Fabrichny Sergey Y.

The article is a review of the book ‘Times and Law' by Krasheninnikov P. V., in this book the author asks himself a question ‘What, in fact, is the Law... and where it came from'. And although the statement of the question is not new, the author suggests an original approach in the search for an answer. The investigated object (Law) is shown in three dimensions: as an activity system, a set of products and the results of activity of this system. Clearly defined framework of the object and an exhaustive list of its structural elements are important because law, along with violence and suggestion is the source of power, is emphasized in the book, and determines the destinies of a huge number of people and the viability of the results of their activities. So, there must be an exhaustive idea of the boundaries of the legal capacity of this phenomenon and its permissible manifestations. The genesis of Law is shown in the civilizational integrity, and not as a series of separate national histories. This makes it possible to verify the validity of the existing in the legal literature point of view on the nonuniversality of law as a fundamental principle of the social organization of each civilization. This book can be considered as a practical guide, because in it ‘... an attempt is made of an interdisciplinary approach to the consideration of law as a phenomenon that affects virtually all aspects of the social, personal, spiritual and political life of man and society'.