Reconstruction Paradigm of Legal Theory in the Era of Digital Disruption

Abstract

Digital transformation has created fundamental changes in global social, economic, and political structures, including the ways legal norms are produced, distributed, and enforced. The presence of digital technology, artificial intelligence, and transnational platforms has generated new sources of normativity that are no longer entirely under state control. This condition challenges the basic assumptions of classical legal theory oriented toward the centrality of formal authority and stable normative structures. This article aims to analyze the disruption of normativity in the digital era and formulate a reconstruction of the legal theory paradigm capable of explaining the plurality of contemporary regulatory sources. The research employs a normative philosophical approach with conceptual analysis of the epistemological foundations of modern legal theory. The findings indicate that law can no longer be understood as a unitary normative system, but rather as a plural configuration formed through interactions between the state, technology, and transnational power. A new legal theory paradigm is needed that integrates normative pluralism, the ontological transformation of law, and recognition of technology as a regulatory agent. This reconstruction paradigm encompasses shifts from monism to normative pluralism, from state centrality to regulatory networks, and from normative stability to regulatory dynamism.