Legal support: universal level systematization experience

We present the results of a legal study which devote to the identification of provisions regulating legal assistance in the international law norms. Based on the variability associated with some political and legal trends, we identify and characterize three groups of international treaties on legal assistance, to which the Russian Federation is a party (multidimensional, sectoral and special-military). It is emphasized that, in addition to the designated classification, it is necessary to point to international agreements on legal assistance, divided depending on the subject of their conclusion: between sovereign states; between sovereign states law enforcement agencies; between other authorities of sovereign states. We reveal the international treaties specialization tendency on legal assistance in relation to situationally relevant international relations, which form the basis of the subject of regulation. The conclusion is made about a certain typicity of international acts on legal assistance, based on their construction of the content and compositional aspect. We come to the conclusion that the category “assistance” is very popular at the international level, which confirms the relevance of the stated research topic. Moreover, at the international level, the key subject of regulation is legal assistance and its subspecies differentiation is carried out in the future.