The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany

Third edition, Revised and Expanded

Donald P. Kommers, Russell A. Miller

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780822352662
  9780822352488
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822395386
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: German History
• Index: Law

First published in 1989, The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany has become an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of comparative, international, and constitutional law, as well as of German and European politics. The third edition of this renowned English-language reference has now been fully updated and significantly expanded to incorporate both previously omitted topics and recent decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court. As in previous editions, Donald P. Kommers and Russell A. Miller's discussions of key developments in German constitutional law are augmented by elegantly translated excerpts from more than one hundred German judicial decisions.

Compared to previous editions of The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany, this third edition more closely tracks Germany's Basic Law and, therefore, the systematic approach reflected in the most-respected German constitutional law commentaries. Entirely new chapters address the relationship between German law and European and international law; social and economic rights, including the property and occupational rights cases that have emerged from Reunification; jurisprudence related to issues of equality, particularly gender equality; and the tension between Germany's counterterrorism efforts and its constitutional guarantees of liberty. Kommers and Miller have also updated existing chapters to address recent decisions involving human rights, federalism, European integration, and religious liberty.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword to the Third Edition: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Translation and Judicial Opinions
• Abbreviations
• Part I: German Constitutionalism
• Part II: Constitutional Structures and Relationships
• Part III: Basic Rights and Liberties
• Appendix A: Chronological Chart of the Justices
• Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Presidents and Vice Presidents
• Notes
• Table of Cases
• Index
• Permissions