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Wolfgang Kahl
Administrative law in Germany is traditionally influenced by the ‘juristic method’ juristische Methode This method is shaped by the concept of a systemic legal order and by the distinction between legislation legal politics and law application legal dogmatics It concentrates on the legal protection perspective and the ‘legal act’ Rechtsakt standing for the formal binding and intervening decision of an authority However since the early 1990s of the last century a large group of more progressive German scholars is working on a reform concept in order to substitute the one-sided approach of the juristic method by a new approach denoted as the ‘new administrative law science’ Neue Verwaltungsrechtswissenschaft The new administrative law science is based on a more open interdisciplinary method and a steering approach Steuerungswissenschaft focusing on decision making and on results ‘products’ The following article comprises the most significant assumptions and ideas of this new scientific stream and provides a differentiated evaluation
