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Author Grimm, Dieter, 1937- interviewee.

Title Dieter Grimm : advocate of the constitution / Dieter Grimm ; in conversation with Oliver Lepsius, Christian Waldhoff, and Matthias Rossbach ; translated by Justin Collings
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
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
Summary 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 or treatises
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grimm, Dieter, 1937- -- Interviews
Lawyers -- Germany -- Interviews
Constitutional law -- Germany
Constitutional law
Constitutional law -- Philosophy
Lawyers
Germany
Genre/Form interviews.
Interviews
Biographies.
Interviews.
Biographies.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
Author Lepsius, Oliver, 1964- interviewer.
Waldhoff, Christian, interviewer
Rossbach, Matthias (Jurist), interviewer.
Collings, Justin, translator
ISBN 9780192583970
0192583972
9780191880551
0191880558
9780192583963
0192583964
Other Titles Ich bin ein Freund der Verfassung. English