The law in the information and risk society
Journal: Göttinger juristische Schriften
Year: 2011

The information and risk society poses a new challenge for the law in all its fragments. Modern media communication and technologies increase people's prosperity while stating new risks with not uncommonly devastating crisispotential: The banking crisis, the safety net for the euro zone and the nuclear incident in Fukushima are only the latest forms of those specific modern common dangers which the law is facing -in many cases due to it's domestically limited validity -not or not sufficiently pr