Legal Space of Modern Political Life: Digital Law and International Governance

Abstract

The development of new digital technologies has already turned into a revolutionary movement in many social contexts, and it is expected that the trend will intensify. The raised topic is essential for understanding the dynamics of international law and governance and prediction of its future forms. A common proposal in literature is that digital technologies fragment, obscure traditional landscapes and players, unify territorially linked jurisdictions and best efforts by state institutions to monopolize legal designs of political life. It challenges the centrality of territorial jurisdiction within the relevant law and constitutional provisions regulating the search and seizure of digital information. In this paper, I propose unified terms to describe these efforts within the framework of digital constitutionalism and analyzing current initiatives. These initiatives are of great variety, from public statements to official positions of intergovernmental organizations, and proposals for legislation. The essay shows that the digital world opens up new perspectives, and new technologies fragment existing identities, and threaten to legal culture at an ever-increasing pace.