The Impact of Scientific and Technological Progress in Biotechnology on Human Rights and Principles of Law

Abstract

The paper raises ethical and social problems of biolaw, consideration of which is necessary to improve its principles and norms. The authors are convinced that biolaw is designed to take into account both the advantages and problematic aspects associated with the impact of new technologies on the human body that can change a person as a physical individual and, accordingly, transform society and humanity as a whole. The paper touches upon two key aspects of biolaw: the development of biorights or rights related to the human body in the system of rights of a new generation and the definition of principles of biolaw that ensure the unity of legal and ethical-social regulators in biotechnology. One of the important conclusions is that, although human biorights and the principles of biolaw are interrelated institutions, in the system of legal regulation they have features of content and action. Having identified the need to develop a new approach to understanding the principles of biolaw, the authors emphasize the need to create a theory of biolaw taxonomy or biotaxonomy, within which special importance should be given to the principles of biolaw as a dogmatic and sustainable means of legal regulation that form a systemic relationship with the principles of bioethics, constituting a single, dialectically interrelated homological series. Thus, the paper gives an opportunity to think about the development of the theory of biopraw and the prospects for its development in the paradigm of interaction with ethical and other social regulators.