Foreign Dissertations on Digital Law: Statistical and literature review.

Abstract

Modern domestic dissertations in law are often criticized for insufficient reliance on previous research. Society’s demand for the study of digital aspects of law, the frequent use of the comparative legal method, and, to a certain extent, the current limited access to foreign sources, necessitate a review of foreign dissertations on digital law. We chose to use qualitative and quantitative methods to select the dissertations examined in this study. Firstly, we selected dissertations defended at universities from the QS World University Ranking. Then, we refined our search by using accessible national and university research repositories. Based on comparative legal and statistical methods, we consolidated the dissertations into a single list and divided them according to different criteria. While doing this, we also defined the main trends in preparing Ph.D. dissertations on digital law. The main results of our study include a subject-thematic index of Ph.D. dissertations in the field of digital law, which is designed to facilitate searches for relevant sources, help researchers determine topics for study, and outline the main aspects of the study of digital issues from the standpoint of various branches of law.