DOCTRINAL APPROACHES TO DETERMINING THE STATUS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the legal nature of information technology law, which is at the stage of formation and development. The current state of the science of information technology law is analyzed. Different positions of scientists regarding the definition of the status of information technology law are studied. Special attention is paid to the fact that the law of information technologies is gaining more and more importance in legal science. It is noted that at this stage of its development, it is necessary to carry out a deep analysis and rethinking of conceptual approaches to its status. The article focuses on the transformation of views regarding the legal nature of information technology law. The justification for the introduction into the scientific circulation of a new comprehensive legal discipline – the law of information technologies – is considered. It is emphasized that the law of information technologies is not an artificial phenomenon, but a natural result of the development of economic relations that arise, change and cease in the field of information technologies. Therefore, we should talk about the beginning of its formation and we need to make a lot of effort to develop and establish the law of information technologies as one of the most promising areas of development of modern jurisprudence. An analysis of various approaches to determining the legal nature of information technology law was carried out, namely: as a complex field of law that is only at the stage of formation, as a normative-legal array, as a special part of information law, as a concept. Attention is focused on the fact that the category of information technology law acts as a complex phenomenon that contains norms from various fields of law, but at the same time regulates its own block of social relations. As a result of the research, it was proved that the law of information technology is a branch of a new generation, the structure of which is a wide system of established institutions designed to implement a certain, clearly defined function of the state – building a digital state.