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As part of the implementation of the grant project on the topic of IRN 19678348 "The Collapse of the Russian Empire and the revival of the Kazakh statehood: historical and legal analysis", a theoretical seminar was held at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University at the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law. 

The speaker is Professor Nurpeisov Yerkesh Kalievich.  The topic of the report is "Methodological problems of the theory of state and law". 

The seminar discussed fundamental issues of the theory of state and law, namely the essence of the state, the role of the state in modern society. Professor E.K. Nurpeisov believes that a critical approach to the conceptual apparatus of the theory of state and law is necessary, especially in terms of using the concepts of sovereignty, federation, autonomy, form of government and form of government, etc.

Continuing the topic of research methods, Professor E.K. Nurpeisov believes that when studying the transformation of state-legal phenomena as a whole, or their fragments, it is necessary to use a dialectical method of correlating the historical and logical, when the description of historical processes and facts is accompanied by their logical explanation and prediction of their prospects.

And further, Professor E.K. Nurpeisov suggests paying special attention to the methodological trend “Scientific and Technological Optimism” that arose in the 1960s and 1970s, believing that social contradictions and global problems can be solved using the achievements of scientific and technological progress.

The modern level of the Internet and the technological breakthrough in the study and development of living and inanimate nature give reason to believe that representatives of this worldview more than fifty years ago anticipated the possibilities of cognition of social and natural phenomena. The possibility of scientific forecasting using quantitative estimates of the probable and desirable state of reality has become a reality. At the same time, the forecast of probable events mobilizes government agencies. And the forecast of desirable events inspires healthy forces of society, humanitarian-oriented political parties, associations and movements.

Armed with the methodology of scientific and technological optimism, it is necessary to study the possibility and reality of the transformation of the state structure, the trends of decentralization and deconcentration of state power, provided that the institutions of local self–government function.

The seminar was also attended by the project executors – leading scientists of Kazakhstan: Doctor of Law, Professor Ibraуeva A.S.; Doctor of History, Professor Auanasova A.; Candidate of of History, Professor S. Akkuly; Candidate of Law, Associate Professor Kuandykov B.Zh.; Candidate of Law, Associate Professor Dautaliev K.

It was accepted the decision to hold such scientific seminars on an ongoing basis.