Brevi note sulle acquisizioni scientifiche del decisore pubblico e sul ruolo della Corte costituzionale

The technical-scientific acquisition of the public decision-maker is a subject that has only attracted the attention of legal scholars and comparatists since COVID-19. In the Italian case, the protagonism of the government and its main scientific advisory body (the CTS) has been combined with the subalternity of the parliament, which, moreover, has long since abandoned the idea of creating bodies or instruments to promote dialogue between politics and science. This is despite the fact that, since the early 2000s, the Constitutional Court has emphasized the need to limit the political discretion of the legislature, but also the need to engage with the scientific community when scientific issues are at stake. The fact that the Court has recently equipped itself with new tools to gather technical and scientific information suggests that the issue of the relationship between science and politics in Italy will continue to evolve in the coming years.