Methods of scientific research in civil dissertations

Introduction: the article is devoted to the critical analysis of the methodological parts introduced in civil dissertations and mostly not complying neither with the general methodological science not with the methodology of the law. With this, the correct choice of the scientific research methods directly influences the success of resolving the scientific problem and the argumentativeness of the novelty provisions. Purpose: to discover the problem of choice and formulation of the scientific research methods by the dissertators and to propose the ways to solve the problems. Methods: empiric methods of comparison, measuring, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logics. Results: The analysis of the authors’ abstracts showed insufficient level of the description of the methodology of works submitted for getting a civil law degree. Young civil scientists have little knowledge about the existing classifications of the scientific methods, formulate methods which are not indicated in the generic scientific methodology, do not take into account the possibilities and limitations of separate methods of research. Conclusions: It is important for the dissertators to be able to explain the importance of the chosen research methods for solving the problem set, to classify them as general scientific, interdisciplinary and specifically scientific, and as theoretical and empiric. In the methodological parts of the dissertation, the author should not only name the research methods, but to show the purpose of using each of them in the work. The specific methods of the legal phenomenon research include: historical legal, comparative legal, juridical dogmatic, interdisciplinary methods, and the method of the legal norm interpretation.