Constitutional and Political Theory

Introduction, Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein

1. Political Theory of the State
Introduction to Part 1, Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein

I: Security and Self-Preservation before Justice: The Paradigm Shift and Transition from a Natural-Law to a Positive-Law Basis in Thomas Hobbes' System of Law (2004)
II: The Concept of the Political: A Key to Understanding Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory
III: The State as an Ethical State - Der Staat als Sittlicher Staat (1978).
IV: The Repressed State Of Emergency. The Exercise of State Authority in Extraordinary Circumstances (1978)

Part 2. Constitutional Theory
Introduction to Part 2, Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein

V: The Concept and Problems of the Constitutional State (1997)
VI: The Historical Evolution and Changes in the Meaning of the Constitution - Geschichtliche Entwicklung und Bedeutungswandel der Verfassung (1984)
VII: The Constituent Power of the People: A Liminal Concept of Constitutional Law (1986)
VIII: Constitutional Jurisdiction: Structure, Organization, and Legitimation (1999)

Part 3. Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Principles
Introduction to Part 3, Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein

IX: Critique of the Value-Based Grounding of Law (1990)
X: Fundamental Rights as Constitutional Principles: On the Current State of Interpreting Fundamental Rights (1990)
XI: The Fundamental Rights: Theory and Interpretation (1974)
XII: Protection of Liberty against Societal Power: Outline of a Problem (1975)

Part 4. On the Relationship between State, Citizenship and Political Autonomy
Introduction to Part 4, Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein

XIII: The Persecution of the Jews as a Civic Betrayal (1997)
XIV: State Citizenship and the Concept of Nationality (1995)
XV: The Future of Political Autonomy: Democracy and Statehood in a time of Globalization, Europeanization, and Individualization (1998)
XVI: Which Path is Europe Taking? (1997)

Part 5. Böckenförde in Context
XVII: Biographical Interview with Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (2011)