이행기 IT법학의 구조와 쟁점 - 가상현실과 인공지능의 영향을 중심으로 -

IT Law has made steady progress since the introducing of internet. In a larger context, it has developed stage by stage. The first step of IT Law’s development appeared when full-scale popularization of the internet realized(the late 1990s). The second step came out after the widespread of mobile communications(the late 2000s). IT Law also started to incorporate its contents through these process gradually. On the basis of these progress, there are the legal and normative concerns of architecture. However ultimately, the characteristic or uniqueness of IT Law can be identified from the time when the architecture confined to cyberspace starts coming into real space. The technologies of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence which are the main subjects of this article provide some approaches to the characteristic or uniqueness of IT Law. Surely, the issues of law around these technologies cannot be called the third step of IT Law’s development in response to these situation because technical changes are still not worthy of notice. In this reason, this article named the legal studies of this time as “IT Law of transitional period”. Now, the direction of architecture organization should be discussed because the IT Law of transitional period includes legal and normative system relating to newly constituted society as well as traditional issues. In this procedure, the autonomous characteristic of IT Law will come to be remarkable than in the past. As a result, it requires in-depth legal research on IT Law, just as legal scholars concentrated on the divers discourses on legal and normative issues at the initial stage of internet.