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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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 StellenboschInstitute 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, Göttingen, Porto Alegre, and Bucarest. He has widely published on matters of constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and European Union law. Klappentext For the first time many of Professor Dieter Grimm's influential essays on modern constitutionalism will be available in this authoritative collection of his work. Zusammenfassung For the first time many of Professor Dieter Grimm's influential essays on modern constitutionalism will be available in this authoritative collection of his work.
