Law in the modern world: directions of modernization
The article presents one of fundamental problems of legal science and practice. Selection of correct directions and goals, mechanisms of legal influence on social and other processes becomes more significant in conditions of globalization and intensive legal regulation. Directions of modernization of law reflect activity of different internal and external factors. Analysis of such directions allows being correctly oriented on legal and non-legal spheres of states and international community, to find measures and limits of regulation, run risks and conflicts. The article globally examines such directions as spheres of legal regulation, enlargement of regulation and volume of legal relations and collisions, contradiction between legal regulators and people's behavior, growing institutionalization in the states and international relations. Necessity of creation of macro theory of law including legal doctrines, theories of lawmaking and law-enforcement, comparative law, legal sociology and psychology, legal conflict resolution studies is substantiated by the author. Such position facilitates successful solution of strategic goals of country and development of methodology of legal forecasting, elaboration of new system of linked national and international legal acts, ways of analysis and examination of effectiveness of legal solutions. Conclusions and recommendations are useful in legal theory and practice as well as educational process.