On the interpretation of the term "legal regulation"

The article examines approaches to the definition of the concept «legal regulation». It was found that this new term was defined by soviet scientists in the 1960s. However, some modern researchers demonstrate the freedom of speech and propose their own versions of definitions. They often include in the formulation the features of legal regulation that seem to them the most important. The analysis of the studied definitions made it possible to conclude that their semantic meaning may be different, but the essence of the studied phenomenon does not change from this. Regulation is understood as ordering. Legal regulation logically means ordering by means of law, which is characterized by: normativity, formal certainty, universality and compulsion. The complex of these features distinguishes law from other regulators of social relations, for example, religion or morality. Legal regulation was interpreted by scientists in the 1960s, taking into account these signs. The political, economic and social changes that took place in post-Soviet Russia did not affect on the essence of the phenomenon.