Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Freiburg; former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, University of Freiburg

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde is a Professor emeritus of Public Law at the University of Freiburg. He is one of the best-known and most influential German legal scholars in the post-war period. From 1983-1996 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In the 1960s, Böckenförde was one of the founders of the journal Der Staat - Zeitschrift für Staatslehre, Öffentliches Recht und Verfassungsgeschichte. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party and served as a long-time legal advisor to it. Mirjam Künkler is Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study; Tine Stein is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Kiel

Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein

"Both as a justice and thinker, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde is a towering figure in German law and philosophy. It is past time for the English-speaking world to fully confront his remarkable contributions to modern constitutionalism." - Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

"Few scholars have been as decisive and important to German constitutional thinking as Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. The translation into English of some of his major works will make a similar contribution to constitutional theorizing well beyond the German-speaking world. Böckenförde falls into the rare category of indispensable scholarship." - J. H. H. Weiler, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair, New York University School of Law

"This is a major contribution to the debate and should be read by everyone with interests at the intersection of constitutional and political theory." - Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University