The Importance of V.D. Sorokin’s Scientific Heritage for the Development of the Theory of Administrative Procedure Law as an Independent Branch of Russian Law

Based on the analysis of the opinions existing among administrative scientists about the existence of administrativeprocedural law as a separate branch of law, the reasons preventing such recognition are formulated in the article. Consideration of these reasons through the prism of V.D. Sorokin’s scientific heritage, in particular, the main properties of the process developed by him as a legal category and a mechanism of legal regulation operating at the macro level (at the level of branches of law), allowed the author of this article to conclude that these reasons are not an obstacle to the recognition of administrative procedural law as an independent branch of Russian law.