The article examines professional legal consciousness as an internally differentiated form of the legal community’s collective legal consciousness that is of independent relevance for general theory of state and law. It substantiates the appropriateness of typologising professional legal consciousness on the basis of the intentional orientation of professional legal reasoning determined by the type of legal activity and the configuration of professional roles, and proposes a set of principal types. In order to secure scholarly comparability, the article develops a system of parameters for distinguishing such types, structured into functional, structural, and substantive blocks, which enable analysis of the dominant functions of professional attitudes, the internal correlation between legal ideology and legal psychology, and the conceptual and axiological core of professional legal argumentation. It is argued that the proposed typological model strengthens the explanatory capacity of general legal analysis by elucidating the linkage between positive law, legal order, and legal life, while also contributing to a more rigorous understanding of legal certainty and the predictability of law enforcement.
Sergey Nikolaevich Khrameshin (Fri,) studied this question.
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