Problems of the subject definition in the branch of municipal law

The article is devoted to the determination of the subject of municipal law as a branch of law. The topic of discussion, as some researchers finds that early to talk about municipal law as an independent branch of law. They consider a poor concept of the existence of municipal law solely as a complex field of law, and gives him the place of sub-constitutional law, otherwise. Meanwhile, today there is a group of relations regulated only by the municipal law, and methods of regulation. The article presents findings on the subject of municipal law for further research the legal basis of local self-government, as well as on possible ways of development of the theory of municipal law.