In the context of rapidly developing digital technologies, the creation of a new digital law, which analog law must give way to, is becoming increasingly important. The following questions: what kind of the new law and its tools should be like; to what extent digital regulators and legal regulators can interact in the digital environment; whether legal norms (traditional legal regulators) are being replaced by software code in the mechanism of social regulation; and the role of so-called universal or general (initial) legal regulators, including the principles of law, –all are the subjects of this article.
analog law, traditional legal regulators, digital regulators, software code, redundancy of legal regulation of the digital environment, gap in positive law, principles of law as a legal basis for resolving a case
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