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Dieter Grimm LL.M. \u201965, a former justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, returned to Harvard Law School on September 18 to speak on \u201cCourts under Political Pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justice Grimm served as a justice on the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1987 to 1999. He is a permanent fellow and former rector at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, and a professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University of Berlin. Grimm has been a visiting professor at HLS and at universities around the world. His recent publications include\u00a0Constitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2016)\u00a0and Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political Concept\u00a0<\/em>(Columbia University Press, 2015). An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he holds a law degree from the University of Frankfurt and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n Read more on Harvard Law Today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" photo:\u00a0 Lorin Granger Dieter Grimm LL.M. \u201965, a former justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, returned to Harvard Law School on September 18 to speak on \u201cCourts under Political Pressure.\u201d Justice Grimm served as a justice on the … Continue reading