Digital contract in the civil legal system

Аннотация

In the context of the digitalization of various spheres of human life, the digitalization of civil legal contracts occupies a special place. The monograph researches the current state and the main problems of the implementation and application of digital contracts. The author, in addition to the theoretical justification of the existence in business practice of a new form of contract, also considers the actual application of such form in classical contractual constructions, as well as in an exclusively digital environment. Special attention is paid to the special type of digital contracts - smart-contracts, as well as the newest objects of civil turnover - cryptocurrencies. Theoretical significance of the study lies in the substantiation of the legal essence of a separate digital form of contract, as well as in the development of basic approaches to the issues of civil law regulation of contracts concluded in digital form. The conclusions of the study contain a substantiation of the theoretical foundations of the institution of digital contract, certain types of digital contracts and their elements.