The proceedings published in the collection of the second joint scientific conference of participants of the International Center for Civic Political Science, representatives of the Lviv Youth Historical Center and authors of “The Annals of Legal History” represent the recipes of understanding and interpretation of state formation in a wide geographical context. The focus of young historian authors is Europe – a cultural, civilizational, geopolitical, and political-legal space. Particular attention is paid to the delineation of historical eras and cultural sections, the legal aspects of the emergence and institutionalization of states in the Western world.