Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930–2019) was a Professor of Public Law at the University of Freiburg. He served as a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1983–1996) and made pathbreaking contributions in the fields of constitutional history, constitutional dogmatics, philosophy of law, the status of natural law and canon law in modern democracy, and to democratic theory.

Michael Hollerich teaches theology at the University of St. Thomas.

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