law formation

The article provides a comprehensive theoretical and legal analysis of the concept and essence of municipal rulemaking in the context of the latest legislative framework introduced by the Law of Ukraine No. 3354-IX "On Law-Making Activity" dated August 24, 2023. The relevance of the research is determined by the need for a scholarly conceptualization of unified approaches to the creation of legal acts and their implementation at the local level amidst the completion of the decentralization reform.

The article analyzes the doctrinal definitions of "law formation" available in modern scientific discourse and outlines the characteristic features of this phenomenon. Based on the generalization of various approaches to the definition of "law-making", the following characteristics are defined: 1) it is used in various aspects; 2) duration of legal formation; 3) contains both objective and subjective factors; 4) legal norms are formed as a result of law formation. Since law formation is a long process, it can be divided into certain stages.