Dieter Grimm, Dr. Dr. h.c. mult., LL.M. (Harvard)

Project

Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte, Band II (Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik)

Colloquium, 16.06.2020

Constitutional Adjudication - Legal or Political?

Wondering whether I should report on work in progress or treat a subject that is likely to attract broad interest, I decided in favor of the latter. The disadvantage of this decision is that the question is by no means new, the advantage being its lasting topicality. The question is controversial in the general public, as well as in the academic disciplines concerned with it. In my opinion, the usual opposition: "legal or political?", is not sufficiently differentiated. So, I intend to reformulate it, asking what exactly is political and what might be legal about constitutional adjudication. The focus thus shifts from the institution and the actors to the process of adjudicating, i.e., to the interpretation and application of constitutional provisions to specific issues. This implies the question how constitutional interpretation (or legal interpretation in general) differs from other forms of interpretation, for instance literary interpretation.

Publications from the Fellows' Library

Grimm, Dieter (Gordonsville, 2024)

Constitutional courts and judicial review : between law and politics Hart studies in constitutional theory ; vol 7

Grimm, Dieter (Bari, 2023)

Sovranità : origine e futuro di un concetto chiave Souveränität

Grimm, Dieter (München, 2022)

Die Historiker und die Verfassung : ein Beitrag zur Wirkungsgeschichte des Grundgesetzes Edition der Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung

Grimm, Dieter (2021)

A conversation with Dieter Grimm

Grimm, Dieter (Tübingen, 2021)

Grundrechtsfunktionen jenseits des Staates Future concepts of law ; 1

Grimm, Dieter (Berlin, 2021)

Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft ; 2357

Grimm, Dieter (Baden-Baden, 2021)

Demokratischer Konstitutionalismus : Dieter Grimms Verständnis von Staat und Verfassung Staatsverständnisse ; Band 148

Grimm, Dieter (2020)

Verfassungsrechtsprechung - juristisch oder politisch?

Grimm, Dieter (Oxford, UK, 2020)

Dieter Grimm : advocate of the constitution Ich bin ein Freund der Verfassung

Grimm, Dieter (Berlin, 2020)

Recht oder Politik? : die Kelsen-Schmitt-Kontroverse zur Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit und die heutige Lage Carl-Schmitt-Vorlesungen ; Bd. 4