Impact of Digital Technologies on Legal Theory and Practice
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The rapid diffusion of digital technologies—including artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain, and digital platforms—has fundamentally reshaped both legal theory and legal practice, challenging long-established doctrines, institutional structures, and modes of legal reasoning. While these technologies have enhanced efficiency, access to justice, and data-driven decision-making within courts, regulatory bodies, and legal services, they have simultaneously introduced profound normative, ethical, and accountability challenges. This study provides an integrated examination of how digital technologies transform legal systems at structural, theoretical, and practical levels. Drawing on comparative regulatory perspectives and empirical case studies from multiple jurisdictions, the paper analyzes the reconfiguration of legal reasoning under algorithmic governance, the tension between computational logic and human interpretation, and the evolving role of legal professionals in increasingly automated environments. Particular attention is devoted to issues of algorithmic bias, transparency, accountability, and access to justice, highlighting the risks of discrimination and democratic erosion alongside the promise of innovation. The analysis demonstrates that sustainable digital transformation in law requires hybrid decision-making models, adaptive regulatory frameworks, and interdisciplinary collaboration that reconcile technological efficiency with normative legitimacy and fundamental rights protection.
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