Transformation of legal systems as a fundamental condition for sustainable development

Abstract

The emergence of civilizational challenges to the future of humankind prompted the UN to form plans to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Numerous reasons for the degradation of civilization, which are proposed for consideration by scientists, are very heterogeneous and poorly systematized. This does not contribute to understanding the effectiveness of the world's plans to save civilization. The article substantiates the existence of two groups of root causes of the planetary crisis – the systematic adoption of erroneous decisions and the discrepancy between the traditional economic model and the modern tasks of human development. An analysis is being made of a new paradigm of economic development – the Economy of Result, which is based as much as possible on the application of the achievements of the fourth industrial revolution: technologies of the Internet of things, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, etc. It turns out that the implementation of the provisions of the Results Economy will necessarily require large-scale social and digital transformations. In such conditions, the problem arises of the correspondence of the current state of the legal system to the legislative support for the implementation of social transformations, which should be based on the widespread use of digital technologies. The necessity is substantiated and the essence of the transformation of the system of law is explained in terms of: clarification of the mission and purpose of legal regulation, understanding the phenomenon of “virtuality”, the possibility of recognizing the subjectivity of a robot with artificial intelligence, overcoming the legal singularity, defining the new role of international law, the relevance of the convergence of law and relevance of legal research due to the implementation of a new paradigm of economic development.