Keyword: «artistic case»

The relevance of the study is determined by a profound value-normative crisis in youth legal consciousness, manifested in the spread of legal nihilism, vulnerability to manipulative influences, and weakly developed citizenship. At the same time, the digital transformation of the educational environment and the "visual turn" in culture necessitate adapting pedagogical methods to the cognitive preferences of the "digital generation," which predominantly processes information through multimodal formats. Traditional dogmatic approaches to legal education, focused on rote memorization of norms, fail to engage the emotional-value sphere of personality and prove insufficient for developing holistic legal culture as an integrative quality encompassing cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. The aim of the article is the theoretical substantiation and methodological design of an artistic case model as an innovative pedagogical support for fostering legal culture among students. The leading approaches employed are systemic (considering legal culture as an integrated whole), interdisciplinary (synthesizing jurisprudence, pedagogy, art history, and cultural studies within the "Law and Art" paradigm), and competency-based (interpreting legal culture as a transdisciplinary competence). For the first time in Russian pedagogical science, the concept of "artistic case" has been operationalized as a didactic construct that integrates literary text, visual art, and media content into a unified semantic structure focused on a moral-legal dilemma. A three-level structural-functional model has been developed, comprising a core (dialogue of arts based on semantic resonance), a contextual-methodological shell (historical-cultural commentary and a system of problem-based tasks), and a toolkit of pedagogical cues. A universal five-stage analytical algorithm has been proposed–from emotional perception to conscious legal positioning–sequentially developing all components of legal culture. The typology of pedagogical cues for decoding multimodal content has been substantially expanded. Theoretical significance lies in creating a holistic conceptual framework for integrating art into legal education, thereby bridging the gap between humanities and jurisprudence. Practical value is determined by the model's readiness for immediate implementation in the educational process without additional resources, with its reliance on available cultural artifacts, and its adaptability across diverse educational contexts, including legal education within foreign language instruction.