The fourth edition of the textbook includes a number of new issues that have not yet been considered in the course “Theory of State and Law”, but have recently acquired significant relevance. The study of these issues will help students in the formation of legal thinking, a creative approach to acquiring legal knowledge, independence in judgments and assessments of state legal reality. The textbook fully complies with the State educational standard, the program of the discipline “Theory of State and Law” for law schools. Topics are presented in a sequence that has proven its expediency in the educational process and focuses on the effective mastery of fundamental concepts, categories and legal structures. For students of all forms of study at law universities, students of other legal educational institutions, teachers and graduate students.