Abstract: This article tackles the challenge of understanding the phenomenon of lawmaking as a dynamic process, associated with number of transitional stages, including the stage of socialization of objective law, which completes the lawmaking cycle. Assessments are made on the supremacy of the social “reading” of law as a scientific theory platform of legal research. The authors expound the conceptual meaning of socialization of law and the role of this process within the structure of lawmaking. It is determined that positive law (established in the texts of legislative bills with normative content) becomes and objective reality when it is implemented into the fabric of the social life and included into the systems of social interaction as an intrinsic element. The social interaction environment of the processes of legal socialization functions as an active social mechanism for practical actualization of normative bills passed by the lawmakers. Law as an active means and the result of the lawmaking processes is “actualized” in reality (becomes an objective fact) only after it passes the stage of socialization and is processed by the participants of the social legal space as a viable resource.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the problem of participation of the civil society institutions in the legal policy of a state as a form of expression of government by the people. The concept of law-making legal relations is introduced the into scientific circulation. The author also determins the scope of legal capacity of civil society subjects, them taking part in the law-making. A basis is founded for forms of participation in processes of actual law formation by both persons and public organizations. It is stated that more of responsible participation of civil society in legal development of the state should take place.