Legal science through the eyes of young researchers: reflections on student science (based on the results of the Fifth All-Russian Scientific Conference of Cadets, Students, Adjuncts, Post-Graduate Students and Applicants “Current issues of legal sci

A brief overview of the Fifth All-Russian Scientific Conference of Cadets, Students, Adjuncts, Postgraduate Students and Applicants “Current issues of legal science through the eyes of young researchers”, held at the Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Ryazan on February 6, 2025, is presented. The main directions of the conference are considered and its goals are noted. Statistical indicators characterizing the dy-namics of the conference’s development over five years, starting in 2021, are presented. Such trends in the de-velopment of this scientific and representative event as a constant increase in the number of conference partici-pants; expansion of the geography and number of educational organizations represented; annual increase in the volume of collections of scientific papers published following the results of the conference edited by Vera A. Ilyukhina are highlighted. Some of the author’s reflections on student science, formulated following the results of the conference, are presented.