Wertordnung und Verfassung

Since the Second World War the classical liberal model of constitutionalism has been increasingly challenged by a competing conception which perceives the constitution and the bill of rights as a "normative order of values"". This new approach to constitutionalism probably found its first expression in the early jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional Court. Thilo Rensmann retraces the development of this new paradigm of modern constitutionalism from the seminal "Lüth" decision to the current challenges posed by transnational constitutionalism.