Abstract: The legal education of college students should focus on cultivating the legal consciousness, improving the legal thinking ability and strengthening the legal belief. At present, there are some problems in legal education, such as knowledgeable education content, object-oriented education subject and formalized education implementation, which are not conducive to the improvement of legal literacy of college students. Colleges and universities should reshape the value of legal education from the three dimensions of individual value, target value and social value, gradually set up legal education courses independently, take "cooperative learning between teachers and students" as the educational concept, carry out "life education" mode, and strengthen the construction of teaching staff, so as to improve the effectiveness of legal education for college students.