Putting Courts Under Pressure

Focusing on the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC), one of the most influential courts globally, the book examines how lawmakers repeatedly pressured the GFCC to loosen constitutional constraints on policies.

Philipp A. Schroeder is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He completed his doctoral degree at the Department of Political Science at University College London, supervised by Christine Reh, Lucas Leemann and Tim Hicks. Prior to arriving in Munich, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Law at Umeå University, Sweden. His work has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Law and Courts.