Emerging questions for emerging technologies: Is there a law for the nano?

Abstract

Nanotechnologies are a rapidly growing field of researches and applications. Their interdisciplinary scope, as well as the wide range of products they permit, qualified them, early, as enabling or general purpose technologies [1]. Almost all the fields of social life, from research, innovation, work safety, health, consumption, etc., to waste treatment, are, thus, affected by their development. These fields are already framed by legal norms. Thus, a rapid answer to the question we have raised might be, yes, there is plenty of law for the Nano [2].