Open AccessDigitalization of the legal profession: on the risks and threats of digitalization of the labor market
Author(s) -
Yana V. Gaivoronskaya,
Yulia Karimova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in law studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2500-428X
pISSN - 2409-5087
DOI - 10.29039/2409-5087-2020-8-5-55-63
Subject(s) - legal profession , jurisprudence , context (archaeology) , skepticism , unemployment , digital transformation , scale (ratio) , political science , law , digital era , engineering ethics , sociology , engineering , economics , computer science , epistemology , economic growth , history , geography , philosophy , cartography , the internet , archaeology , world wide web
The problem of technological unemployment in the context of large-scale digital transformation of society is contemplated. The prospects for digitizing legal profession are emphasized. The authors analyse the digital transformation of jurisprudence in two ways: from the standpoint of possible replacement of human labor with machine labor and from the standpoint of introducing of new digital technologies into legal profession (LegalTech). The prospects of the withering away of the legal profession in the digital age are reckoned up as sceptical ones. The authors conclude that digitalization causes qualitative modification of the legal profession, related to changes in content and forms of organization of professional legal activity.