The Influence of the Acceleration of Time on Law. Law and Legal Culture in the Information Age

Abstract

In this article, I would like to point out some of the changes that have taken place in modern society, attempt to find new features of society in the positive law, show their impact on the legal system, and outline some of the challenges for the modern law, which have led to the emergence of a completely new type of society - often called the post-modern society. The paper zooms in on a select segment of the changes from a particular perspective: it looks at both society and the law in the context of their new operation in time. Currently, we can notice the manifestation of the acceleration of the pace of life in almost every expression of our culture. What is, therefore, the current state of the law? Has it also sped up? What is the future of the law in this context? These are the questions I try to answer in this article.