Legal Reform in the Axiological Dimension

The paper examines the objectives, content, and significance of legal reform from an axiological perspective. Utilizing the communicative methodology, it investigates legal ideology as the value foundation of legal reform. Particular empha sis is placed on analyzing the content and role of the legal archetypes of etatism and conciliarity in the ongoing legal reform in Russia. This analysis leads to the conclusion that legal reform constitutes a complex of radical changes (transformations) in the legal reality, undertaken with the aim of constructing a highly effective mechanism for maintaining conflict-free coexistence within a specific society. Legal reform accumu lates and articulates the conventional values of society and determines the intentionality of legal development. Legal reform is directed not only toward partial modifications of specific issues within the legal system and the transformation of legal regulation in response to changing societal relations, but it is also intended to construct a fundamentally new legal reality. This elevates the significance of legal ideology as a value-based foundation for reform. On the one hand, ideology shapes the trajectory of legal development and influences the consciousness and behavior of citizens, thereby determining the effective functioning of both society and the state. On the other hand, legal ideology can be viewed as a conventional outcome of the value reflection on legal development from previous epochs, serving to explicate a unified system of spiritual-moral and cultural-historical values within the legal reality.