La transizione digitale e ambientale: sfide ed opportunità per il diritto nella regolazione dell'innovazione sostenibile

The twin digital and environmental transition requires law to govern innovation without constraining it, while ensuring sustainability, justice, and democratic legitimacy. Traditional regulatory instruments prove inadequate in a context marked by complexity and rapid technological change, creating the risk of either ineffective regulation or technocratic governance. The paper shows how European law is evolving toward a reflexive and procedural paradigm capable of operating as an adaptive infrastructure for the transition. Through the analysis of the AI Act, the Data Act, and the CSRD, law no longer merely prescribes conduct but constructs frameworks of accountability, transparency, and collective learning. The study also highlights the role of data as infrastructural goods and the function of law as a mechanism of multilevel coordination. The justice of the transition becomes a central criterion of normative legitimacy. What emerges is a generative model of law, no longer only reactive, able to accompany sustainable innovation by transforming risk into an institutional opportunity.