On the Post-jurisprudence Issues: Topical Remarks
The article contains a comprehensive view of the phenomenon in the legal spheres of the contemporary states that manifested itself most vividly in the course of the quarantine measures taken during the 2020 pandemic. Such measures considerably narrows areas of application of the traditional legal mechanisms and gives way to simplified procedures, which duration and toughness is not fully governed by any legislative acts and is totally dependent on the discretion of the executive branch of governments. The author analyzes the situation where law, which faces pressure from various participants of social relationships in specific countries at national and international levels, responds to or, as the author says, “revenges” for its infringement. The article dwells upon the reaction of the law to the dissemination of non-legal ways of responding to various social processes and the generation of the so-called “virusprudence”. The analysis is based on the example of the crisis caused by the 2020 pandemic being especially cumbersome for the Russian national economy due to the fact that the regulatory enactments adopted in the last six years, as well as the intensive application of non-legal, supervisory and controlling measures deprive this economy of its inherent resources required for a quick comeback to its proportional development and sustainable growth. The author comes to the overall conclusion, according to which the development of new technological paradigms, the changes in the global structure of international relations and the formerly unknown environmental and sanitary challenges necessitate the accelerated revision of numerous domestic and international legal standards and the formation of the adequate legal instruments required for the development of safe and equitable international cooperation.