Digital Technologies in Law-making Activity: Theoretical and Legal Aspect

Abstract

The article is devoted to the introduction of digital technologies in law-making activities. The process of digitalization has actively affected economic relations, which has led to the transformation of public administration. Law, being the main regulator of public relations, is also undergoing significant changes. The subject of the study is the results of the digitalization of law-making activities, which leave an imprint on the entire system of state and legal relations. The article presents a bibliographic review of modern works on this issue, describes the main trends in this area, and assesses the practical results of the digital technologies impact on law-making. The models of digitalization are analyzed: automation of all processes, which assumes the absolute exclusion of a person and the preservation of human participation at the stage of making the final decision. The author investigates the main stages of law-making activity, where the use of digital technologies is possible: the formation of law-making initiatives; the process of preparing a normative legal act; discussion of the draft normative legal act; the voting process; the process of promulgation and publication. The author provides the examples of specific electronic platforms: «Russian Public Initiative», the System for Ensuring Legislative Activity, Simplex+, Reaching everyone for active citizenship & home (REACH) and specific technologies (ML-model, LL-model, blockchain), both already used and developed in Russia and abroad. It is indicated that digital technologies can be used to systematize regulatory legal acts, and the question of using digital technologies in predicting the future directions of legal regulation is raised. It is concluded that it is necessary to determine the main directions and principles of digitalization of law-making, the goals and limits of the introduction of digital technologies in the law-making process.