JEFFREY SEITZER has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London./e The author of numerous articles on legal and political theory and comparative constitutionalism, he is currently translating Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy and Constitutional Theory.

• Introduction Retrofitting Liberal Constitutionalism: Constitutional Theory as a Response to the Weimar State Crisis Exorcising the Ghost of Composite States Past: Local Self-Government and Political Stability in the Kaiserreich Guarding the Constitution: The American Model in German Constitutional Politics Rethinking the Role of Courts: Constitutional Democracy as Institutional Dialogue

JEFFREY SEITZER has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London./e The author of numerous articles on legal and political theory and comparative constitutionalism, he is currently translating Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy and Constitutional Theory.

• Introduction Retrofitting Liberal Constitutionalism: Constitutional Theory as a Response to the Weimar State Crisis Exorcising the Ghost of Composite States Past: Local Self-Government and Political Stability in the Kaiserreich Guarding the Constitution: The American Model in German Constitutional Politics Rethinking the Role of Courts: Constitutional Democracy as Institutional Dialogue

JEFFREY SEITZER has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London./e The author of numerous articles on legal and political theory and comparative constitutionalism, he is currently translating Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy and Constitutional Theory.

• Introduction Retrofitting Liberal Constitutionalism: Constitutional Theory as a Response to the Weimar State Crisis Exorcising the Ghost of Composite States Past: Local Self-Government and Political Stability in the Kaiserreich Guarding the Constitution: The American Model in German Constitutional Politics Rethinking the Role of Courts: Constitutional Democracy as Institutional Dialogue