"Concept without realization" or "reform without a concept" (modification with clear, but not articulated or falsely articulated aims) - that is the current state of a Concept of a legal and judicial reform adopted by a Decision of Supreme council of the Republic of Belarus on April 23, 1992. Situational dominance in the modern Belarusian legislation, fluctuation of legislation outsides the frames of a conceptually defined approach is close to causing a destructive effect on the national legislative school, to level out functions of an academic society. Our opinion is that such conditions should raise level of responsibility of researchers on the quality of product of intellectual activities in the sphere of law. Comparative jurisprudence, integration on national research and strategies, knowledge and level of representation of a national school in the modern legal discourse these are a question and an answer altogether.

Reform lab section has been originally designed as a platform for gathering and unifying materials that we ourselves work on at the moment, something like internal communication that defines topics, approaches, language, etc., discussions within the sphere of our professional interests.
As time passed, we have felt a necessity to make this section open and accessible for the users of our site as well. Perhaps, apart from other things, it will help us discover or create an open professional discussion space and will promote national research on the questions we suggest for discussion:

• Experience of legal and judicial reform in the countries of transition period;
• System of legal aid, free legal assistance;
• Reform of legal education.

To a greater extend, materials that are gathered within this section are links to analytical and practical materials of the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), other international institutions, as well as separate publications on the topics mentioned above.
The section also includes materials that generalize legal and judicial reform experience of the neighboring countries (Russian Federation, Poland, Lithuania and others) as well as materials on development of reform valuation methods and level of its influence.
European acts on free legal aid, legislation drafts, concepts of different countries on reforming the system of free legal aid are also represented in the section.

We suppose that the content of the present section will be helpful to law students, teachers of law, postgraduate students, law-makers, human right defenders, civic activists, state employees, all other interested parties.