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 prepared.The frequently transboundary and supranatural relevance of these new risks lead to a inevitable international cooperation concerning the efforts of a legal risk limitation; in respect of the different constitutional and cultural circumstances, however, this is a difficult exercise.Initial to all common efforts of dealing with this challenge there is the international and intercultural dialog, even if the implications and the eventually implemented solutions drift apart at national level in the end.In order to promote the international dialog within the jurisprudence there was a conference in October 2010 held by the faculty of law of the Georg-August-Universität, supported by the chair of GAU, together with the faculty of law of the Seoul National University discussing main issues of law in a modern information and risk society.With this volume the results of this convention shall be made accessible to everybody interested.Thereby it illustrates not only the variety of new issues and aspects, but also reveals that this can only be the beginning on the way to a deeper understanding of the complex correlations. Göttingen/Seoul, May 2011The Editors Gunnar Duttge xLaw and its scientific adaptation don't end at the national borders.Therefore we need to pursue with great interest the solutions and debates about similar, often identical legal questions of other legal systems.Thereby we are offered the opportunity to critically analyze and confront our own legal system.For criminal law, however, the amazingly well established relationship with our colleagues from South Korea is no news.For decades now, and for hopefully many more, professors as well as doctoral students have vivaciously exchanged ideas.Globalization, nevertheless, reaches all areas of law.It certainly embraces civil and constitutional law and all other interdisciplinary fields, one of which is medical and bio law, a traditional field in Göttingen which has seen an upward trend in recent years.The local center of medical law has strong ties with Ewha University's Institute for Biomedical Law & Ethics in Korea.With regards to recent developments in Göttingen's relationship to Seoul National University and its law faculty, the meetings and lecture events on the occasion of the opening of a branch of Göttingen University in Seoul are especially worth mentioning.Just last year we were fortunate to welcome here in Göttingen the president of the Seoul National University, who, during his visit to Göttingen's Center for Medical Law, voiced a strong interest in further communication and exchange of ideas, particularly between both law schools.With this background, we can take it up from here and with this conference further strengthen existing relations.Besides our vast unified interest in getting to know each other for institutional reasons, we join today chiefly because of our shared pursuit of the exchange of scientific ideas and for the purpose of deepening our knowledge of recent queries of Law in today's forged ahead risk and information society.As you all know, Law is facing new societal challenges which can no longer be coped with through conventional measures.One example is society's growing heterogeneity regarding its constitution and concomitant problems of integration, another one the exorbitant increase in significance of the media and new forms of communication in all public areas.An especially demanding societal challenge is the -in former times unimaginable -dimension of interconnectedness and all the consequences thereof, such as informational protection of privacy, on one hand, and on the other hand the amendment of responsibilities regarding the legal sanctioning of harm done, through a struggle with incomprehensible complications of causalities.These catchwords are only a few of many.They stand for all the new problems and questions which affect the interdisciplinary fields of legal sciences.The array of relevant topics is broad and hardly lucid, yet we -and I mean all of us as we are gathered here today -seemingly managed to perfectly single out the most essential questions for this conference which we will go on to discuss in detail later throughout the day.I am exceptionally thrilled about everything we are going to hear and further deliberate over today and tomorrow.I wish to already thank everyone very much who helped facilitate this conference, and make it possible in the first place, by