The legal regulation of digitalization of some areas of public life in modern theory of state and law

The article discusses the changes in public life associated with digitalization. The article also analyzes the introduction of digital technologies in the transport system of regulation and control of traffic as the progressive direction that allows to answer both socio-economic challenges and national security challenges. The study is based on the study of the experience of using intelligent systems in Russia and abroad, the prospects of further development and improvement of transport infrastructure are considered. The concept of digital law is given, its main features are highlighted. Discussions about the robot implementation in the field of jurisprudence, options for legal regulation of the status of machines with artificial intelligence, as well as the distribution of unmanned vehicles are outlined. The prospects and problems of these processes are analyzed. It is concluded that digitalization will have the constant tendency to increase

The Position of the Artificial Intelligence Among the Elements of the Legal Relationship

The development of artificial intelligence necessitates the legal regulation of social relations associated with the use of new technologies. Today, fragmented regulatory regulation is noted in Russian law, expressed, as the rule, in strategic documents in which artificial intelligence technologies are reflected as cross-cutting technologies that contribute to the development of the digital economy. The purpose of this work is to determine the place of artificial intelligence among the elements of legal relations, which is seen as necessary for building the model of legal regulation of artificial intelligence. The research methodology is based on the set of methods of scientific knowledge, including abstract logical, formal legal and the method of correlation analysis. The article analyzes approaches to determining the place of artificial intelligence in the structure of legal relations. The scientific discussion is that some authors attribute artificial intelligence to the variety of objects of legal regulation; other authors admit that it is possible to consider artificial intelligence as the specific subject of law. As the result of research, the authors come to the conclusion that today artificial intelligence should be classified as the type of objects of legal regulation. In conclusion, the work also evaluates the possibilities and measures of the participation of artificial intelligence in legal activities. The authors come to the conclusion that today the cognitive potential of artificial intelligence has not yet reached the level of development that allowed it to repeat the thought processes of the lawyer in resolving the legal dispute. At the same time, artificial intelligence has tremendous potential to become the irreplaceable technological “assistant” for the lawyer, contributing to the improvement of the quality and efficiency of legal services

Computer Games vs Law: Virtualization and Transformation of Political and Legal Institutions

The paper provides an analysis of virtual reality as a subject of regulation while underlining the similarity of principles in gaming and regulatory activities as the elements of virtual reality. A deeper insight into the relationships between regulatory and gaming activities allows to make a statement that gaming provides a tool for situational analysis to identify the most rational action among the available alternatives thus offering a way to construct a legal reality. Assuming that people will make decisions by weighing costs and benefits to maximize the “utility”, and will interact with others by balancing preferences and constraints, the immersion into the gaming environment and observation of the process of rational decision-making will allow to construct predictive and explanatory models for pubic authorities to organize a relatively efficient law-making process. Moreover, the reciprocal influence of the gaming and legal environment has been persistently ignored by the law enforcement practices, only to result in legal gaps. A careful and comprehensive study of gaming as a legal phenomenon is thus a prerequisite of balanced and adequate lawmaking as well as enforcement. Therefore, this study purports to examine the points of contact between the gaming and the legal reality, and assess the existing legal gaps and prospects of creating and eventually applying “virtual” law. The methodology of the study includes general philosophic and scholar methods (analysis, synthesis, logical and systemic methods), specific research and legal methods (including formal legal analysis). The authors propose to make a definition of virtual law and to identify the levels of virtual environment. In analyzing the virtual environment, the authors conclude that it needs to be viewed through the lens of legal regulation since the virtual nature of computer games gives rise to socially important and potentially controversial interactions between players, platforms and developers that need to be mediated. The authors finally conclude that superficial and skeptical attitude of jurisprudence towards the gaming industry is unacceptable while regulatory problems have to be addressed both in science and law. Internationally, the legal systems are already developing a set of provisions — virtual law, Internet law — designed to regulate socially important aspects of computer game