Журнал Viche 2013 №11

№11, 2013

Legal optimism or legal pessimism: the society requires the choice

In all life spheres (and this fact was proven long ago) optimism and optimistic moods are the ticket to success. Taking into account our present realities, only few reasons remain for optimism, optimistic moods and hopes, and for the confidence in the future. This can be explained in many ways, with impartial and subjective factors and conditions. Without trying to analyze all their aggregate, we will analyze the phenomena which conventionally can be defined as “legal pessimism” and its antipode “legal optimism”.

Nataliia ONISHCHENKO