Open research questions in Legal and Policy Issues
75 gap statements mined from Legal and Policy Issues papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,315 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.
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What the literature leaves open
The need to limit the discretion of public authorities in urban planning activities. The lack of systematic and universal use of characteristics of limiting discretionary powers.
Zonal Mechanism of Legal Regulation as a Way to Limit the Discretionary Powers of Public Authorities in Urban Planning Activities · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a lack of terminological and conceptual unification with regard to defining the exact scope of the concepts and principles of the rule of law and legality. The paper also identifies a need to consider the issue of the relativization of the legality criterion in the context of verifying acts of local law.
The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the concept of favorizarea infractorului, - The research seeks to address the lack of clarity in the differences between favorizarea infractorului and favorizarea infracțiunii.
The paper discusses the need for careful consideration of the use of these measures.
The research highlights the need for more detailed analysis of the use of these measures in practice.
The study notes the challenge of developing legal systems that balance individual rights with the need for social order.
The paper suggests that future research should focus on the development of legal systems in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. It recommends further analysis of the role of legal argumentation in ensuring justice and legal certainty.
There is a need for a detailed understanding of the principles of law-making activity. The current legislation may lack clarity on the principles of law-making.
Secondly, the article identifies systemic shortcomings in the legislation and practice of protecting electoral rights, in particular, insufficient awareness of citizens about their rights, lack of effective mechanisms for responding to violations, and problems with the independence of electoral bodies.
Criminal characterization and protection of electoral rights of electoral subjects: problems and prospects · 2024 · DOIThere is no doubt about the well-known fact that such a legal institution as the regulation of the activities of legal entities follows from the effectively functioning Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and a possible feature that may be related to the organizational and legal form remains to be regulated by the norms of special Legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Analysis of international experience and ways of introducing a model of legal regulation of corporate relations into the structure of the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan · 2024 · DOIThe provision of Article 110 of Dushan?s Code, which prohibits judges from taking obrok by force, has not been examined from a comparative legal point of view, although in civilizationally close Russian law, primarily in the Sudebniks from 1497 and 1550 and the Saborno ulozhenie from 1649, there are similar anti-corruption regulations that prohibit judges from taking posul.
Obrok from article 110 of the Dushan code and posul from legal sources of Russian medieval law · 2022 · DOIThe nature of the concession agreement was not understood and distinguished, that is, a concession is a transfer of the right, not the property, however, a concession agreement is the way of its realization, that triggers problems of practice regarding assignment to a certain legal sphere, legal regulation, court jurisdiction, selection of law, etc.
Unlike the employment status of police officers of BiH, which is insufficiently but still regulated, the segment of social security of these officers, specifically social insurance, whose basic branches are pension and disability insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance, is regulated exclusively at the entity level.
The gap is related to the implications of this distinction for understanding the Soviet political system.
It highlights the need to examine the development and functions of these institutions.
The applicability of interest-group analysis to the Soviet Union is disputed. The role of Soviet lawyers in the reform debate has not been fully examined.
The paper highlights the need for an analysis of the new constitution and its provisions.
Further research could analyze the impact of the constitutional reforms on the Soviet society. The study of the public debate on the draft constitution could be extended to other countries. The analysis of the proposed amendments could be used to inform future constitutional reforms.
The paper highlights the need for a detailed examination of the proposed amendments and their impact on the final text of the constitution.
The organization and activities of criminalistics institutions in Eastern Europe are not well understood. The procedural position of specialists in these institutions is not clearly defined.
The Organization, Structure and Activities of Criminalistics Institutions in the USSR and Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe · 1977 · DOIThe existing literature does not fully explain the source of law in the USSR. The role of the Communist Party in Soviet governmental affairs is not well understood.
The real source of the law of the USSR and the influence of the Communist Party of the USSR on the USSR's organs of state power · 1977 · DOIThe paper highlights the need for effective wage regulation systems.
The study highlights the need for a comparative analysis of these systems.
It has been identified that a unified approach to defining and structuring principles in sectoral legislation has not been established; however, the unity of the subject of legal regulation objectively implies the existence of a common invariant core of public safety principles…
Principles of ensuring public safety in the Russian legal system: from the transformation of normative content to the institutionalization of new approaches · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the crime prevention system in the USSR. The paper aims to fill this gap by providing an examination of the establishment and utilization of methods of crime prevention in the USSR.
Most-cited papers in Legal and Policy Issues
- Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anticommons · The Journal of Law and Economics · 2000 · 309 citations
- On the Virtues of the Old Institutionalism · Annual Review of Sociology · 1997 · 271 citations
- Artificial intelligence for the public sector: results of landscaping the use of AI in government across the European Union · Government Information Quarterly · 2022 · 271 citations
- Assessing the public policy-cycle framework in the age of artificial intelligence: From agenda-setting to policy evaluation · Government Information Quarterly · 2020 · 181 citations
- The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government · Law & Society Review · 2001 · 156 citations
- Clean fake: Authenticating documents and persons in migrant Moscow · American Ethnologist · 2013 · 143 citations
- Professional Discretion and Accountability in the Welfare State · Journal of Applied Philosophy · 2012 · 132 citations
- Credible Commitment and Property Rights: Evidence from Russia · American Political Science Review · 2004 · 105 citations
- Problems with Rules · California Law Review · 1995 · 87 citations
- Subnational Governance in Russia: How Putin Changed the Contract with His Agents and the Problems It Created for Medvedev · Publius The Journal of Federalism · 2009 · 77 citations
Most recent work
- Principles of law-making activity: theoretical and legal characteristics · Uzhhorod National University Herald Series Law · 2026
- Zonal Mechanism of Legal Regulation as a Way to Limit the Discretionary Powers of Public Authorities in Urban Planning Activities · Moscow Juridical Journal · 2026
- Democracy against Bureaucracy: the Russian Case · Max Weber Studies · 2026
- Strategic Appointments in Russia’s Procuracy · Sociology of Development · 2026
- Verification patterns of the legality of local acts in the Polish legal tradition · Prawo · 2026
- Some solutions regarding the qualification of facts under art. 209 of the Criminal Code of thE RM · Studia Universitatis Moldaviae Seria Stiinte Sociale · 2026
- Special aspect refer favoritism and favoring crime · Studia Universitatis Moldaviae Seria Stiinte Sociale · 2026
- Compulsory Medical Measures in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation · Ius Novum · 2026
- Legal argumentation in totalitarian societies · Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum · 2026
- Legal regulation of the presence and activities of Russian troops in Transnistria · Journal of Legal Studies · 2026
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