To the question about the essence of the legal interest

The article examines the problems of the essence of legal interest, analyzes the question of its objective or subjective nature, examines the relationship of the concepts of "interest" and "legal interest", the features of legal interests, the mechanism of interest transformation into legal interest, reveals the meaning of these concepts for the modern science of the theory of state and law. The author notes that in the scientific literature there is no unity of opinion on the essence of the concept of interest and the factors affecting its emergence, development, regulation and legal support. On the basis of the analysis of the points of view presented in the legal literature, the author proposes the definition of the concept of legal interest as an objective scientific category, in the form of representing a legal relationship, the internal content of which is a need that has a social character and manifests itself in the understanding and implementation of goals, and the external party - legally significant actions aimed at ensuring that the subject of law can realize its needs, receiving any benefit or benefit.