In the monograph, for the first time in legal science, the dialectics of law as a social phenomenon and its species division are investigated, a critical analysis of general legal concepts is undertaken, new concepts of legal theory are introduced into scientific circulation. The author's consistent application of the dialectical-materialistic methodology made it possible to expose the contradictions that restrain the development of legal theory, to reach a new level of legal understanding, opening wide prospects for philosophical and theoretical legal research. At the same time, the work proposes a new solution to a number of sociological problems associated with the study of law, in particular, the dialectics of social management, regulatory regulation, etc. For social scientists, teachers, graduate students and law students, everyone who is interested in this issue.