Administrative litigation and the data economy

This article examines the digitalization of justice, particularly administrative litigation. The Russian judicial system has successfully overcome barriers of an automation and an informatization. We are now witnessing the justice entering a new era of digital transformation, and at the outset, it is important to understand the meaning of this process and anticipate long-term progress. Litigation is increasingly immersed in a digital environment. This article aims to abstractly substantiate certain characteristics of the digital transformation of the Russian justice, particularly administrative litigation as a form of administration of justice that is most closely linked to the new national project "Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State," launched in 2025. An interdisciplinary methodological approach, drawing on knowledge from the information and economic sciences pertaining to the category and phenomenon of digital data, is used to illuminate the content, conditions, and prospects of the digital transformation of justice and to create a theoretical and methodological basis for a dogmatic analysis of legal subject matter and a systemic analysis of legal phenomena and processes. This interdisciplinary approach to digital transformation highlights a key feature of this process such as the widespread abandonment of documents (in any form) in favor of digital data registered and identified in authorized databases (information systems). Direct access by the court to digital data by its identifiers and data processing using digital technologies will change the evidence process and the nature of legal proceedings. Evidence requirements such as admissibility and reliability will become irrelevant. The issuance of a judicial decision will be transformed into the creation of digital judicial data. Algorithmic resolution of a number of case categories will allow for the automation of law enforcement activities and the transfer of such cases to public administration bodies.