Theorie der Verfassungsgeschichte

This volume aims at a reflection on the task, meaning and methodology of constitutional history as a legal discipline in the Federal Republic of Germany, enriched by interdisciplinary and foreign perspectives. Against the background of contradictory findings, which on the one hand state the scientific marginalisation of the subject, and on the other emphasise its practical importance, historical, philosophical, practical and observational approaches to German constitutional history are brought together in order not only to describe the structural challenges of constitutional historiography, but also to outline first approaches to dealing with them.