Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

In the article the current state of information procuring of legal activity is analyzed and the directions of improving the legislative, law enforcement and law-education process on the basis of the use of intellectual systems and technologies in the field of law are defined with help of using of semiotics of law’s methodology. In particular, based on the study of philosophical and legal (philosophy of law’s), legal (theory of law’s) and IT (information technology) literature, it is determined that the following types of automated information systems are used in the activity of law enforcement bodies: 1) automated data processing systems designed to solve well-structured tasks, which are input data, known algorithms and standard processing procedures; 2) automated information retrieval systems that provide the selection and output of information according to the request of the user and in accordance with the conditions specified therein (it is precisely because of them that automated records are implemented – through which the user finds among some set of registered documents (facts) those that are devoted specified in the subject matter request (subject) or contain the information required by him); 3) automated information and reference systems, through which stored and issued on request data that does not require complex transformation; 4) automated information recognition systems, that is, electronic image processing systems; 5) automated workplaces, that is, complexes of technical and software tools intended for automation of professional work of a specialist; 6) automated control systems designed to provide information management; 7) decision support systems, which are based on a combination of different types of automated information systems; 8) expert systems – systems of "artificial intelligence", which are able to formulate solutions or give a recommendation for the choice of action based on the rules contained in the knowledge base and the data provided by the user. The directions of optimization of the legislative, law administration, law-making process and law enforcement activity are determined in the context of semiotic-legal analysis of problems of automation of legal procedures. The importance of the semiotic approach for solving certain actual problems of jurisprudence at the present stage of its development is described.