Digital transformation of legal activities and legislation

Digital transformation of the economy and society includes the digitalization of legal activities and legislation, which indicates the importance and relevance of the topic under consideration. The problem of digital transformation lies in the fact that it is often seen as the use of metaphorically called «digital technologies». Therefore, it is important to understand that digitalization is the next fourth stage of automating people's lives and activities, which should be marked by a transition from the Internet of general distrust to Internet systems that provide acceptable security for remote user interaction (digital environment of trust), based on digital systems, in particular a distributed registry. Purpose: digital transformation cannot occur without appropriate legal (legislative) support, as well as without digitalization of legislation and legal activities (transition to paperless record keeping, document management and archiving), so lawyers must create not only a digital doctrine of law, but also information ontology of the subject area of their activities. Methods: system approach and standard methods of legal analysis are used. Results: it is argued that digitalization is the next fourth stage of automating people's lives and activities. The author defends the point of view that there is no need to introduce the concept of «digital law». The author reviews the experience of digitalization in the United States and China as well as the ways to develop the digitalization of legal activities. It is necessary to create an interdisciplinary information ontology of the subject areas of jurisprudence and legislation for further use in the development of smart systems.