As the title of general theme of the Berlin 2007 Joint Meeting indicates, for the first time socio-legal “fu-tures” have been formally recognised as a relevant variable in the international agenda of socio-legal study and research. As a representative member of the ISA-RCSL at the Berlin 2007 Programme Commit-tee Meeting held in Baltimore in June 2006, I was particularly happy with this theoretical and methodo-logical option for it followed my suggestion, made in March 2006, to move ahead the discipline and look forward, towards the new Century. The theme that I suggested then was verbatim: “Trespassing Positional Landscapes: Views on Socio-Legal Futuribles”. This is precisely what I wish to reassess, here and now, as thematic issue for the ISA-RCSL Working Group “So-cial System and Legal System” Berlin 2007 Meeting Session(s) call-for-papers. Let me explain the ration-ale of this proposal. The French word futuribles is drawn from a typical XX Century encyclopaedic-humanistic (sociologist, political scientist, historian) French intellectual: Beltrand de Jouvenel. The term can be easily translated in English as futures, narrow-ing its meaning and content just a bit. For the WG purposes, futuribles (or futures) are conceived a preliminary social-scientific (cognitive) dimension of any potential human planning or project: the way and/or the process of sorting out coordinates, direc-tional paths, chances and challenges towards those future states whose forms of achievement are some-how imaginable and reasonably acceptable to us from the point of view of both the state-of-the-art (or sci-ence) currently at disposal, and the state of our hu-man conditions, as it appears or is actually experi-enced in our space-time. In brief futuribles are not, and therefore should not be confused with, a matter of mere “social engineering”, even though they might offer some hints in this respect. As we know, socio-legal dynamic is not necessarily identical with what is officially propagated and commonly perceived. There-fore, to escape the temptation to follow mere ideologi-cal view-points, it is necessary to consider the whole bandwidth of signals we can receive from the socio-normative realms under scrutiny and try to combine the available data-in-progress according to prospec-tivist and relativistic approaches. Futuribles imply and constitute l’art de la conjecture, as they are grounded on a mix of historical facts and experiences as well as on scientific study and research. As such, they foster sociological imagination and counteract stereotyped discourses. Researching, debating and understanding futuribles can be achieved by virtue of scenario tech-niques supported by historical records, i.e. by a deep knowledge of path dependency variables. In fact, scenarios are not projections or predictions to assess the future as such. They are just illustrations of trends open to the future which help to decipher and interpret either emerging transformations or conditions of/for resistance to change. For this reason their design requires a substantial cultural background, a degree of intuition and the ability to synthesize disparate ma-terials. According to the above, what is needed also it is (1) a “trespassing” from current perceptions and conceptions of our scientific work, in the sense that what really matters is a focus on emerging futures and (2) deal with them as veritable “landscapes”, not mere “social fields” or “disciplinary areas”. In brief, what is needed is to mobilize the horizon of our “positional” world-views, in order to account for the un-repressible complexity stemming from the tension between the past, the present and the future of our society.