Abstract
Contrary to popular opinion, the norms, procedures and models of science and law have long maintained a close and intertwined, albeit changing, relationship. While the more juridico procedure imposed itself on all academic disciplines in the Middle Ages and subsequently inspired the development of the experimental scientific method, the situation was reversed in the Modern Age, when law sought legitimacy in the methods of fashionable sciences, from mathematics and economics to history and sociology. We shall see how this movement continues today in the crucible of technical standards and indicators, of evidence based law and of artificial intelligence applications, in a way that radically transforms the logic and concrete modes of elaboration and application of contemporary regulations.
