The paper provides some synergistic attempts to reflect on the conditions for legal culture of young people to be formed as a state of legal consciousness, legality, excellence of legislation and legal practice expressing the status of law as a kind of social value implemented at a pedagogical university. This allows for a framework of legal values reflecting the attitude of Russian citizens to current law, legal practice, human rights, freedoms and obligations. Humanitarian expertise determines the direction of human activity in modern society, clearly denotes the main discourses that drive the cultivation of legal norms, legal ideology, types of legal consciousness based on the degree of common features and content. A quick survey based on generalization and systematization of reflective knowledge that Russian students have about the state of legal culture, their ideas about the rule of law and legality, lawful and unlawful behavior, updated law enforcement acts, etc. leads to some conclusions about the development of certain aspects of social and individual awareness geared towards legislation at large. The survey also identified risks in the training of modern pedagogical personnel -the mainspring of rights, freedom and duties of an individual and updated the norms of legal psychology expressing the attitude of various social groups to law, to the system of legal institutions operating in society. It provided some information on the establishment of a different legal ideology reflecting legal phenomena of public life and on some purposeful activities of state bodies and the public.