Обґрунтовано потребу визначення службового права як інституту, підгалузі адміністративного права, формулювання його предмета, методів, системи, пошуку оптимального варіанта його системи. Чільне місце серед наукових тематичних розробок посідають дослідження, спрямовані на визначення джерел службового права, пріоритетів їх систематизації у різних формах.
The article analyzes the modern stage of development of the administrative-legal science and the priorities of the study of problematic issues of the service law. It is noted that this stage, which began in the XXI century and continues until this time, is a "fundamental" stage in the formation of a service law. It was during this period that the efforts of scholar-administrators, focused on the development of the theory of service law, were significantly intensified. Along with scientific studies, directly devoted to certain types of public service, problematic issues of the legal status of public servants, reform of the system of legislation on public service, there are scientific thematic works of complex content. Academic administrators justify the need to define the service law as an institution, the sub-branch of administrative law, the formulation of its subject, methods, systems, and the search for an optimal variant of its system. The main place among the scientific thematic developments are studies aimed at identifying sources of service law, the priorities of their systematization in various forms. It is also expedient to see the approximation of the provisions of domestic legal science on issues of official law to the provisions of European legal science, the harmonization of their content, the introduction of a number of European legal institutes in the domestic legal science. The latest stage in the formation of a service law is "significant" for a new theory of service law, since it is during this period that the foundations of a new theory of service law are laid down that are in line with the priorities of the formation of the theory of administrative law in general and all its elements in particular. It is in the recent period of the formation of a service law that the basis for understanding of the service law, its content, purpose and further directions of development, development and adoption of a new codified normative legal act is laid.
