Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review

This book by former Federal Constitutional Judge Dieter Grimm is doubly topical: it is published on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Germany's highest judicial body and at a time when constitutional courts in various countries are under political pressure and have been deprived of their supervisory function as well as their independence by the curtailment of their powers or the appointment of judges along government lines. Questions of the vulnerability of constitutional courts are raised as well as the perennial problem of constitutional jurisdiction: whether it should be characterised as legal or as political and how it can be reconciled with the principles of democracy.

»The book, brilliantly written throughout, captivates readers with lucid argumentation and brilliant analyses.« Horst Dreier, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung