Embedding the Relationship between Law and Governance

How can we understand the relationship between law and governance? In order to characterize this relationship it seems necessary to ask: Why is governance now such a big issue? Why had this form to lead a good life in community such a great uprising in the last decades? Is governance a new invention or an old form or mean to lead a good life? To start with the last question: In history we had all times governance structures that is forms of governance. So governance is a form of communal action to lead a good life in communities which had ever existed in the history of mankind. But why have governance and/or the concept of governance become in the last decades such an important instrument to analyze our way to lead a good life in the community? Governance has – this is my main theses – the purpose or function to break up the close – and by many now considered too close – relationship between law and politics. Or to formulate it a little more drastically: Governance has the purpose or function to free law from politics and perhaps also to a certain extent to free politics from law.

The working paper 'Embedding the Relationship between Law and Governance' can be found here.