Object and subject of legal regulation: essence, content, definition, correlation

In today's world, which is characterized by innovation, there is a tendency to expand the “objects” of legal regulation, with a high degree of diversification, as can be seen in the example of social relations in the field of digital financial technologies, cryptocurrencies (virtual assets, etc.). With such dynamics and when the legislator does not improve the regulatory framework for their regulation, while not officially denying the legal nature of such social relations, at the same time, it does not unequivocally identify them as an “object” of legal regulation. There are also opposite processes, when, on the contrary, the issuance of new regulatory acts does not always occur alongside the identification of new “objects” (incomplete or incorrect identification), which does not contribute to the strengthening of the legal system and destabilizes the judicial and law enforcement systems. Purpose. The introduction of an alternative concept into the methodology of developing a fragment of general legal theory, namely through the identification of the “object” and “subject” in the basic and key categories of general legal theory, is considered an extremely important task. Conclusions. 1. Through a legal analysis of the concept of “sphere,” its relevance as a prototype for forming the definition of the concept of ‘object’ of legal regulation is substantiated. 2. The definition of the concept of “object” of legal regulation has been formulated as stable, homogeneous, objective, socially significant, and conscious-volitional social relations that are expressed in the behavior (actions) of subjects who are indirectly focused on a specific interest and/or interests-benefits (material and immaterial): which are already regulated by legal norms or are being considered for feasibility, along with the possibility of subjecting them to legal regulation (or changing or abolishing the regulated ones), within the limits of reasonable and permissible interference in the social life of society. 3. The definition of the concept of the “subject” of legal regulation has been formed as the reflection in legal norms of the content of legal regulation (including establishing its mechanism) of social relations as a component part of the object of legal

general theory of law, jurisprudence, jurisprudence, object, subject, essence of law, regularities, legal regulation, disidentification of object and subject