Legal technologies for social protection of posthumous and postmortem children

About the author:

Oksana A. Kursova, Cand. Sci. ( Jur.), Associate Professor, Department of Labor Law and Entrepreneurship, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia; o.a.kursova@utmn.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9170-1678

Abstract:

Social development, technological development, as a rule, far outstrips jurisprudence. Science and legislation often need time to provide already developing relations with appropriate normative regulation. From the moment when a problem is actualized and a public demand for its solution appears until the moment when the legislator models a way to solve this problem, as a rule, a certain amount of time passes. In this time interval, the problem of regulatory gap is solved through the application of various legal technologies by current legal practice, adapting normative regulation that is of little use in a new situation to solving an urgent practical problem. The article considers the features of constructing a legal technology of quasi-subjectivity, examines the issues of determining the limits of using analogy, broad interpretation and differentiation in legal regulation, as applied to determining the rights to material support and social protection of posthumous and postmortem children. For these purposes, a number of precedents of interpretation formed by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation are considered. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the choice of legal technology when deciding the issue of the limits of social protection in relation to children born after the death of a parent is influenced by various objective realities, including biomedical technologies (method of reproduction), the general level of development of legal regulation and legal doctrine.

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