Legal decision-making often relies on scientific knowledge and information of other kinds, not least in environmental law where legal institutions use environmental modeling to, for example, project expected effects of projects when approving or denying permits. In this paper, using use the problem-feeding model of interdisciplinarity, we analyze this relationship as an exchange of problems and solutions between different communities of expertise. Drawing on recent examples from Finland, we use the problem-feeding model to explore the conditions under which problem-solution coordination breaks down. We argue that tensions between the notions of uncertainty used by the different communities of expertise can lead to differing understandings of the way the relationship between legal institutions and scientific experts works, and that this may disrupt the orderly exchange of problems and solutions. We illustrate our views in a fictional discussion between a lawyer and a modeler.

法律决策通常依赖于其他类型的科学知识和信息，尤其是在环境法中，法律机构使用环境模型来预测项目的预期效果，例如在批准或拒绝许可时。在本文中，我们使用跨学科的问题馈送模型，将这种关系分析为不同专业社区之间问题和解决方案的交流。借鉴芬兰最近的例子，我们使用问题反馈模型来探索问题解决协调失败的条件。我们认为，不同专业知识社区使用的不确定性概念之间的紧张关系可能导致对法律机构和科学专家之间的关系方式的不同理解，并且这可能会破坏问题和解决方案的有序交流。我们在律师和建模师之间的虚构讨论中阐明了我们的观点。