Public Law in Germany

A Historical Introduction from the 16th to the 21st Century
A concise and simplified summary and translation into English of the author’s award-winning longer work Geschichte des ffentlichen Rechts. It offers students an introduction to the history of German public law from the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
German public law has been taught in universities since the early 17th century and continues to this day to be a dominant subject in German legal culture, especially in its modern incarnations of constitutional and administrative law, and European and international law. Michael Stolleis’s Public Law in Germany: A Historical Introduction from the 16th to the 21st Century, expertly translated by Thomas Dunlap, provides an account of the fundamental developments in public law that situates current debates in the German Federal Constitutional Court as well as the role of the nation-state in Europe more broadly. It