Definition of judicial authority concept in the context of protection of the rights and freedoms of subjects of legal relations

Brief analysis of evolution of approaches to define judicial authority shows dependence of its contents on the stages and requirements of historical development, nature of the state and public transformations. Judicial authority is actually identified to administration of the ruling elite and directed to ensure stability of monarchic board in pre-revolutionary Russia. Preservation of political conditionality of judicial system in the Soviet period of development and existence of its high-quality changes after adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation are stated. The necessity to analyze the phenomenon of judicial authority from a perspective of integrated approach, which includes not only functional and institutional components but the study of its importance for the formation and development of the Russian constitutionalism, is proved.