Gefahrenabwehrrecht und Risikodogmatik

Scientific advances and the methods of implementing new technologies in the 20th and 21st centuries have presented new challenges to the law. How can administrative law cope with the opportunities and the risks which these new procedures, applications and products involve? Liv Jaeckel suggests a system which embeds the particularities of modern risk law within a common fundamental idea and which presents structural guidelines for the evaluation of particular case decisions. In doing so, she links this to an evaluation of the knowledge of each of the government levels in charge and to their capacity to act. In this way, she provides an overall picture which regardless of complex details can be traced back again and again to a uniform basic pattern: the comparison between the objective concept of danger and the (normative) subjective concept of risk.