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The paper provides a theoretical justification of ESG standards as a potential modification of the principles of law in establishing and running a socially responsible business. The framework of traditional discussions about the degree of state participation in the economy, as well as about the state as a subject of private law relations, can be expanded by posing a general theoretical question of practical implementation about what the boundaries and limits of interaction and mutual influence of legal and other social regulators are and how useful the cumulative effect of their regulatory impact for sustainable development is. These boundaries and limits constitute today a universally recognized prospect for the humanity. Being the principles of sustainable development in relation to the creation and conduct of business, ESG standards have the quality of social normativity, but currently they are at a stage of functioning when a uniform understanding of key terminology has not yet been achieved, which leads to different approaches to the formation and regulation of this area. The paper analyzes the concept of ESG standards, as well as their components in the aspect of comparison with the principles of law. The points of contact between ESG standards and private law principles take place due to their common nature as basic ideological prescriptions. It is shown that stability, system-forming character and functionality, being parameters of ESG standards, are extremely close to the principles of private law, they are consistent with them, which makes it possible to effectively combine various methods of normativer regulation of entrepreneurial activity that meets modern needs and expectations of society. This task is especially relevant for Russia, given the high regulatory burden on business, as well as negative stereotypes of mass consciousness in the perception of entrepreneurship as such.

The objective of the research is the analysis of the problem of higher legal education in the context of uncertainty of the modern social and cultural space, processes of the widespread standardization of the educational environment, development of the strictly informational and cognitive and formatted thinking. The methodological base of the research is the universal, general scientific and specific scientific cognitive methods used by the legal science in the object-subject scope of cognition of the general theory of law. Besides, some synthetic, integrative methods of research are used that are part of the methodology of interdisciplinarity, actual for the modern socio-humanistic science. The result of the research is the grounded author’s legal position of the advisability of the personal self-development of a student as well as a teacher without whom the obtaining of the qualitative higher legal education seems problematic and also the performing of the professional legal activity in the moral legal direction. The authors also prove that the formation and development of the modern legal consciousness and legal culture of the lawyer shall be based upon the universal and generally accepted ideas of the significance of personal rights and freedoms, postulated during the course of education as well as by the personal development. The novelty of the paper is this problem statement that was not expressed before by the scientists as the subject of research.