Dieter Grimm: Advocate of the Constitution

by Grimm, Dieter

• ISBN13: 9780191880551
• ISBN10: 0191880558
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2020-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Dieter Grimm, Professor of Law, Humboldt University Berlin; Permanent Fellow and former Rector, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study

Dieter Grimm is a professor of public law at Humboldt University Berlin and a Permanent Fellow and former Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). Besides his affiliation with Humboldt University, he has also taught at the Yale Law School in the United States and was visiting professor at many other universities around the world. From 1987 to 1999 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. He has published extensively on constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, and European law.

Table of Contents

I. Biographical Imprints - Childhood Home, War, School, Career Hopes
II. University
III. Paris, America, and PhD
IV. Max Planck Institute and Habilitation
V. Bielefeld
VI. Karlsruhe: From Scholarship to Practice
VII. The uproar about the Constitutional Court's Jurisprudence
VIII. Fundamental Rights Doctrine and the Culture of Deliberation
IX. Experiences on the Court
X. Europe
XI. International Constitutionalist: Renewed Ties with the U.S.
XII. Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Study
XIII. Public Intellectual
XIV. From Outsider to the Center of Constitutional Scholarship