CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO CURITIBA - UNICURITIBA - VOLUME 2 - NÚMERO 31/2021 - CURITIBA/PARANÁ/BRASIL - PÁGINAS 204 A 2020 - ISSN: 2316-2880 ANO Revista Relações Internacionais do Mundo Atual Unicuritiba. [Received/Recebido: Maio 05, 2021; Accepted/Aceito Junho 26, 2021] Este obra está licenciado com uma Licença Creative Commons Atribuição-NãoComercial 4.0 Internacional. INTERPRETATION OF THE VALUE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN FORMS OF LEGAL UNDERSTANDING MARYNA A. PANFOROVA Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law National Transport University 01010, 1 M Omelianovycha-Pavlenka Str., Kyiv, Ukraine/ Str., Lviv, Ukraine. ОLEKSANDRA YE. PROTS Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University Department of Law, Sociology and Political Science Faculty of History/ Str., Lviv, Ukraine. VIRA O. KACHUR Department of Theory and History of State and Law Faculty of Law National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine 03040, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine. KHRYSTYNA M. MORIAK-PROTOPOPOVA Department of History of the State Law and Political Law Teachings Faculty of Law Ivan Franko National University of Lviv 79000, 1 Universytetska Str., Lviv, Ukraine. LIUDMYLA S. PROTOSAVITSKA Department of Theory and History of State and Law Faculty of Law National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine 03040, 17 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine ABSTRACT A long-term discussion about legal understanding has identified some main approaches to defining its concept, in particular among them: natural law and positive law. In this context, the question of the value of human rights in the context of these types of legal understanding is fundamental to legal science. Considering the above, inter alia, it is also important to find out whether human rights are natural or whether they require formal recognition and consolidation, being positive. The aim of the study is to consider the main features of the interpretation of the value of human rights in the context of natural and positive types of legal understanding, as well as to compare them. Consideration of the subject of research was carried out within the framework of an integrated approach, which involves a combination of such special methods as structural-functional, comparative- legal and formal-legal analysis methods. The article examines the two most popular types of legal understanding, in particular, natural law and legal positivism. According to positive law, human rights should be enshrined in laws, regulations and sources of legal norms. It should be noted that in the modern world, law, which includes human rights, is understood as a system of legal norms that are issued and protected by the state, which to a greater extent reflects a positive legal understanding. The essence of the theory of natural law is that in addition to positive law, which is created by the state, there is a common natural law for all people, standing above positive law. That is why natural law is realized in