75 years of Basic Law in Germany: constitutional highlights and challenges
This year, the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) is 75 years old. It is the foundation of Germany’s democratic constitutional state. After the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989, the Basic Law became the common constitution of a reunified Germany on 3 October 1990. On 4 December 2024 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, Dr Stefan Theil, Associate Professor in Public Law at Cambridge University, Prof. Dr. Johannes Masing, former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, and Lord Mance, former Deputy President of the Supreme Court, will be discussing highlights and challenges to the constitution on Zoom, using prominent law cases as examples.
Dr Stefan Theil is Assistant Professor in Public Law and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge. His research interests are broadly in the field of public and constitutional law, as well as human rights and legal methodology.
Prof Dr Johannes Masing has been a professor of constitutional law at the University of Freiburg since 2007 and was appointed as a judge to the German Constitutional Court in April 2008, where he served until June 2020.
Lord Mance was Deputy President of the Supreme Court. He sat from 1993 to 1999 as a Commercial Judge, was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1999, and to the House of Lords in 2005 where he spent four years as a Law Lord before becoming a Justice of the Supreme Court on its formation in 2009 and its Deputy President in 2017-2018.
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