Rule of Law, Science and Technology

Chairs
Luca Mezzeti luca.mezzetti@unibo.it
James R. May james.may@washburn.edu

Rapidly advancing scientific and technological development—including artificial intelligence, the energy transition, and attribution science—is of crucial importance for surmounting the modern challenges facing humankind. These constitute both an aid and a peril. The law must promote this development whilst simultaneously establishing adequate safeguards against potential threats to human beings, their dignity and freedom, and the foundations of the democratic state order.

We welcome submissions that examine and evaluate the positive and negative impacts of new technologies on the Rule of Law; that is, their facilitating and complicating roles regarding the indispensable elements of the Rule of Law, such as judicial independence, the quality of legislation, and the protection of rights and freedoms.