General and specific legal disciplines, with a brief overview of introduction to law

• Main Author: Medar Suzana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Law, Niš 2019-01-01
• Series: Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu
• Subjects: general and specific legal sciences; legal disciplines; introduction to law; theory of state and law; philosophy of law; legal philosophy
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0350-8501/2019/0350-85011984227X.pdf

The state and law exist, both realistically in time and space and ideally as a set of pure ideas and values in time, as contents of consciousness and mental processes. Legal sciences fall into the group of social sciences. The cradle of legal sciences is ancient Rome. The subject matter of legal sciences is the study of law and the state, as closely related issues. They are divided into general (abstract) and subject-specific (concrete) legal sciences. The subject-specific legal sciences are further divided into positive-law and legal-history disciplines. The theoretical or abstract legal sciences study the law and the state in general; they include disciplines such as: Introduction to law, Theory of law and state, Sociology of law, Economics of law, Psychology of law, Political science of law, etc. Introduction to law has an interesting relationship with Philosophy of law and Legal philosophy. Introduction to law is a general, basic, and introductory legal discipline that provides experientially verifiable knowledge. Philosophy of law and legal philosophy provide trans-experiential knowledge, using methods such as: intuition, inspiration, revelation. Concerning relations with subject-specific legal sciences, Introduction to law derives from specific legal sciences, but it exceeds the scope of their subject matter by studying the the most general concepts related to the law and the state.