own specific features, has its own content and form, and, accordingly, the concept is produced in crisis situations, presupposes a special strategy, tactics, approaches and methods.