An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture

Russell A. Miller is the J. B. Stombock Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University. He was the head of the Max Planck Law Network from 2020 to 2022. He is a respected scholar and teacher of comparative law, with an emphasis on German constitutional law. He is a two-time recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and he in 2021 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize for his work on German law. He is the co-author of The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany (3rd edition, 2012). In 2002 he graduated with a LL.M. from the University of Frankfurt. From 2000 to 2002 he was a judicial clerk (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the German Federal Constitutional Court. He is the co-founder and long-serving editor of the German Law Journal.