Problems of understanding digital law and the digital state in modern legal literature
The understanding of the state and law in their traditional shape has already been formed over several centuries, thanks to various theories of origin, already well-established features of the state and the existing legal systems of various states. Legal science knows how the state originally arose, all stages of development, changes in the social order and political systems. With the advent of the information and telecommunications network Internet, which is an integral part of the globalization process, a new unexplored area of legal regulation for legal science has opened up - virtual space (cyberspace). The work considers the Internet as an indefinite area with its own internal local sources of law and order (communities, corporations, users, Internet resources), with unlimited space and technical independence from the real world, which forms such phenomena as a digital state and respectively, digital law. It is substantiated that the information and telecommunication network Internet acts as a space for the existence of digital state and digital law. It is determined that digital state is a new type of political and legal structure of society, as well as digital law is a new legal order in a digital state. Possible grounds for the emergence of a digital state, the predecessor of which may be a post-industrial (information) society, are considered. Thus, the work is aimed at studying digital state and digital law as phenomena of a new reality from the point of view of the science of jurisprudence.