The Impact of Digitalization on Legal Communication: Introduction

The impact of digitalization on the legal sphere is not restricted to access to information but also affects the production and interpretation of it. Digital tools provide assistance in carrying out preliminary tasks regarding these matters, such as by identifying relevant points from a vast number of texts, which consequently merit further reading and by providing translations which correspond to source language use, which may then follow with post-editing by a human translator. Such tools continue to assist humans, but do not yet exceed human intervention on tasks. There is no doubt that digitalization is capable of both resolving challenges and creating new ones and elements of digitalization in the form of the internet as well as digital tools will play a role not only in the production of such challenges but also in settling them.