Study on the legal mechanism of local government epidemic management taking COVID-19 prevention and control as example

Abstract

Living in the risk society described by the sociologist Baker, the free market mechanism cannot regulate the value of risk and choice, which requires the government to break away from the traditional concept of administrative law, integrate the risk theory, and establish an administrative legal system that ADAPTS to The Times. The emergence of COVID-19 is undoubtedly a major test of China's existing legal system for emergency management. This paper will take this epidemic as an example to explore the drawbacks of the current emergency management system in themodern risk era and study how to establish an effective emergency management legal system in the new era