1. Introduction. – 2. Internal court structure in comparative perspective. – 3. The prominentfigures of the decision-making process. – 3.1. The president of the court. – 3.2. The most prominentmembers of the decision-making panel: The rapporteur judge and the opinion-writer. – 3.3. Nonjudicialoffices: Law clerks and the secretary general.
This working paper is a draft chapter of a book under contract with Routledge Publishing on judicial dissent in European constitutional courts (working title: Judicial dissent in European constitutional courts. A comparative and legal perspective), to be published in 2017.