Dieter Grimm : advocate of the constitution /

Dieter Grimm is one of Germany's foremost scholars of constitutional law and theory with a high international reputation and an exceptional career. In this biographical interview, Grimm gives insights into his experience and shares background information that cannot be found in legal textbooks...

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Other Authors: Lepsius, Oliver, 1964- (Interviewer), Waldhoff, Christian (Interviewer), Rossbach, Matthias (Interviewer), Collings, Justin (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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
  • A. Responsibility for Communicative Fundamental Rights
  • B. 1987 as a Caesura in the History of the Federal Constitutional Court?
  • C. "Riding in the Woods"
  • D. Constitutional Law and Private Law
  • VII. Uproar about the Constitutional Court's Jurisprudence
  • A. Crucifix and "Soldiers are Murderers"
  • B. International Subject Matters, International Courts, International Standards
  • VIII. Fundamental Rights Doctrine and the Culture of Deliberation
  • A. Proportionality and Fundamental Rights Doctrine
  • B. Handling the Facts of the Case and Precedent
  • C. Culture of Deliberation and Doctrine
  • IX. Experiences on the Court
  • A. Everyday Work and the Shaping of Cases
  • B. The Constitutional Court's Place within the System of Powers
  • X. Europe
  • XI. International Constitutionalist: Renewed Ties with the US
  • XII. Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Study
  • XIII. Public Intellectual
  • XIV. From Outsider to the Center of Constitutional Scholarship
  • Index of Names