The method of Veniamin Fedorovich Yakovlev

The article is devoted to the main work of the Soviet and Russian statesman, legal scholar, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR Veniamin Fedorovich Yakovlev. This work is the only monographic study of the method of Civil Law in the Russian literature. The article presents the key positions of V. F. Yakovlev’s research on the method of Civil Law and their perception in the Russian doctrine: the connection with the subject of Civil Law, the disclosure of its main feature – the right of ownership, as well as dispositivity. Another distinctive feature of the civil law method is the legal initiative, which is used by civil law as a driving principle in the formation and development of civil legal relations. It is emphasized that V. F. Yakovlev also paid attention to the consideration of the legal equality of subjects as a feature of Civil Law, described in detail the specifics of coercion, sanctions and responsibility in Civil Law, taking into account the specifics of the method of civil law regulation of public relations.