Dieter Grimm is one of Germany's foremost scholars of constitutional law and theory with a high international reputation and an exceptional career. In this biographical interview, Grimm gives insights into his experience and shares background information that cannot be found in legal textbooks or treatises.

Dieter Grimm is a professor of public law at Humboldt University Berlin and a Permanent Fellow and former Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). Besides his affiliation with Humboldt University, he has also taught at the Yale Law School in the United States and was visiting professor at many other universities around the world. From 1987 to 1999 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. He has published extensively on constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, and European law.

• I. Biographical Imprints - Childhood Home, War, School, Career Hopes


• II. University


• III. Paris, America, and PhD


• IV. Max Planck Institute and Habilitation


• V. Bielefeld


• VI. Karlsruhe: From Scholarship to Practice


• VII. The uproar about the Constitutional Court's Jurisprudence


• VIII. Fundamental Rights Doctrine and the Culture of Deliberation


• IX. Experiences on the Court


• X. Europe


• XI. International Constitutionalist: Renewed Ties with the U.S.


• XII. Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Study


• XIII. Public Intellectual


• XIV. From Outsider to the Center of Constitutional Scholarship