Dieter Grimm is Professor Emeritus of Public Law at the HU Berlin, permanent fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and one of the most influential legal scholars in Germany.

From 1987 to 1999 he was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and from 2001 to 2007 he was Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Most recent publications include Die Historiker und die Verfassung. Ein Beitrag zur Wirkungsgeschichte des Grundgesetzes (München 2022), Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit (Berlin 2021), Recht oder Politik? Die Kelsen-Schmitt-Kontroverse zur Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit und die heutige Lage (Carl-Schmitt-Vorlesungen, Band 4, Berlin 2020).

Grimm visited CAS several times; 2024 he gave a talk in the CAS lectures series “Ach Europa!”.

Video of Dieter Grimm's CAS Lecture

30 Jan 2024

Essay published in the CAS Blog

Dieter Grimm, Three Meanings of Constitutional Identity and Their Prospects in the European Union, CAS LMU Blog, 25 March 2024, https://doi.org/10.5282/cas-blog/49