Digital Technologies, Social Processes, Modernization of Law and Possible Future of Russian Legal Education

Abstract

The article deals with a number of problems associated with the transition to a new technological order has acquired the name of the 4th technological revolution in modern literature. The author focuses on changes that are take place in the organization of production and exchange of values. An attempt is made to forecast the development of the modern Russian society in the most important areas: economic, social, and spiritual. The author highlights the role of digital technologies in the modernization of the system of social regulation. There is a peculiar tendency of “technologization” of law, its transformation in the conditions of development of modern technologies. It is necessary to revise the recently established approaches to legal education. It is stated that rapid quantitative and qualitative changes that characterize the modern era, require a reorientation of education, which should be aimed at the extraction and assimilation of new knowledge that can be secured on the ground of a firm academic basis.