Shih-Chang Chen
Technology Assessment and Balancing in Legal System - The Conflict of Norms on GMO Products
The study is intended as a legal-sociological-oriented investigation on the conflict phenomena in national and transnational decision-making processes (Entscheidungsprozessen) relating to GMO products. The researcher attempts to observe how a conflict between two norms, which regulate GMO products, at national and transnational levels could be resolved in legal systems and how we can recharacterize these resolution processes. Three main purposes that the study intends to address are as following: (1) to compare and analyze the national and transnational normative conflict structures in cases of controversies over "GMO products" in/among Taiwan, the United States, Germany and EU by means of the "balancing model of principles", (2) to re-characterize the resolution forms for managing and regulating these conflicts from a second order observer point of view, and (3) to evaluate and to re-assess the meanings and functions of conflict management in the post-genomic context.
