The impact of digitalization on the process of legal activity

Abstract

We consider digitalization as a factor influencing the functioning and development of legal activity, its role in the development of the legal life of Russian society is determined. The development of digitalization in the legal sphere is one of the important conditions for the entry of the Russian Federation into fundamentally new positions in international relations, the assertion of digital sovereignty, which has become very relevant in the light of new challenges and threats to the statehood of Russia. We analyze the opinions of scientists regarding the possibility and extent of the impact of digitalization on legal activity. We evaluate digital technologies from the standpoint of their use in various types of legal activities, primarily in lawmaking and law enforcement, and in general in public administration, which is impossible without the use of digital technologies. The tasks of analyzing the impact of digitalization on the process of carrying out legal activities are to express the author’s position on the role of digitalization in the functioning of the main types of legal activities, to identify problems that arise when using digital technologies in legal activities. We state that digital computer technologies in the legal field should develop in such areas as the automation of typical legal services, the use of online legal services, the “digitization” of public services and their provision online, the transition to a total system of electronic justice, modeling legal decisions based on artificial intelligence, etc. We claim that in the field of legal services, digitalization will ensure their availability and reduce costs, which is achieved by using intelligent automation to perform the actions that a lawyer performs.