[Editors' Note: This review originally appeared as Markus Dirk Dubber, Book Review - David P. Currie, The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, 40 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 107 (1996). It is republished here with the permission of the editors of the American Journal of Legal History and the author.]Google Scholar

1 See David P. Currie, The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First One Hundred Years 1789–1888 (1985); Currie, David P., The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century 1888–1986 (1990).Google Scholar

2 The critical commentary on the growing significance of judicial opinions by Roman Herzog, erstwhile Chief Justice of the German Constitutional Court, is an example. See Roman Herzog, Art. 20, in 2 Grundgesetz: Kommentar 209 n.2, 222 (Maunz and Dürig eds., 1993).Google Scholar

3 See generally Rolf Lamprecht, Richter contra Richter (1992).Google Scholar

4 BVerfGE 88, 203 (1993).Google Scholar