Methods of Exercising Legal Personality in the Digital Entrepreneurial Environment

The paper is devoted to the analysis of technological transformations in the sphere of entrepreneurship and their impact on the concept of legal personality. The digital entrepreneurial environment rests upon a complex of social regulators, encompassing instruments of different types, namely: normative-legal, technical, ethical, and self-regulatory. Within the digital environment, the mere recognition of an individual as possessing legal personality in the traditional sense is clearly insufficient without meeting the requirements for access to, and functioning within entrepreneurship environment. The evolution of the category of legal personality under the influence of digitalization of social life is linked to the integration of technological and legal approaches that reflect the dynamic nature of legal personality. The paper highlights that the accumulation of empirical observations on the development of digital technologies and the expansion of their application will lead both to a reconsideration of the classical understanding of legal personality — towards the formation of hybrid personality, or quasi-personality, for certain digital entities — and to an expansion of the range of subjects participating in legal relations. Social regulation, based on the combination of normative-legal regulation, technical standards, and self-regulatory instruments, is transforming the traditional boundaries of what constitutes a subject of law within the modern legal system, thereby generating new forms of legal interaction.

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