Abstract: This article reviews the prerequisites, content and consequences of the impact of global processes on the sovereignty of modern states. The object of this research is the international legal relations and their peculiarities in the current context. The subject is the conditions and forms of restriction of sovereignty of national states, as well as contributing factors. Special attention is given to representations on the “fate” of sovereign rights and variants of their transformation reflected in the scientific literature, as well as change in the vector of development of globalization processes under the influence of strategy of the countries that act in accordance with their sovereign rights and national interests. The main method of “diluting” the state sovereignty are viewed based on the general scientific methods − induction and deduction, analysis, generalization, abstraction, modeling; sectoral methods of studying global processes: political scientific, statistical, formal-legal, specific-historical, and comparative. The research relies on the dialectical approach towards analyzing the concept of state sovereignty. The following conclusions were made: 1) modern world marks to multidirectional trends that testify to the transformation of state sovereignty, narrowing of its separate spheres in the conditions of globalization, or on the other hand, change in the vector of development of the global processes; 2) there is virtually no formal legal equality of the countries set by the leading norms of international law and underlying sovereignty; however, the national states continue demonstrating the resistance to global challenges; at the same time, the most “impregnable” for leveling sovereign rights is not the economy or politics, but cultural-historical values (the sphere of humanities); 3) in the conditions of globalization, the prospect of losing sovereignty depends on the degree of resistance to external challenges demonstrated by a particular state.

Abstract: The object of this research is the processes of transformation of economy influenced by the advancement of digital technologies and its corresponding forms of education system management. The subject of this research is the changes in approach towards education of lawyers in the conditions of the advancement of digital technologies. The authors substantiate the relevance of developing a complex innovative model of education management and retraining of lawyers within digital economy; give brief characteristic to the degree of research of the problem of transformation of the legal education in modern Russia; present factors of transformation of legal practice and legal education in the context of digital economy. A conclusion is made, according to which the current transformation of legal education suggests the following: development of new conceptual and organizational-management approaches towards formation of legal education system; development of forms and vectors of legal education that correspond to the digital reality; update to the content component of legal education. The scientific novelty of the proposed approach towards reform of the legal education within advancement of the digital economy consists in its systematicity, comprehensive character and demonstrativeness, proposing consideration of the experience of legal training in other countries with advanced digital infrastructure, as well as Russian realities.