Application of experimental legislation: the experience of Portugal and Denmark

This article is devoted to the application of the experimental approach in legal regulation. The author reveals the essence of the concept of experimental legislation and features of its realization - by describing the experience of a number of foreign states. The empirical basis of the study was the legislation and official documents of Portugal and Denmark. The goal-setting of such research works is associated with the need to recruit the necessary critical mass of foreign experience in design, launch, monitoring and evaluation of experimental regulatory tools. This, in turn, provides us with the necessary empirical normative (as well as judicial) material - for understanding the nature, ontology and prospects of operating with such instruments in public administration. In conclusion, the author turns to the complex and controversial problems of using the method of experimental legislation.