The Handbook of Constitutional Law (New Edition) comprehensively addresses the current state and perspectives of German constitutional law. It provides reliable information, elucidates European, international, comparative legal, and interdisciplinary contexts, answers the challenges of our time, and offers forward-looking approaches. The handbook encompasses the entire breadth and depth of constitutional law scholarship, serving as a common, unifying forum and thereby creating unity in diversity. Striking a balance between preservation and renewal, it is aimed at both constitutional law scholars and constitutional practice, as well as the international academic community. Volume II, titled "Acquisition and Fundamental Principles of Constitutional Law," includes contributions on the emergence and development of constitutional law, covering topics such as constitutional drafting, formal constitutional amendments, methodology and practice of constitutional interpretation, EU law, international law, and comparative law in constitutional interpretation, as well as constitutional interpretation in foreign constitutional systems and constitutional law as political law. Additionally, the volume features contributions on the major overarching fundamental principles of constitutional law, including human dignity, freedom and equality, the rule of law, separation of powers and proportionality, social state, federal state, and self-administration, as well as the friendliness towards European and international law, the relationship between state and society, and the unwritten prerequisites of the constitution. Order the edition for continuation with a 15% discount on the individual price (delivery upon publication of the individual volumes) with a single order number.