The Russian Legal System in the Conditions of Digitization

Abstract

The article studies the problems of determining the phenomenon of digitization as a modern global trend of social development on the basis of transforming information into the digital form and using the most perfect technologies that transform reality in all its multiple manifestations. The main purpose of the research is to determine the main directions of digitization of the modern law and to study the methodological aspects of digitization’s influence on effectiveness of legal regulation and improvement of the Russian legal system.

The authors perform the theoretical and methodological analysis of the processes of digitization of legal reality and determine the main conceptual approaches to understanding the forms of influence of the modern technologies on various spheres of social life that are subject to legal regulation. The authors use the modern methods of cognition of processes that do not have analogs in the previous periods of development of society, which allowed for establishment of a new digital reality, within which law is the main tool of socio-economic development and the sphere of state management. The authors also analyze the process of establishment and development of digital rights of human, provision of public safety, effective mechanism of protection of person, and right of usage of new information technologies.

The authors note that emergence of a new digital paradigm of global development dictates the necessity for forecasting of the future development, determining the dynamics of the changes within the legal field, studying the transformation of the existing norms for provision of digital processes, and modernization of law-making and law enforcement.

The authors pay special attention to preservation of the spiritual and moral foundations of law and its systemic and regulating role in the life of society. In the processes of digitization of the Russian legal system, there’s a necessity for accounting of accumulated achievements in the sphere of law and combining past experience and modern achievements for minimizing the possible threats and risks of modern digitization. Such digital system can become a foundation for formation of the most rational strategic decisions at all levels of social life.