The S. S. Alekseev’s mechanisms of legal regulation as the realization of a system approach

This article analyzes methods and methodology, first of all, a system approach, of the scientific and research activity of S. S. Alekseev, an outstanding Soviet and Russian academic lawyer, which he demonstrated in the work "The Mechanism of Legal Regulation in the Socialist State" (1966). The methods of this article are the system approach to activity in the field of legal research, as well as methodological reconstruction and the biographical method. The article presents the most active principles and postulates of the system approach to the analysis of the mechanism of legal regulation used by scientists. The conclusions are based on the two hypotheses of methodological work of the scientist: a systemic approach as a paradigm of the jurisprudence of the 1960s and a deep legal, dogmatic analysis of law itself as a means of obtaining revolutionary for Soviet science conclusions on the mechanism of legal regulation.