How Not to Become Hegemonial Self-preservation through Verfassungsdogmatik Sonnevend, Pál Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-10-13 eng
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 I have to start with a confession: if it was not for the Bundesverfassungsgericht and German legal scholarship, I would have not become the lawyer I am today. Writing a PhD in the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg, attending classes by giants of German public law taught me to appreciate the famous German “Rechtsdogmatik”, a term that can only be poorly translated by “legal doctrine”. The conceptual sophistication and clarity of thoughts, the persuasive power of reasoning, the attention for details and the elegance with which the lack of answers to certain questions is concealed created for me an aura of infallibility and self-evident truth. I also remember my condescending attitude when I met foreign guests in the Max-Planck Institute who were not familiar enough with this constitutional language, or even dared to challenge some of its conclusions. Being inside this world felt reassuring, safe and also elevating. After wandering through the legal education of post-communist Hungary I finally saw the light. CC BY-SA 4.0 Sonnevend, Pál funded by the government German Federal Constitutional Court Hegemony Verfassungsdogmatik 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/how-not-to-become-hegemonial/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20201013-113337-0 201013 10.17176/20201013-113337-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)