Digitalization and law: current state and prospects of mutual influence

The purpose of the presented research is to analyze the current state and prospects for the mutual influence of digitalization and law. The author of the article considers law as a «guide» of digital technologies in two areas, namely public administration and economy, which predetermined the research objectives: to examine the relationship between digitalization, law and public administration and to characterize the interaction between digitalization, law and economics. The author emphasizes that modern technologies create new conditions and factors for the emergence and termination of social relations and reflect in new phenomena of our time. According to the author, the ongoing challenges and emerging requirements and demands affect the legal environment, and digital processes are turning in legal forms and getting enshrined in law. The presented research concludes that the law provides public policy on the development of digital technologies and informatization in public administration and the economy. It is also noted that the law in the conditions of digitalization ensures the development and implementation of the ideas of the «service» and «digital» government, that combine the external and internal spheres of public administration, which is reflected in special by-laws like strategies, priority programs, concepts and some federal laws. Digitalization creates new forms and means for acquiring, changing and terminating the subjective rights and legal obligations of participants of the civil life, where the law retains its regulatory and protective functions, but transforming their content. In conclusion, it is noted that the processes of mutual influence of law and digitalization have not only practical but also theoretical significance.

digitalization, legal functions, government functions, public administration, economic system