This volume contains contributions to a symposium of scholars from the
Nagoya Law School and the Faculty of Law of the
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg on the topic Preventive Instruments
of Social Governance. With the social governance by law and the
interplay between substantive legal standards and procedural enforcement
the Symposium addressed a topic of both outstanding academic and
practical importance. The legal framework is an essential instrument in
modern rule-of-law societies for defining standards of societal life. Of
course, ways of governance by law may vary between legal systems and
cultures, but in the analysis of legal governance instruments, the
interplay between substantive standards and their procedural enforcement
is always of central importance. In the pursuit of certain political or
social goals, a legal system is basically faced with two options: the
exertion of influence on the behaviour of its citizens either by means
of preventive or of reactive instruments. The relationship of these