Concerning the nature of the international private law

The article analyses the discussion about the legal nature of the international private law. The author argues the thesis that for solution of this issue it is necessary to change the methodological framework and define the aforementioned legal nature based on the content of relations making up its subject, as well as the specific character of its methods, rather than affiliation of the sources of the international private law. Stating that the international private law is a complex object, the author argues an opinion on the appropriateness of application of the system approach to its study, and makes an assumption that heuristic potential of this methodology will allow to solve a wide range of epistemological issues of the international private law, including the issue of its nature.