To the question about the understanding of legal reality

Analyzed the category “legal reality” formed in philosophical and legal science taking into account different points of view. Identified three approaches to the interpretation of the essence of legal reality. The first broad approach is based on the fact that the term “legal reality” is relatively new, and to refer to the analyzed object in its broad sense, other terms are used – “legal validity”, “legal system”, “legal life”, “legal framework” and some others. The second approach is narrow, according to which there is a limitation of the scope of the concept of “legal reality” of any one or several parties to its manifestation, for example, only within the framework of the legal relationship. It is assumed that the interpretation of legal reality as the action of law narrows the scope of understanding and the boundaries of its essence, since legal reality should not act as a legal relationship, and that the scope of the essence of legal reality is much wider. The third approach is to deny the need to separate the legal reality into an independent section of the reality as a whole. It is concluded that legal reality is a kind of social reality, the whole set of legal phenomena both objective and subjective, positive and negative, taking into account the independent nature of social reality and representing a special normative way of regulation of potentially conflicting social relations, including a set of all legal manifestations in their unity.