Review of the International Scientific Conference “Alexander Nevsky and the ways of Russian identity” dedicated to the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky is given. The conference considered the most significant problems of the development of the state and law in the conditions of the modern world order, current trends in improving the political systems of modern states, prospects for strengthening mutual understanding between states and peoples of various civilizations, and also discussed the role of the individual in modern transformations of the state and law, historical features and the modern role of spiritual and moral values of the Russian nation and other peoples, moral causes of constitutional and legal problems of modern society, actual problems of transformation of the civilizational basis of constitutionalism in the context of globalization