http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220819-181947-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/in-dubio-pro-futura/ In Dubio Pro Futura - A Novel Decision Rule to Preserve the Long-Term Interests of Humanity Bublitz, Christoph Winter, Christoph eng 2022-08-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Future Generations Future rights Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 This post introduces a proposal to promote the long-term interests of humanity and to avert existential and other catastrophic risks, such as those resulting from extreme climate change, pandemics and unaligned artificial intelligence, through the adoption of a novel legal decision rule: in dubio pro futura. In the face of legal indeterminacy, when the law does not provide a single correct answer but a range of several acceptable answers, courts should choose the one most favorable to the future of humanity.