Scienza e diritto. Riflessioni sul principio di precauzione
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO
Author/s Luigi Pannarale
Publishing Year 2004 Issue 2003/3
Language Italian Pages 25 P. File size 187 KB
DOI
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
In the modern age, the differentiation between social systems on the basis of a specific function has led to the establishment of a series of systems, including a system of law and one of science. Moreover, the essential traits of these two systems have gradually undergone profound change: law has tended increasingly towards positivism and science has expanded the field of its applications, though at the price of transforming its certainties into probabilities. These transformations have also affected how science and law relate to one another, as science is no longer capable of offering law any preconstituted truths, while law is obliged to decide what science is incapable of knowing. When this expectation that it is possible to legislate for everything runs into the risks intrinsic in new technologies, it reacts by elaborating new legal categories, such as the principle of precaution, which is particularly effective in enabling technological risks to be distributed and the traditional models of political decision-making to be subjected to problematic reappraisal.
Luigi Pannarale, Scienza e diritto. Riflessioni sul principio di precauzione in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO " 3/2003, pp , DOI: