On the Issue of the Civil Law Community as a Category of Civil Law

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of class action lawsuits in Russia related to violations of the rights of a group of individuals. These lawsuits fall into various categories, including illegal dissemination of personal data, problems with the delivery of shipments, access to paid digital content, and others. The paper analyzes the concept and features of the civil law community as a category of civil law, and examines the legal regulation of certain types of civil law communities. In the course of the research, general scientific methods of analysis, induction and deduction, interpretation and systematization of the studied legal phenomena and the formal legal method were used. The results of the study are of a theoretical and applied nature and contain the conclusion that a civil law community is only a community in respect of which the law explicitly establishes the need to hold a general meeting in order to realize the will of its participants. Thus, the goal that the legislator set for himself, consolidating the category of “civil law community”, does not seem to have been fully achieved. An attempt was made to artificially combine essentially heterogeneous relations for general legal regulation, and at the same time a “loophole” was left, according to which specialized legislation was given priority in regulation.