Michaela Hailbronner currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative and international Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, on humanitarian and human rights law and constitutionalism in the Global South. She holds two German law degrees (University of Freiburg 2007, Berlin High Court 2009) and an LLM (2010) and JSD (2013) from Yale Law School, for which she was awarded grants by the Zempelin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German National Academic Foundation. Previously, Michaela Hailbronner worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg and as a legal clerk in the German Foreign Office, in the Federal Department for Economic Cooperation and Development. She also taught constitutional law at Humboldt University.

A mature and very readable book (not always the case with German scholarship) by a young scholar, constituting a nice balance between synthesis and analysis of German Constitutionalism, with a focus on the German Constitutional Court.

• 1. Constitutional Paradigms and Judicial Authority ; 2. Transitions and Transformations: Towards Activist Constitutionalism ; 3. Hierarchical Authority in German Constitutional Law: The Constitutional Court between Law and Politics ; 4. Value Formalism ; 5. Judicial Self-Reflection and Institutional Awareness ; 7. We the Lawyers - Dialogue and Constitutional Patriotism ; Conclusion

Michaela Hailbronner currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative and international Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, on humanitarian and human rights law and constitutionalism in the Global South. She holds two German law degrees (University of Freiburg 2007, Berlin High Court 2009) and an LLM (2010) and JSD (2013) from Yale Law School, for which she was awarded grants by the Zempelin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German National Academic Foundation. Previously, Michaela Hailbronner worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg and as a legal clerk in the German Foreign Office, in the Federal Department for Economic Cooperation and Development. She also taught constitutional law at Humboldt University.

A mature and very readable book (not always the case with German scholarship) by a young scholar, constituting a nice balance between synthesis and analysis of German Constitutionalism, with a focus on the German Constitutional Court.

• 1. Constitutional Paradigms and Judicial Authority ; 2. Transitions and Transformations: Towards Activist Constitutionalism ; 3. Hierarchical Authority in German Constitutional Law: The Constitutional Court between Law and Politics ; 4. Value Formalism ; 5. Judicial Self-Reflection and Institutional Awareness ; 7. We the Lawyers - Dialogue and Constitutional Patriotism ; Conclusion

Michaela Hailbronner currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative and international Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, on humanitarian and human rights law and constitutionalism in the Global South. She holds two German law degrees (University of Freiburg 2007, Berlin High Court 2009) and an LLM (2010) and JSD (2013) from Yale Law School, for which she was awarded grants by the Zempelin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German National Academic Foundation. Previously, Michaela Hailbronner worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg and as a legal clerk in the German Foreign Office, in the Federal Department for Economic Cooperation and Development. She also taught constitutional law at Humboldt University.

A mature and very readable book (not always the case with German scholarship) by a young scholar, constituting a nice balance between synthesis and analysis of German Constitutionalism, with a focus on the German Constitutional Court.

• 1. Constitutional Paradigms and Judicial Authority ; 2. Transitions and Transformations: Towards Activist Constitutionalism ; 3. Hierarchical Authority in German Constitutional Law: The Constitutional Court between Law and Politics ; 4. Value Formalism ; 5. Judicial Self-Reflection and Institutional Awareness ; 7. We the Lawyers - Dialogue and Constitutional Patriotism ; Conclusion