Language of modern civil law: official - contractual -colloquial (reflections on the proceedings of the international internet conference)

Purpose: Identifying features and trends of the development of the legal language, specifics of its functioning in the sphere of civil-law relations. Methodology: The authors use formal legal, specific sociological and comparative legal methods. Results: The article presents a review of scientific reports of the International scientific and practical Internet conference «Language of Modern Civil Law: Official - Contractual - Colloquial», which considered the issues of linguistic features of civil contracts, trends in the development of the legal language and legal technique. Most of the reports were devoted to the legal language in general and its specific aspects within the framework of civil law. Many of the papers presented at the conference reflect the issue of conditionality of legal system development and functioning by means of interacting with digital technologies, which is an important factor in the dynamics of the modern legal reality. All studies state the general idea that subjects of legal activities should be not only professionals, but also literate people who are able to use both legal terminology and the common vocabulary of the modern Russian language...