Dieter Grimm was born in Kassel, Germany, on May 11, 1937. After completing school in Kassel, he studied law and political science in Frankfurt (M), Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Harvard. From 1967 until 1979 he worked as a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt. From 1979 until 1999 he was Professor of Public Law at the University of Bielefeld. He was on leave from the university from 1987 to 1998 when he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2000 on he has been Professor of Public Law at Humboldt University Berlin. Simultaneously he has been a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, whose Rector he was from 2001 to 2007. He held visiting professorships at many universities all over the world, among them NYU, Harvard and for altogether 15 years the Yale Law School. He received six honorary degrees, was decorated by the President of the French Republic and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Academia Europaea, the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Science. Publications, many of them translated in various languages, concern constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional history and European law.
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