Tradition and Transformations: The Rise of German Constitutionalism

Exploring the features of German legal culture and society that have allowed the German constitutional court to establish its extensive domestic authority, this book takes a comparative approach to examine the success of German constitutionalism.

Michaela Hailbronner, Senior Researcher, Institute for Comparative and International Law in Africa, University of Pretoria

Michaela Hailbronner currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative and international Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, on humanitarian and human rights law and constitutionalism in the Global South. She holds two German law degrees (University of Freiburg 2007, Berlin High Court 2009) and an LLM (2010) and JSD (2013) from Yale Law School, for which she was awarded grants by the Zempelin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the German National Academic Foundation. Previously, Michaela Hailbronner worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg and as a legal clerk in the German Foreign Office, in the Federal Department for Economic Cooperation and Development. She also taught constitutional law at Humboldt University.