Constitutionalism

Robert Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School Dieter Grimm has been a leading international theorist of the history, nature, and prospects of constitutionalism. His work is of deep relevance to significant modern phenomena, like the European Union. This book brings together and synthesizes more than two decades of work. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of contemporary constitutionalism.

Frank I. Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Law School Out of a series of deeply informed, tightly reasoned reflections on modern constitutionalism, Dieter Grimm distills his own brand of moderately contentious, guardedly optimistic constitutional wisdom for the present day. An added attraction is the access some chapters provide for Anglophone readers to past and present German scholarly debates and juridical solutions.

Vicki C. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School For those seeking to understand the conditions in which modern constitutions emerged and the changing conditions in which they now operate, these elegant essays are rewarding reading. Filled with insights from a lifetime of learning and devotion to constitutional law in Germany, Europe, and elsewhere they are at once synthetic and provocative, offering intriguing analyses of the challenges posed by the expanded risk-prevention tasks of contemporary governance (and related 'negotiative democracy') and by the regionalization and globalization of legal orders.

Dieter Grimm teaches constitutional law at Humboldt University Berlin and the Yale Law School. From 1987-1999 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2001-2007 he was the Director of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) whose Permanent Fellow he continues to be. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard, New York University, Toronto, Rome, Kolkata, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Toronto, Goettingen, Porto Alegre, and Bucarest. He has widely published on matters of constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and European Union law.