Handbook of Constitutional LawGerman Constitutional Law from a Transnational Perspective

该研究项目旨在全面介绍德国宪法，从跨国的角度关注《基本法》及其发展。该手册应提供德文和英文两个版本(大约1500页)。这本书不是概括德国的宪法学说，而是从一个具体的跨国视角对德国宪法进行自我反省的分析和观察，从而将其融入国际宪法话语。因此，本文将运用比较法和宪法理论的功能方法对德国宪法法理体系进行分析。这本手册面向德国和外国读者，并将促进不同宪法秩序之间的跨国宪法对话。德国读者将受益于一位距离较远、深思熟虑的观察者对宪法的看法，这在德国法律理论下迄今并不常见。这本手册将把德国宪法置于其跨国、比较和理论的背景下，并与西方自由主义宪政传统中的其他法律模式和监管方法对峙。外国读者将从一个新的角度获得关于德国宪法的信息，因为这本手册将在比较、社会、历史、政治和理论背景下描述宪法原则。这应该会促进人们更深入地了解宪法及其法律-政治机构在德国是如何运作的。

The research project aims at a comprehensive presentation of of German constitutional law, which focuses on the Basic Law and its development from a transnational perspective. The handbook shall brought out in a German and an English edition (size about 1500 pages). Rather than summarizing German constitutional doctrine, the book shall self-reflectively analyse and observe German constitutional law from a specifically transnational perspective and, thus integrate it in an international constitutional discourse. Accordingly, the body of German constitutional law and doctrine will be analysed using functional methods of comparative law and constitutional theory. The handbook addresses German and foreign readers alike and will stimulate a transnational constitutional dialogue between different constitutional orders. German readers will benefit from a distanced and reflective observer's perspective on constitutional law, which is hitherto uncommon under German legal doctrine. The handbook will place German constitutional law in its transnational, comparative, and theoretical contexts and confront it with to other legal models and regulatory approaches within the western-liberal traditions of constitutionalism. The foreign reader will obtain information on German constitutional law from a novel perspective, as the handbook will describe constitutional doctrine in comparative, social, historical, political, and theoretical context. This should promote a deeper understanding of how the Constitution and its legal-political institutions operate work in Germany.