The State as the Legal Order and the Legal Order Without a State
The article analyzes the concept of the State as the legal order, developed by Hans Kelsen; its advantages in comparison with the traditional sociological interpretations of the State. The author emphasizes that Hans Kelsen had foreseen many modern trends in the development of law, in particular, the blurring of the distinction between international and national legal orders. But his idea of strengthening the centralization and organizational unity of the universal world legal order turned out to be erroneous. The modern legal order has heterarhical character, a network structure and does not ensure the unity and consistency of regulation.