On Legal Relations in a New Way

Aim . Development of new approaches to the subdivision of legal relations (as a generic concept with the expression of its definition) into species potential and valid. These types are recognized as initial in the explanation of legal relations and are supplemented by a different species division of legal relations. Methodology . The following special methods of legal analysis were used in the work: analysis, synthesis, generalization, hermeneutic method, historical method, comparative and structural-functional methods. As a result, the research will clearly identify both existing methodological approaches and those that have arisen due to innovations in legal thinking and are able to cover the features of knowledge of law as a social phenomenon. Results. The structure of legal relations is revealed in a new way, and the significance and significance of legal relations in the legal regulation of public relations and in the general theory of law, the theory of legal relations are determined. Research implications. It was concluded that legal relations are also significantly a form of existence and implementation of the functions of law - regulatory, protective, informational, ideological, instrumental, etc., an expression of the degree of their implementation in a state-organized society. This gives them functionality in it. Moreover, they are integratively related to all forms of law created and implemented in the state, in their hierarchy. This means that legal relations have their own hierarchy of their existence and implementation, which deserves special consideration.