PROSPECTIVE DIRECTIONS OF LAW-MAKING IN THE SPHERE OF JUSTICE: DOCTRINAL FOUNDATIONS, CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The article analyzes the key directions of reforming the justice system in the Russian Federation, viewed as a comprehensive transformation affecting the fundamental basis of legal regulation, citizens’ constitutional rights, and the technological paradigms of public administration. It explores the dialectical tension between the state’s administrative drive for modernization and centralization and the need to protect the autonomy of legal institutions and individual rights. A doctrinal and comparative legal analysis of reforms in the legal profession, notaries, and the digitalization of justice is provided. The objectives include: identifying the constitutional and legal risks of the concept of lawyers’ monopoly on legal representation; examining notary reform through the prism of public law theory; critically analyzing the ideology of client-centricity and the transition to a registry-based model of public administration; and assessing the ethical and legal challenges associated with the introduction of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings. Digital transformation fundamentally alters the nature of legal fact and creates new challenges to the principles of legal certainty and the right to a fair trial.

justice reform, advocate monopoly, professionalization of judicial representation, constitutional risks, notariat reform, public-law function, digital transformation, e-justice, registry model, artificial intelligence in law, client-centricity