Fundamental Research Project "Legal Mechanisms for Overcoming Inequality"

Staff and PhD students of the School of International Law participate in the fundamental research project 2024 "Legal Mechanisms for Overcoming Inequality"

The project "Legal Mechanisms for Overcoming Inequality" is aimed at a comprehensive consideration of the phenomenon of inequality in the aspect of creating an effective legal system. The analysis of existing types and forms of inequality, including social, economic, informational, spatial, etc., implies the study of the causes, conditions, prerequisites and consequences of the manifestation and legal consolidation of inequality in human society.

The study of inequality in the increasingly accelerating transition to the information (post-industrial) society is impossible without taking into account the role played by information and communication technologies (hereinafter - ICT). The importance of these technologies can hardly be overestimated. Increasing the welfare of the population, quality of life and work, improving the availability and quality of public services, health care and education are inextricably linked to the level of international and national information security, as well as the availability of the Internet and the corresponding infrastructure. Hence, modern social and economic "ruptures" in society are fully or partially informational in nature. Meanwhile, the processes of lawmaking, interpretation, and law enforcement that form the "normative field" are in the stage of rapid development, and this development does not always take into account the need to address the problem of inequality. Instead, the dominant paradigm is the "military" paradigm, the abuse of which leads to the aggravation of inequality as an inevitable outcome of militarization.

In this regard, the project will analyze the most complex theoretical issues of the emergence and manifestation of inequalities in the ICT environment, related, inter alia, to inclusiveness, respect for sovereignty and non-interference in domestic affairs in "cyberspace"; political and legal attribution of responsibility of states for cyber operations; application of international law to relations in the ICT environment by analogy and/or its progressive development.