FORUM PRESENTATION THE ROLE OF LAW IN THE ERA OF CHANGE1 By Alessandro Criscuolo (Italy) Author President of the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic Abstract The paper analyses the changes in the modern life and law. <...> The main factors of such changes are the technological progress and the evolution of rapid and efficient means of communication as well as the opportunity to get access to vastest information resources from practically any geographical location via internet. <...> In this context the great goal of modern society is the creation of common values with all due respect for different cultural traditions. <...> These changes taken place in the post-modern society have resulted not only in the emergence of novel disciplines and new categories of fundamental rights but also in the evolution of traditional juridical institutions, such as those of civil responsibility, the property law and the marriage law. <...> The author notes and approves the trend of some growth of the ‘promotional’ or ‘stimulating’ rules in modern legislation. <...> Such approach provides and guarantees the 1 Translated from Italian by Vitaly A. Rodionov, PhD (Linguistics), Associate Professor at the Kutafin Moscow State Law University English Department. <...> Volume 2 October 2015 Issue 2(4) www.kulawr.ru 252 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW existence of a ‘space’ where decisions are not made once for all and helps to develop the human freedom. <...> Further the author underlines that in the modern reality, so complicated and so quickly changing, the role of individuals who are supposed to interpret legal norms is fundamental. <...> Finally the author marks the increasing role of international law in the modern world particularly in the sphere of human rights protection. <...> Keywords Modern law, interpreting the Law, Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic, Constitutional law and International law, promotional legal rules, human rights protection DOI: 10.17803/2313-5395.2015.2.4.251-262 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction .252 II. <...> The factors changing our modern life and the law .253 III. <...> The creation of common values with all due respect for different cultural traditions as the great goal of modern society .254 IV. <...> Conclusion .262 I. INTRODUCTION I would like to thank all those present and to express my appreciation of this event aimed at exchanging different views and sharing experiences stimulating in this way relevant discourses <...>