The reader is offered a series of articles on the issues arising in achieving conventionality (consent) in judicial and legal science. Through the prism of modern criminal proceedings and the levels of conventionality in legal understanding, the aim is to illuminate the basic parameters of the evolution of the open system of judicial and legal reforms in Russia (the 16th to the 21st century), and to study their goals, objectives, methods of implementation, and results. In article No. 1, the author dwells in detail on the specifics of criminal and criminal procedural law in forms from “written” to “case” and, finally, “transcendental”.