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by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (Author), Mirjam Künkler (Editor), Tine Stein (Editor)
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 political issues such as the constitutional status of the state of emergency, citizenship rights, bioethical politics, and the challenges of European integration. His writings have shaped not only academic but also wider public debates from the 1950s to the present, to an extent that few European scholars can match. As a federal constitutional judge and holder of a trusted public office, Böckenförde has influenced the way academics and citizens think about law and politics. During his tenure on the Court, several path-breaking decisions for the Federal Republic of Germany were handed down,
including decisions on the deployment of missiles, the law on political parties, the regulation of abortion, and the process of European integration.
Author Biography
Mirjam Künkler, Research Professor, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Tine Stein, Professor of Political Theory, University of Göttingen, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Professor Emeritus, University of Freiburg
