Abstract
The article analyzes the concepts of social conflict and legal conflict, provides a definition of category data, features of the transformation of conflict into a legal process, its objective and subjective sides, and conducts a theoretical and legal analysis of the essence of the conflict. The author’s understanding of the definition of conflict and legal conflict is substantiated. In order to distinguish between these categories when developing theoretical aspects of the study, the scientific works of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of conflictology were studied and analyzed. A legal (legal) conflict should be recognized as any conflict in which the dispute is in one way or another connected with the legal relations of the parties, therefore, the subjects, or the motivation for their behavior, or the object of the conflict have legal characteristics, and the conflict entails legal (legal) ) consequences. Any interstate conflict, including between parties not bound by an agreement, should be considered legal (legal). The fact is that the relations of any state are subject to the norms of international law. All conflicts regulated by law in one way or another are legal by nature.