http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211221-235952-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/constitutional-democracy-and-the-sound-of-academic-silence/ Constitutional Democracy and The Sound of (Academic) Silence Sandro, Paolo eng 2021-12-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Academic Freedom Constitutionalism Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Many constitutions, and the liberal values that permeate them, constitute the reaction to the mass atrocities, often in the face of academic silence (if not full-blown endorsement). Therefore, a constitutional law scholar that does not denounce attempts to subvert the constitutional order as such is actually sacrificing the pursuit of legal knowledge at the altar of a misguided – and historically damned – attempt at ‘neutrality’. The sound of academic silence, in the face of constitutional regression, is deafening.