Dieter Grimm is a professor of public law at Humboldt University Berlin and a Permanent Fellow and former Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). Besides his affiliation with Humboldt University, he has also taught at the Yale Law School in the United States and was visiting professor at many other universities around the world. From 1987 to 1999 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. He has published
extensively on constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, and European law.