The presented paper is devoted to very important for Russian society and its statelegal work on a wide range of educational reform. In particular, attention is paid to the university charter of 1884 year. This article investigates the reasons for it. Attention also paid to staff training. Comprehensive study of the Charter contents. This document makes corrections in legal education. Firstly, departments of history foreign laws and history Slavic laws were removed. Although, the number departments faculties of law was increased. There are departments of Roman right, police (administrative) right, financial right, international right, criminal right, church law, civil right, civil process, political economy and statistic. In this article points of view of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and contemporary researchers and social and state personalities are presented on educational counter-reform, for example, Pobedonoszev K.P., Myravjev N.V., Vitte S.U., Katkov M.N., Yablokov S.A, Skripilev E.A., Kodan S.V., Illerickaya N.V.. In the end of the artivle author made the analysis of the University's Charter of 1884 year.