On the Systematic Method of Scientific and Legal Research

Relevance. Methods of scientific cognition of legal reality are a reliable condition, a means of theoretical research of legal norms, legal relations, methods, techniques and means of legal regulation, measures of legal responsibility and other legal phenomena. There is no unity of opinion in Russian legal science about the legal nature, content and components of the method of scientific thinking and cognition. Legal publications and their own professional experience show that, unfortunately, law students and even teachers are not fully aware of the existence, specifics and operation of cognitive methods, means and techniques. The organizers of legal education and representatives of legal science have an urgent task to initiate the interest of lawyers in this extremely important issue and help them master the necessary methodological knowledge of the legal world. Purpose: to find out the features, purpose and content of the systematic method of legal cognition. Objectives: to investigate and clarify the concept of the method and methodology of legal scientific cognition, the features of the systemic epistemological method in jurisprudence. Methodology. In the course of the study of the designated topic, such general scientific and private scientific research methods as historical, logical, formal legal, systemic and comparative legal methods were used. Results. As a result of the conducted research, it turned out that if the methods of scientific cognition are methods, techniques, means and principles of theoretical cognition, then epistemological methodology is a universal teaching about the techniques (methods and means) of scientific cognition applied on the basis of achievements in the field of philosophy, political science, sociology, economic theory, psychology and jurisprudence. Conclusions. Systematic approach to the studied object (subject, phenomenon), the identification of systemic connections between its individual components (elements), the establishment of patterns and features of their connections with the external environment, other systems in nature, society and legal reality.