Legal knowledge as a means of legal self-help: concept, content, meaning

Legal statehood and a developed civil society presuppose not only the formulation of relevant ideas at the doctrinal and normative levels, but also their implementation in everyday life. Ideas are realized only if necessary and effective systems are created in the minds of citizens and their associations that allow everyone to fully ensure and protect their legal rights, interests and responsibilities. If they are available, the citizen not only possesses information about the above-mentioned legal status, but also fully implements the element, there are own legal goals. The article is devoted to the analysis of legal knowledge as a means of legal self-protection. The purpose of the research is to characterize legal knowledge as a part of information, determine its structure, use theoretical and practical legal knowledge in the context of the problems of assessing and increasing the level of legal literacy of Russians. Results. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that legal knowledge is an element of the mechanism of social and legal interaction. They are the foundation of legal self-help, an important and primary tool. The author draws attention to the fact that high-quality legal knowledge is formed, first of all, in the course of legal training. They can be of a purely theoretical or applied nature, they are divided into general (basic) and special (industry-specific). The main place in the system of legal knowledge is given to the knowledge of constitutional norms and the test of the Constitution itself. The emphasis is made on the need to adjust the forms of legal education to increase the level of legal literacy of Russians, their human rights activity, which is especially important in the context of digitalization of law.

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