Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

In the article, it is determined the directions for improving the legislative, administrative and law-making processes and the law enforcement activity, given on the basis of the study of philosophical and legal (philosophy of law’s) and legal (theory of law’s) literature and with the help of the semiotic legal analysis. The lawmaking, law enforcement and legal education as the legal sign constructions and elements of the legal reality are analyzed with the use of semiotic methodology. It is necessary to assess the lawmaking, law enforcement and legal education in complex, to identify their most essential features through the use of semiotic approach. Semiotics and legal analysis indicates authoritativeness as the essential features of the main forms of legal activities. Semiotics and legal analysis of the legal activities in the context of semantic and symbolic element composition of the legal system is intended to disclose the nature, meaning and social purpose of law. This can help in solving the following responsible task such as the building of a model of improvement of process of application of the law. In the article, the context of state-government legal activities in the current conditions is considered with the aim to determine the spiritual and ideological bases of consolidation and optimal forms of social and political organization of society and domestic life and to outline general directions of reforming the legal system of Ukraine. Main directions for improving of legal activity were grouped in into several blocks including Normative-legal unit, Organizational unit, Logistical and financial unit, «Enlightenment» unit, etc. With the help of semiotic methodology, it is determined that the logical-functional analysis and formalization are the optimal ways to improve the effectiveness of the legal activity. The importance of the semiotic approach to solve many problems of Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence on the modern level of its development is described.