Indicating the Legal Regime of Investments as a Special Scientific Category

Abstract

Introduction: the existence of a separate legal regime for investments and the necessity of investment legislation systematization are debatable issues. On the one hand, due to the multiplicity of legal acts and the lack of consistency in investment legislation it is impossible to approve unified legal regime of investments. On the other hand, there are a number of basis for highlighting the legal regulation of the investments as a separate legal regime.Methodology and materials: analysis and comparison are used for identifying criteria and peculiarities of research objects, a dialectical method is used for identifying contradictions and offering substantiations. Material base: scientific articles and Russian investment legislation.Results of the study and their discussion: the article provides a general description of the “legal regime” scientific category, which makes it possible to conclude about the usefulness of indicating the “legal regime of investments” as a specific scientific category. There is a whitespace in systematic understanding of the legal regime of investments in scientific doctrine and findings about impracticability of codifying Russian investment legislation.Conclusions: three directions of understanding the “legal regime” category are highlighted; several characteristics of legal regimes as scientific categories are defined; the acceptability of indicating the legal regime of investments as an special scientific category are substantiated; the content and scope of the “legal regime” category are defined; a scientific definition of the category “legal regime of investments” is proposed.