Abstract: The object of this research is the legal policy of the state, while the subject is the principles and objectives in development of the system of priorities and goals of legal policy in the spheres of digital economy of the modern state. The authors analyze the existing approaches towards formulation of the principles of legal regulation of digital economy in the Russian and foreign research, normative legal acts in force; give assessment to their effectiveness in the new socioeconomic conditions of the emerging information society, rapid growth of information and communication technologies, and their impact upon economic relations. Special attention is given to the new system properties of digital economy, which substantiate the need for reconsideration of the traditional political-legal model of market regulations. The authors conduct comparative analysis on the consequences of implementation of traditional approaches towards legal policy in the context of transformation of Russian socioeconomic system, and place emphasis on the need for paradigm shifts in legal regulation. The scientific novelty of this work consists in development of a special group of legal principles that define legal policy in the sphere of digital economy, formulated according to the specificity of digital economic and closely connected other relations currently being formed within the information society. The system of such principles can lay the foundation for changing the approaches towards regulation of wide variety of public relations that enable the country’s rapid economic progress.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of deformation of the legal mentality of officials expressed in the administrative law enforcement policy of Russia. The object of the research is the legal mentality, and the subject of the research is the administrative law enforcement policy reflecting the characteristics of the state of the legal mentality of the Russian law enforcement bureaucracy. The purpose of the research is to examine the phenomenon of deformation of the legal mentality of the law enforcer using the example of a specific rule of law. At the same time, a hypothesis is put forward in the article, tested in the course of the study, according to which the deformations of the legal mentality in law enforcement are caused by spiritual and moral distortions. The methodological basis of the article included general resarch methods (dialectical method, system-structural method, analysis and synthesis) and special research methods: comparative law, formal law, hermeneutical method, axiological, etc. The methodology of the research is based on the analysis of law enforcement activities related to the distortion of the value, logical, semantic and target characteristics of the applicable rule of law under the uncertainty of its official interpretation. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the following: firstly, consideration of a special form of deformation of the legal consciousness of officials based on formally dogmatic legal thinking, and secondly, the originality of the approach to the methodological understanding of the problem of an objective assessment of the distortion of the value characteristics of the legal mentality in law enforcement. In conclusion, the author formulates conclusions containing generalizations of the research, including theses on the relationship between the legal understanding of the law enforcer and the spiritual and moral matrix of his legal conscience, the presence of interrelated causes of legal deformations and the need to improve the policy of generalizing administrative practices, the legal technique of the legislator as the most real and effective means of countering such distortions.