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  5. On the Problem of Implementing Legal Norms in the Conditions of Digitalization

Almanac of law. Issue 17 (2026), pages 546–552.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2026-17-546-552

Yushchyk O. O.
On the Problem of Implementing Legal Norms in the Conditions of Digitalization

The article addresses the problem of the realization of legal norms under the conditions of rapid digitalization of social relations, where the exercise of rights is increasingly mediated by information platforms, registers, automated systems, and algorithmic procedures. The purpose of the study is to review contemporary scholarly approaches to understanding use as a form of the realization of legal norms in the digital environment.

It is shown that the shift of a signifi cant part of social practices into the digital sphere leads to the spread of digital procedures in which a programmed service eff ectively determines the conditions of access, the sequence of steps, and possible scenarios of conduct. This requires clarifying which elements of the mechanism for the realization of legal norms are changing, primarily within the form of use: from the accessibility of the procedure to the limits of freedom of choice and procedural guarantees. The realization of legal norms is understood as a process in which normative prescriptions acquire real content when embodied in the actual behavior and activities of subjects regarding the exercise of rights and the fulfi llment of legal duties; traditionally, use, execution, compliance, and application are distinguished. The article emphasizes that use refl ects the dispositive dimension of legal realization: a subject does not «execute» or «comply with» a prescription, but realizes the opportunity provided by a norm through their own will. Under these conditions, digitalization may be slow and uneven (fragmentary digital tools, gaps in access, a digital divide) or overly rapid, when digitizing insuffi ciently refl ected procedures narrows real freedom and reduces the use of a right to passing technically predetermined steps.

The article also highlights the importance of procedural guarantees in interactions with automated decisionmaking, in particular the right to an explanation and the right to human intervention. The conclusions stress that digitalization and automation do not eliminate classical forms of the realization of legal norms. However, they change the conditions of their exercise, especially in relation to use, which calls for a regulatory response and theoretical legal refl ection on how the mechanism and forms of legal realization transform in an informationorganized environment.

Keywords: implementation of legal norms, use of norms, digitalization, digitalization of social relations, automated systems, algorithmic procedures, legal information.

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Дата першого надходження рукопису до видання: 28.02.2026
Дата прийнятого до друку рукопису після рецензування: 09.04.2026
Дата публікації: 30.04.2026

 

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