Axiological Pluralism: Jurisdiction, Law-Making and Pluralisms

This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies. The various degrees to which scientific data and moral values have been integrated into the legal discourse reveal the need for a systematic review of the options and solutions that judges have elaborated on. In turn, the book presents a systematic approach, based on a proposed pattern for classifying these various degrees, together with an in-depth analysis of the multi-layered role of jurisdictions and the means available to them for properly handling new legal demands arising in plural societies.

The book outlines a model that makes it possible to focus on and address these issues in a sustainable manner, that is, to respond to individual requests and technological advances in the field of biolaw by consistently and effectively applying suitable legal instruments and jurisdictional interpretation.

Lucia Busatta is currently research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento. Previously, she has been working as a research fellow at the University of Trento and, between 2016 and 2019, at the University of Padua. Her main fields of research concern healthcare law and biolaw, migration law, fundamental rights guarantee and disability studies. She extensively published both in Italian and in Engilsh on these topics and she is also associate editor of BioLaw Journal.
Carlo Casonato is professor of Comparative constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento. He is a member of the Italian National Bioethics Committee, and of the OECD Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. He teaches Law and AI, Biolaw, and Bioethics in different Universities. He has also been the PI in two Jean Monnet initiatives on Law, Life Sciences and AI. He published/edited 20 books, and he is author or co-author of more than 130 articles and papers. He is founder and chief editor of BioLaw Journal.