Interview

Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law

23 May 2024

(0:13 h)

Interview

Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law

Can federations be stable? Should political orders last forever and constitutions be permanent?

75 years ago, the German Basic Law came into force. 

In this GHIL podcast interview, Research Fellow for Modern History Pascale Siegrist and PR Officer Kim König talk to Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Chair in Political Theory and History of Political Thought at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, about her research on historical debates surrounding the introduction of the German Basic Law and the durability of federal constitutions.

Don’t miss Eva Marlene Hausteiner's accompanying GHIL Lecture “Should Federations be Made to Last?”.