Practically Transforming Role of Legal Science in the Conditions of Competition of Paradigms of Legal Development

The article examines the transformative impact of legal science on state and legal reality, reveals its multichannel nature, diversity of methods and mechanisms. The legal picture of the world is considered as a key element of its infrastructure. The idea is substantiated that the legal picture of the world as a metaconcept serves as an expression of the integral reflection of legal reality in consciousness and thinking. The importance of the legal picture of the world is emphasized not only for the formation of a legal worldview, but also for the practical construction of reality, since it sets the coordinate system where not only ordinary citizens think and act, but also persons authorized to adopt laws, make judicial decisions, interpret legal norms, as well as scientists who conceptualize empirical material, model reality and its objects. Particular attention is paid to rethinking the role of legal borrowings in the development of the domestic state and law, the nature of their reproduction, its correlation with the legal tradition. The scientific task is formulated, which consists in defining the phenomenology of legal borrowings, the questions of their limits and constitutional means of ensuring, as well as the purification of national law from excessive or destructive borrowings are raised. At the same time, the significant ideological potential of the doctrinal characteristics of legal borrowings is emphasized. The stability of domestic scientific and legal ideas to those legal borrowings that hinder the strengthening of Russia’s sovereignty, equal dialogue of states and civilizations is proven.