Annotation. The article describes the main provisions of the post-classical methodology of law. It shows the role of the principle of additionality, linguistic, anthropological and pragmatic "turns" for the methodology of jurisprudence. The author defines law as a social construct. The right is of the ruling social group and is reproduced practices of the popular masses. Post- classical methodology of the right is specified by "quality" methods specific to the legal research. Among them the attention is focused on the method of critical discourse analysis.
Key words: post-classical methodology, methodology of the law, "quality" methods, concrete legal research.