Abstract. The relevance of the mentioned issues lies in the analysis of the approaches to the interpretation of legal understanding as a key category of jurisprudence available in the legal doctrine. The nature of professional legal understanding as its separate level (type) is revealed. The peculiarities of the professional legal understanding of practicing lawyers in various legal families of today are outlined.
The relevance of the problem study of legal understanding shall be determined by a combination of ideological, social and political factors, including the urgent need to comprehend legal understanding as the most important regulator of social relations, as well as the need for a critical rethinking of traditional concepts of legal understanding.
The article thoroughly and comprehensively explores the essence, historical and legal aspects of formation, evolution, content and basic elements of the principles of law based on the study of legal theory and legal practice, reveals the importance of law for the formation of legal worldview and implementation of rule-making and rule-making practice.
The article analyzes the scientific work of domestic and foreign scholars on the problems of legal knowledge and understanding of the philosophy of the XX century. The main theoretical and methodological approaches that have emerged as part of modern philosophy to study the problems of legal knowledge and understanding. Defined thematic orientation work, their characteristics and features, singled out the overall trends research. Exposed the most topical at the present stage of science methods of studying the abovementioned issues.
The article analyzes the scientific work of domestic and foreign scholars on the problems of legal knowledge and understanding of the philosophy of the XX century. The main theoretical and methodological approaches that have emerged as part of modern philosophy to study the problems of legal knowledge and understanding. Defined thematic orientation work, their characteristics and features, singled out the overall trends research. Exposed the most topical at the present stage of science methods of studying the abovementioned issues.