The review contains multiple characteristics of the recently published monograph by A. A. Linetz “Labor Law and Economics”. The issues covered in the book under review cover a wide range of labor legal issues in the context of building a digital economy: gig employment, work through digital labor platforms, transformation of labor relations, the role of the state and social partners in this process.

The conference review offers views on law that are widespread in our theoretical and legal science. It points out the outstanding role of the founder of German classical philosophy I. Kant in the formation of the philosophy of law. His idea of the categorical imperative is aimed at creating a model of a legal state, where a person is declared not only a means, but also an end. Kant is one of those who formed the metaphysical philosophy of law, i. e. a branch of knowledge that creates semantic models in the world of political and legal reality. The review discusses Kant’s influence on Russian and European philosophy of law, the significance of his ideas for modern times. In the second half of the 19th century, five or six neo-Kantian schools appeared (the largest are Baden and Marburg), where original concepts of the philosophy of law were created on the basis of Kant’s epistemology and ethics. In the 90s of the 19th century in Germany and in Russia, under the slogan “Back to Kant!” a school of revived natural law was formed, the purpose of which was to proclaim the eternal value of the individual and thus put an obstacle to class struggle and the coming revolution. Revolutionary Marxism was opposed by ethical socialism and the idea of a legal social state, which seems relevant in our historical era. The appeal to the ideas of Kant also meant a turn towards idealism and religion, which gave a new impetus to the development of the philosophy of law.

The article reveals the main problems and prospects of the activities of Scientific Advisory Councils in the Russian Federation. Scientific Advisory Councils have a special ability to organize real effective interaction between law enforcement and the scientific community through common systemic work that has real socially useful results. It seems that effectively and correctly organized activities of Scientific Advisory Councils are the place where the truth is born. The activities of Scientific Advisory Councils are also distinguished by the ability not only to identify problematic issues of law enforcement, but also to form uniformity in judicial practice. The main problem in the activities of Scientific Advisory Councils in the Russian Federation is the lack of a uniform procedure for organizing their activities, as well as the ineffectiveness of using the existing potential of Scientific Advisory Councils. The work analyzes the best practices of using the institution of Scientific Advisory Councils in the system of arbitration courts of the Russian Federation. The author notes that the highest bodies of legislative, executive or judicial power are not always able to independently detect legal conflicts and problems. The existing problems of law enforcement mostly arise for law enforcement officers at the local level. The effective activity of the Scientific Advisory Councils allows formulating a uniform approach to the application of legal norms in those situations for which the law enforcement officer has developed different practices. In addition, the article substantiates the need to develop and improve the institute of Scientific Advisory Councils in the Russian Federation.

The advent of the big data era not only brings convenience to our daily lives, but also creates problems and risks for the protection of personal data of citizens. In order to effectively prevent, terminate or eliminate problems arising in connection with the legal protection of personal information, strengthening the administrative and legal protection of personal information is a more realistic way. The main arguments for this are that, firstly, in order to realize economic interests, violations are often committed related to the illegal collection, processing and use of personal information of citizens by subjects of a market economy; secondly, administrative authorities are obliged to maintain, manage and supervise various civil rights of citizens, including the right to personal information, and their right to participate in public affairs; Finally, while performing administrative functions and serving the public interest, administrative authorities also collect a large amount of personal data of citizens, thereby increasing the possibility of large-scale leakage of personal information. The article analyzes a number of problems related to the administrative and legal protection of personal information in China, and on this basis, proposals such as improving the system of administrative measures to protect personal information, clarifying the responsibilities of relevant regulatory authorities, taking various supervisory measures and strengthening the structure of administrative proceedings in the public interest are put forward.

This article is devoted to the problem of the volitional content of intent in crimes with formal compositions. The author analyzes the configuration of types of intent in crimes with formal compositions from the point of view of the current criminal law and the theory of criminal law. It is concluded that a crime with a formal composition with indirect intent is impossible, since the volitional criterion of indirect intent (“conscious assumption”) It is characterized by substantial uncertainty, while the volitional criterion of direct intent (“desire”) is the only definition that exhaustively expresses the volitional content of intent. In the article, by analyzing the doctrine of criminal law of the XIX–XX centuries. The problem of a person’s desire to commit an action (inaction) regardless of the onset of socially dangerous consequences is considered as a volitional criterion of intent in a crime with a formal composition: the author concludes that intent in crimes with a formal composition can only be described using an intellectual criterion, since the desire to commit an action (inaction) regardless of the onset of socially dangerous consequences is an element of the sanity of the subject of the crime, but not of guilt. The author comes to the conclusion that bringing to criminal responsibility for the commission of crimes with formal compositions is an objective imputation, while in order to avoid objective imputation, it is possible to construct many compositions of crime traditionally attributed to formal ones as compositions of danger.