Legal Engineering in Support of Scientific and Technological Development, Project and Process Management in Organizations

The paper substantiates the concept of legal engineering as an interdisciplinary methodology aimed at integrating legal mechanisms into the processes of scientific and technological development. The authors analyze the problems of a weak regulatory framework, fragmented legislation and insufficient legal competence in the field of innovation development, which hinders Russia’s technological leadership. The following types and subtypes of legal engineering are identified and characterized: 1) sci-tech legal engineering (legal engineering in strategic management); 2) applied legal engineering: 2.1) legal engineering in project management; 2.2) legal engineering in process management (LegalOps/LegalEngeneer): LegalTech, intellectual property management, personal data management, etc. Emphasis is placed on universities’ and corporations’ roles in building new legal infrastructure and training specialists at the law-engineering-innovation nexus. Under a new lawyer competency framework developed at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) it is possible to say that a specialist in legal engineering in strategic management is a lawyer-strategist, a lawyer-norm creator; a specialist in legal engineering in project management is a lawyer-partner; a specialist in legal engineering in process management is a lawyer-technologist, LegalEngineer, LegalOps-manager.