Concepts of Uncertainty and the Collision with Reality

... International Conference on Comparative Law. We attended the events either as moderators, or as keynote speakers. And everywhere we went, every presentation and comment was accompanied by a peculiar refrain claiming that the world is now dominated by uncertainty. Uncertainty rules everywhere: in global politics and economics, in the domestic and foreign policies of individual states, and in legal proposals that are being put to vote. However, when people keep talking about this “uncertainty” as ...