Prospects for expanding the system of sources of Russian criminal law
The article proves that the current system of formal sources of criminal law with regard to its elemental composition is generally adequate to the needs of criminal legal regulation. In conditions of stability factors of the external environment in which operates the system under consideration, the implementation of doctrinal proposals for its further expansion (eg by institutional codiﬁcation of criminal law rules, incorporating criminal prohibitions in regulatory legislation) is impractical.