The growing global relevance of German law calls for this entirely new, introductory survey of German law and legal culture for students, and as a reference for judges, practitioners and policy-makers. The textbook provides lively and informed coverage of German legal history and contemporary German legal and political institutions and practices.

Russell A. Miller is the J. B. Stombock Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University. He was the head of the Max Planck Law Network from 2020 to 2022. He is a respected scholar and teacher of comparative law, with an emphasis on German constitutional law. He is a two-time recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and he in 2021 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize for his work on German law. He is the co-author of The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany (3rd edition, 2012). In 2002 he graduated with a LL.M. from the University of Frankfurt. From 2000 to 2002 he was a judicial clerk (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the German Federal Constitutional Court. He is the co-founder and long-serving editor of the German Law Journal.

1. Introduction: encounters with foreign legal cultures; 2. The civil law tradition; 3. Germany's plural legal culture; 4. Foundations I: legal history; 5. Foundations II: political and legal institutions; 6. Foundations III: legal education, legal method, legal actors; 7. German private law - the civil code; 8. German public law - constitutionalism; 9. German public law - administrative law; 10. German criminal law; 11. German procedural law; 12. The Europeanization of German law; 13. Epilogue: Germany's German law.