Russian Legislation: Projections, Prospects, Programmes (to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation)

New dynamics are continuing to emerge in Russian legislation. These include increasing sovereignty, weakening the influence of international and supranational regulators, combining modernization with constitutionalization processes, and adapting to extraordinary conditions. Under these circumstances, it is increasingly important to take into account advances in jurisprudence and other sciences when designing and predicting future legislative developments. The conceptualization of further legislative modernization has become an important and integral part of the current process of legislative enactment and reform. It is therefore not only legitimate to question the institutionalization of scientific law-making consultancy, but also to seek answers to the following questions: What predictions of legislative trends are instrumental and credible? What are the parameters of the relationship between the universal and the national in domestic law that are sufficient to meet the challenges of the times? Should we expect the role of "flexible regulators" to increase? Should mechanisms and practices for implementing court decisions into law be strengthened? What are the prospects for the systematization and "mechanization" of legislation? What are the prospects for legislative consultancy?