LEGAL FORECASTING - THE ACTUAL DIRECTION OF THE THEORY OF THE RIGHT
Standing apart more and more in gnoseological function of jurisprudence, legal forecasting gains special value at a stage of post-industrial society. Investigating a legal superstructure, the processes happening in it under the influence of economic, political and ideological factors, revealing probabilistic changes of a social and legal superstructure and offering, as a result, the best ways of development of the legislation and its branches, legal forecasting promotes perspective long-term approach to the solution of the major problems of society which main production resource are information and knowledge. Scientific researches become the main driving force of development.