Abstract
<jats:p>The article, based on an analysis of doctrinal approaches to understanding the norm of administrative law, determines the theoretical and legal foundations for the formation of its structure as an integral system of internal and external connections, and substantiates the author’s vision of the role of such connections in ensuring the public-law nature, legal effect, and effectiveness of administrative law norms within the mechanism of administrative-law regulation. It is noted that the structure of an administrative-law norm consists of internal and external connections at both vertical and horizontal levels, which ensure the unity of the elements of the norm and its integral properties identified on the basis of the principles of preservation and invariance. Such a structure reflects the public-law nature of the norm and ensures its legal effect and effectiveness. It is emphasized that the understanding of the structure of an administrative-law norm proposed by the author makes it possible to overcome the widespread identification in legal scholarship of the structure of a legal norm with its formal element-based composition. Naturally, the emphasis on a system of internal and external connections creates opportunities to explain the specific features of the functioning of administrative-law norms within various legal institutions, sub-branches, and the mechanism of administrative-law regulation as a whole. In our view, this approach contributes to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of administrative-law norms, their capacity to adapt to changes in the sphere of public administration, and their ability to ensure the coherence of normative influence under conditions of increasing complexity of public-law relations. It is also noted that the results of the conducted research are significant not only for the development of the theory of administrative law, but also for further scholarly inquiries related to the issues of effectiveness of administrative-law regulation, goal-setting, and interaction of legal norms belonging to different branches of law. The proposed approach to the structure of an administrative-law norm may be used as a methodological basis for analyzing the transformation of administrative-law norms, improving rule-making activities, as well as for comprehensive research into the mechanisms for the implementation and enforcement of public-law prescriptions in the contemporary conditions of state and societal development. Keywords: administrative law, rule of law, rule of administrative law, system of admi-nistrative law, structure of legal rule.</jats:p>