L’obbligazione tra nuovi linguaggi e scenari futuri

This contribution probes into the method – and language – re-lated problems in the current study of obligations and focuses on two main issues: a) the effects – also in terms of language – of the European Union’s legal regulations, especially the proposed regula-tions of monetary obligations, on old normative and conceptual models that are now being drawn into the realm of technological and digital systems; b) the appearance of new forms of objectifying obligations in different schools of legal theory. In this case, mone-tary obligations –unbound from the causal event and falling under several regulatory statutes – appear to confirm a crisis in the legisla-tive form of the causal principle.