Historical and Legal Science: trends and prospects (overview and review of the Historical and Legal Yearbook – 2023 of the Association of Legal Historians)

Historical and Legal Yearbook of the Association of Legal Historians for the year 2023 is analyzes. Year-book is a specialized scientific and legal publication, on the pages of which the studies on the fundamental and current legal trends of leading Russian scientists are placed. The second issue of the Historical and Legal Year-book – 2023 traditionally placed on its pages the studies of leading Russian scientists on fundamental and priority areas of development of historical and legal science, as well as related issues. The key objective of the preparation of this collective work was to comprehend historical and legal processes and phenomena at the modern level, to preserve legal heritage and protect historical memory, to develop a concept for the protection of historical truth, as well as to develop, disseminate and popularize reliable scientifically grounded historical and legal scientific knowledge. A special topic of the Historical and Legal Yearbook – 2023 was the manuscript of S.V. Yushkov on “Laws of Tauke Khan (Zheti Zhargy)”. The peer-reviewed edition has become a comfortable platform for accumulation of efforts of scientific, practice-oriented and expert community in the field of histori-cal and legal scientific thought for the benefit of solving modern problems of socio-humanitarian knowledge, where special attention is paid to the reliability of interpretation, elucidation and explanation of past events from the position of law.