Actio, Anspruch, subjektives Recht

Law, in order to be law, relies on being justiciable and enforceable. Insofar, it is procedure that makes the law. Nonetheless, procedure and remedies lead lives in the shadows, being often discarded as »mere technicalities«, strictly depending on what parties to a controversy »actually« owe one another. The present work takes on a different perspective in the context of German administrative law - with quite surprising results.