1． Educational function. Carrying out legal education for college students means cultivating their legal awareness, mainly through imparting necessary basic legal knowledge, so that college students can fully understand the importance, necessity, arduousness and importance of governing the country according to law, building a socialist country under the rule of law, and strengthening the construction of democracy and the legal system. Long term. Students should be allowed to master the basic viewpoints of Marxist law, understand and understand the legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, master the main spirit and content of our country's constitution and basic laws, enhance legal concepts and social responsibility, correctly exercise rights and perform obligations, and actively Study the law, strictly abide by the law, take the initiative to use the law, and consciously protect the law. The educational function of college students' legal awareness is mainly reflected in improving college students' legal awareness, so that they can turn raising legal awareness from a free behavior to a conscious behavior, thereby realizing the importance of law in modern society and treating law as a daily life part of it, and ultimately achieve the purpose of carrying out legal education for college students.

2. Guidance function. We are establishing a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics that is compatible with the socialist market economic system. This is a very arduous task. Because before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the foundation of the socialist legal system was quite poor. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially since the reform and opening up, although we have accelerated the pace of building the socialist legal system, we still have not been able to adapt to the requirements of the development of the times. Many of the laws and regulations we enacted in the past are no longer adapted to the evolving objective material living conditions. Especially under the special historical conditions of establishing a socialist market economic system, we must speed up the construction of the socialist legal system, especially speed up legislation and strengthen law enforcement ( Including the judiciary) is even more urgent. The prerequisite for legislation is the need for objective conditions. In addition to the level of productivity development, the objective conditions here also include the current status of the public's legal awareness. Laws are formulated to regulate people's behavior and regulate social relationships among people. If people's legal awareness is at a low level, the law will not be well implemented, even during the implementation process. , which will also increase the implementation cost of the law. The level of legal awareness of college students is closely related to the implementation of the law. If college students can have a higher level of legal awareness, this will undoubtedly have a great promotion effect on the implementation of the law, which will in turn drive and promote the public's awareness of the implementation of the law. support. From this perspective, college students’ legal awareness has a guiding function. This orientation is relative to the public.

3. Evaluation function. The implementation of the law includes two aspects: compliance with the law and application of the law. As far as compliance with the law is concerned, the function of legal awareness mainly refers to the fact that the public regards the law as an integral part of their lives, consciously acts in accordance with the law, and consciously maintains the dignity of the law. As far as the application of the law is concerned, the function of legal awareness is mainly reflected in the legal supervision of the judicial activities of specialized agencies to ensure that the law is effectively, fairly, and timely implemented. Here, what is mainly reflected is the evaluation function, that is, making value judgments on the rightness and wrongness of behavior, whether the law is fair, and whether the implementation of the law is effective, thus affecting the process of legal system construction. Of course, because college students lack the ability to judge and distinguish complex things, when they make value judgments, they will inevitably make wrong judgments, which will affect the evaluation function of college students' legal consciousness.

4. Standard functions. The purpose of the ruling class in enacting laws is to regulate people's behavior with a special code of conduct such as law, and to use the law to adjust behavioral norms such as customs, morals, and policies, and to use the law to adjust social relations between people who cannot or do not adjust well. The realization of this purpose of law must not only rely on the coercive power of the state, but also rely on the general improvement of public legal awareness. Because state coercive force is only an external force, while legal consciousness is the internal driving force to achieve legal purposes. According to the universal principles of Marxism, internal factors are factors that play a decisive role in the development of things. The construction of modern legal consciousness among contemporary college students can enable them to consciously regulate their words and deeds in accordance with the will of the people embodied in the law.