Hanba O. Legal Relations in the Area of Border Security of Ukraine: Theoretical and Legal Fundamentals.

The thesis deals with the theoretical and legal research of legal relations in the area of border security of Ukraine and the solution of the problem to increase the efficiency in realization of their content. The paper highlights the state of scientific study of legal relations at three levels of their scientific knowledge – general theoretical, starting with the archaic relations of primitive societies, which were governed by mononorms of archaic law, branch theoretical and concrete practical. The historical and legal aspects of formation and development of legal relations as a general theoretical category are characterized in general and their manifestations in the area of border security of Ukraine are viewed in particular. Methodological bases for the research of such legal relations are defined. The position concerning the origin of legal relations in the researched area in the pre-state era of primitive societies as the urgent need to protect the boundaries of compact territories of tribes and the sources of their existence is substantiated.