Abstract
The presented article investigates the essence and content of the legal culture of modern society based on a review of various domestic and foreign sources and foreign positive experience in the development of legal culture. The purpose of this article is to study topical issues of the content of the phenomenon of legal culture in the context of the development of the entire legal system. When writing a scientific work, various methods of scientific analysis were used: analysis, synthesis, comparative analysis, dialectical approach, search and selection of facts, statistics. During the disclosure of the content of legal culture, data from independent foreign sources on the issues of ensuring the rule of law and the position of our country in the ranking among the countries of the world were presented. The article provides a typology of legal culture on the basis of its specificity and form of implementation, defines the functions of legal culture. The results of the scientific research are due to the fact that the article proposes measures and conditions for the natural development of legal culture, and reveals the problems that impede its development. All practical recommendations and conclusions can be used both in the educational process and in the design of state programs, concepts, normative sources. At the end of the article, it was concluded that the formation of a legal culture is a long and complex process that depends on the level of legal awareness of citizens, legal literacy and the quality of law-making activities.