The History of legal doctrines is considered to be a scientific and

educational discipline, which takes an important place among the theoretical legal

disciplines in the system of legal science and education in general. The legal ideas and

holistic theories (doctrines, teachings) of the thinker of the past, their maintenance,

origin, evolution, current content, and relations these ideas with public practice. The

purpose of the history of legal doctrines in jurisprudence is determined by the specificity

of its functions, areas of research, theoretical and practical importance for the science

and social practice. The influence of legal doctrines on the development of state

institutions is established. Drawing on his own experience of a teacher and a lawyer, the

author establishes the relevance of the legal theories of thinkers of the past, the risk of

ignoring them, the importance of the history of legal doctrines for both the theory of law

and the practice of law.