The article features an analysis of lawmaking activity of territorial entities of the Russian Federation, while focusing on some problems of regional normative legal acts. The authors define the role of legal expertise as one of the key elements of the regional law-making activity providing unity and integrity of the law over the whole territory of the Russian Federation. The analysis of the concept of “legal expertise” due to the regional regulations is given in the article, as well as its types and its essence. The authors examine different trends and approaches to the nature of the normative legal act due to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation practice, as well as in legal doctrine and legal law enforcement practice.
regional lawmaking activity, territorial entities of the Russian Federation, expertise of regional law acts, legal (judicial) expertise of law acts