The rapid development of information technologies accentuates the need for regulation of the ensuing relations. Such regulation is possible through the technologies proper or by legal regulation means. If the latter way is selected, the relevance of study of the “IT-law” category comes to the forefront. The purpose of this article is to present own vision of the optimal methodological basis for the search and justification of the “IT-law” paradigm. The article demonstrates the inconsistency of attempts to qualify comprehensive legal regulation of relations within the framework of information society as a set of rules – a new branch of law, since in terms of normativist understanding of law, there are no such branches of law as IT-law, Internet-law and information law, etc. Instead, it is proposed to consider IT-law as a concept – a set of ideas, notions, knowledge, and associations ensuing from legal regulation of social relations related to the creation and use of information technologies. Therefore, the optimal methodological basis for defining the essence of IT-law would be to view it as a concept with a certain “normative content”. Such an approach allows avoiding the assessment of IT-law as a system of legal provisions which constitute a branch of law and relevant legal institutions etc. In this context it seems reasonable to understand the concept of “IT-law” in a wide, narrow and special sense with the appropriate structuring.

Authored books 
1. Bachynskyi T, Osnovy IT-prava [Foundations of IT-law] (Apriori 2016) (in Ukrainian).

2. Bajtin M, Sushhnost’ Prava (sovremennoe normativnoe pravoponimanie na grani dvuh vekov) [The Essence of Law (Modern Understanding of Regulatory Law on the Verge of Two Centuries)] (2-e izd, OOO ID “Pravo i gosudarstvo” 2005) (in Russian). 
3. Rabinovych P, Osnovy zahalnoi teorii prava ta derzhavy [Foundations of the General Theory of Law and State] (10-e vyd, Krai 2008) (in Ukrainian). 

Edited books 
4. Berzhel’ Z-L, Obshhaja teorija prava [General Theory of Law] (V Danilenko red, izdatel’skij dom NOTA BENE 2000) (in Russian). 

Articles 
5. Khriapchenko V, ‘Vid kryteriiv podilu systemy prava na haluzi do kompleksnykh haluzei prava’ [‘From the Criteria for Dividing the System of Law into Branches to Comprehensive Branches of Law’] (2015) 55 Aktualni problemy polityky 307 (in Ukrainian). 
6. Mikhailina T, ‘Pravosvidomist u ploshchyni strukturalizatsii systemy prava’ [‘Legal Consciousness in the Context of Law System Structuring’] (2017) 10 Pidpryiemnytstvo, hospodarstvo i pravo 192 (in Ukrainian). 
7. Mykolenko A, ‘Chy isnuiut kompleksni haluzi prava?’ [‘Are There Comprehensive Branches of Law?’] (2003) 6 Pravova derzhava 203 (in Ukrainian). 
8. Sannikova M, ‘Do pytannia kompleksnykh utvoren u systemi prava Ukrainy (na prykladi ahrarnoho prava)’ [‘On the Issue of Comprehensive Formations in the Law System of Ukraine (on the Example of Agrarian Law)’] (2014) 27 Derzhavne budivnytstvo ta mistseve samovriaduvannia 104 (in Ukrainian). 

Conference papers 
9. IT-pravo: problemy i perspektyvy rozvytku v Ukraini: Naukovo-praktychna konferentsiia [IT-Law: Development Issues and Prospects in Ukraine: Scientific and Practical Conference] (NU “Lvivska politekhnika” 2016) (in Ukrainian). 
10. IT-pravo: problemy i perspektyvy rozvytku v Ukraini: II Naukovo-praktychna konferentsiia [IT-Law: Development Issues and Prospects in Ukraine: Scientific and Practical Conference] (NU “Lvivska politekhnika” 2017) (in Ukrainian). 
11. Kharytonova O (red), Pravove rehuliuvannia IT-vidnosyn: Vseukrainskyi kruhlyi stil [Legal Regulation of IT-Relations: the All-Ukrainian Round Table] (Feniks 2017) (in Ukrainian). 
12. Kharytonova O (red), Zakhyst prava intelektualnoi vlasnosti u merezhi Internet: teoretychni ta praktychni aspekty: Internet-konferentsiia [Protection of Intellectual Property Right on the Internet: Theoretical and Practical Aspects: Internet Conference] (Yurydychna literatura 2015) (in Ukrainian). 
13. Kokhanovska O, ‘Pryvatno-pravove rozuminnia informatsiinykh vidnosyn v Ukraini’ [‘Understanding of Information Relations in Ukraine from the Perspective of Private Law’] IT-Pravo: Problemy i Perspektyvy Rozvytku v Ukraini: Naukovo-Praktychna Konferentsiia [IT-Law: Development Issues and Prospects in Ukraine: Scientific and Practical Conference] (NU “Lvivska politekhnika” 2016) (in Ukrainian). 
14. Liashenko R, ‘Problemni pytannia formuvannia novykh haluzei prava’ [‘Topical Issues Ensuing from the Onset of new Branches of Law’] Teoretyczne i praktyczne innowacje naukowe: zbiór raportów naukowych (Diamondtradingtour 2013) accessed 17 November 2017 (in Ukrainian). 
15. Pestova K ta Kravchuk V, ‘IT-zakonodavstvo: problemy, priorytety ta napriamy rozvytku’ [‘IT-Legislation: Issues, Priorities and Areas of Development’] IT-pravo: problemy i perspektyvy rozvytku v Ukraini: Naukovo-praktychna konferentsiia [IT-Law: Development Issues and Prospects in Ukraine: Scientific and Practical Conference] (NU “Lvivska politekhnika” 2016) (in Ukrainian). 
16. Simson O, ‘IT-pravo V. Informatsiinoho prava: na zlami epoch’ [‘IT-Law V. Information Law: on the Edges’] IT-pravo: problemy i perspektyvy rozvytku v Ukraini: II Naukovopraktychna konferentsiia [IT-Law: Development Issues and Prospects in Ukraine: Second Scientific and Practical Conference] (NU “Lvivska politekhnika” 2017) (in Ukrainian). 

Thesis abstracts 
17. Rassolov I, ‘Pravo i Internet: teoreticheskie problemy’ [‘Law and the Internet: Theoretical Issues’] (avtoref dis d-ra jurid nauk, Gosudarstvennoe obrazovatel’noe uchrezhdenie vysshego professional’nogo obrazovanija “Rossijskaja pravovaja akademija Ministerstva justicii Rossijskoj Federacii” 2008) (in Russian).