Doctrinal-legal standards in Russian judicial practice
The article briefly monitors theoretical positions on the possibility of recognizing the legal doctrine as the current source (form) of the national law of representatives of Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Armenian legal science. As the main argument, the author studies the justification of law enforcement acts issued by the courts of a number of CIS member states with direct references to the doctrine of Roman law. The rationale for judicial acts is the understanding of the doctrine of Roman law, reciprocated by international and Russian law. With reference to the texts of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the author comes to the opinion that in the observed situation the role of the source (form) of law is played simultaneously by the legal doctrine and the constitutional-judicial decision as a flagship law enforcement act. The argument given in the article, illustrated by examples from judicial practice, sufficiently supported by references to Russian and foreign acts of justice, allows to recognize the ability of legal doctrine to be a source of both Russian law and to enter into the system of such sources of close national and legal systems.