¹ See, inter alia, the gigantic 2^nd edition of his Verfassungslehre als Kulturwissenschaft, (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998). For the still most comprehensive attempt to explore the roots of the ancient formula of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants', see, of course, Robert K. Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants. A Shandean Postscript. With a foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen (New York: Free Press 1965). ‘OTSOG’ was translated, among others, also into German: R.K.Merton, Auf den Schultern von Riesen. Ein Leitfaden durch das Labyrinth (Frankfurt: Syndikat 1980).Google Scholar

² Held on May 13th and 14^th, 1999, around Häberle's actual birthday, as the second of the Baden-Badener Gespräche.Google Scholar

³ There seems, indeed, a strange neglect of Häberle in the Anglophone world, with comparatively few of his texts translated into English and also no representative of the common law tradition present at the colloquy; this despite his proximity to aspects of the analytical tradition, most notably critical rationalism, and, generally, an approach to legal hermeneutics that should be quite amenable to Anglo-American jurisprudence.Google Scholar

⁴ Next to the substantive contributors and ‘official’ laudatores (as mentioned throughout this review), the general discussion was led, inter alia, by Friedhelm Hufen, Thomas Fleiner, Max-Emanuel Geis, Hasso Hoffmann, Jürgen Schwarze, Hans Zacher, Erhard Denninger, Hans-Peter Schneider, Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum, Alexander Blankennagel, Dian Schefold, Dieter Grimm, Rupert Stettner, Klaus Vogel, Lothar Michael, and Pedro Cruz Villalon. Sadly, one must remark the total absence of female scholars.Google Scholar

⁵ See, Ackerman, Bruce, We the People (2 vols, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).Google Scholar

⁶ Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999.Google Scholar