Constitutional and Political Theory

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (b. 1930, d. 2019) is one of Europe''s foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany''s Federal Constitutional Court (December 1983 - May 1996), Böckenförde has been a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions,...