On June 23, 2020, the Department of Theory and History of State and Law organized coworking for the first-year students on the topic “Legal Science in the context of civil society formation” with the participation of SASP members, masters and graduate students of the Faculty of Law.

During the meeting, Ivan Borodin, Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, stressed that legal science was a sphere of intellectual activity of society, the main task of which is to objectively reflect reality in order to use new knowledge to form a new paradigm of legal regulation of social relations according to legal practice requirement.

Bohdan Kokhan, a postgraduate and graduate of the Faculty of Law, revealed basic functions of legal science in the context of the formation of civil society, focused on clarifying the basic functions of legal science such as heuristic, methodological, cognitive, descriptive and practical.

Victoria Kyrychenko, Head of the SASP the Faculty of Law, emphasized the role of student science in the formation of civil society, focused the audience on the main scientific events attended by SASP participants, and invited first-year students to participate. Future lawyers actively participated in the discussion, expressing their own vision of the importance of the role of legal science in the context of the formation of civil society.

In summing up the results of coworking, it was determined that legal science was a process of intellectual, research activity of legal scholars, aimed at the formation of new knowledge of the legal regulation of social relations. The modern period of legal science development in the conditions of the civil society formation provides the necessity of legal science and practice combination with future lawyers’ active participation in scientific research.