A completely new treatment as well as a fundamentally new arrangement for the sections is associated with this 13th edition of this successful and established textbook. The new edition comprehensively covers the current trend for legislation, case law and academic discussion in the field of general administrative law and of administrative procedural law. Particular value is placed on the consideration of the legal trend in European Community law. The new edition includes the current issue of the Law Index (JK) on CD-ROM for the first time: The 2005 edition includes almost 5,000 annotated decisions. The footnotes for the individual sections contain highlighted references to the respectively relevant decisions on the CD-ROM, and in doing so offer the option to use the rich archive contained there for deep study of the textbook.