Religion, Law, and Democracy

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019) was 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 (1983-1996), Böckenförde was a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested politica...