The relevance of the study is stipulated by the urgency to update the theoretical and legal paradigm in the aspect of an open, pluralistic and reflexive model of law integrating the achievements of related sciences into its arsenal and responding to the challenges of the modern world.

The purpose of the article is to outline interdisciplinary approaches in the general theory of law – sociological, philosophical and linguistic – as promising directions for the development of the methodology of legal phenomena.

The article explores the interdisciplinary dimension of the general theory of law in the context of the modern transformation of legal understanding. Attention is focused on the fact that openness to other scientific subjects is not only a consequence of methodological search, but also a reaction to the crisis of the normative paradigm. Interdisciplinarity is considered as an ontologically justified necessity to understand law not only as a system of norms, but as a complex social, political and linguistic phenomenon.

The potential of the sociology of law as a tool for identifying the actual operation of norms, analyzing the gap between law and social practice, studying informal regulators and institutional interaction is revealed. The sociological perspective allows us to study law as an element of social order, which does not simply exist in the form of formal norms, but is implemented in the behavior of society members, and in institutional interaction.

It is noted that political philosophy allows us to critically assess legal reality, comprehend the value principles of normative decisions, and also determine the ideological guidelines that underlie legal regulation. Political philosophy allows us to comprehend how different ideas about freedom, equality, authority and the common good shape different models of the legal system.

Special attention is paid to the linguistic approach to law, within which law is considered as a linguistic practice that forms and structures legal reality. Taken together, these directions demonstrate the urgency to go beyond normative positivism and expand the research framework of the general theory of law by integrating it into a broader humanitarian context.

Key words: linguistic approach, methodology of law, normativism, law, legal reality, legal understanding, political philosophy, sociology of law.

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