Development of the Russian agricultural law in the context of constitutional reform

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to show the self-sufficiency of agricultural law as a branch of law and the need to refer agricultural legislation to the subjects of joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and its constituent territories at the constitutional level. During the research, emphasis was placed on legal comparative studies; applied were historical-legal, comparative-legal, formal-legal and other general and special methods of the scientific knowledge. The paper resulted in conclusions from the analysis of the historical and legal development of the policy management of agricultural relations in Russia; the identified features of the constitutional regulation of agricultural relations in foreign countries, as well as the designation of the subject of legal regulation of agricultural law and the specifics of the creation of a regulatory framework in the agricultural sector in the Russian Federation. The novelty of the work lies in the conclusion about the relationship between the separation of agricultural legislation at the constitutional level into a separate industry and the effectiveness of the state’s agricultural policy at the federal and regional levels.

Keywords

• agriculture
• state regulation
• agrarian legal relations