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This article is devoted to the problems of law reforms in contemporary Russia. The purpose of the article is to discover their connection with the structure and content of legal education. The purpose is achieved by a comparative analysis of the opposite approaches to law - etatist and anthropological ones. According to them, the law is considered, respectively, to be a derivative of the state or the individual. The article shows that in our legal education and society as a whole the etatist approach to law is dominant and, thus, hinders the process of law reforms. The author comes to a conclusion that the anthropological approach to law has to be the conception of law reform; and, based on it, it is necessary to revise the system of legal education.  Only in this case the law reform in our country may be successful.