The article examines the legal and institutional implications of implementing the two-cycle model of higher education in the training of legal professionals in the Russian Federation. It analyses the risks associated with weakened legal certainty in quality criteria for legal education, as well as the consequences of regulatory fragmentation when external educational benchmarks are adopted without adequate domestic implementation. The study substantiates the role of фундаментальная теоретико-правовая подготовка fundamental theoretical and legal training as a prerequisite for consistent law enforcement and устойчивое профессиональное правовое мышление stable professional legal reasoning. The article concludes that state priorities in legal education must be aligned with legality, predictability, and public accountability for educational outcomes.
A. A. Nikitenko (Thu,) studied this question.