nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200715-235342-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200715s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200715-235342-0 doi eng 342 23 Jakab, András Author aut Moral Dilemmas of Teaching Constitutional Law in an Autocratizing Country Jakab, András Verfassungsblog 2020-07-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier We often (here and here) talk about the methodological challenges that autocratizing regimes pose to constitutional scholars. However, so far we have not given enough attention to the moral dilemmas that constitutional law scholars face on a daily basis when teaching at universities that are geographically located in autocratizing countries. Constitutional law professors in such regimes are today facing moral dilemmas that they definitely did not sign up for when they originally chose their jobs. Traditionally, in continental legal cultures, university education focuses on doctrinal-conceptual legal thinking (Rechtsdogmatik) which systematizes elements of positive law (legal provisions, judicial decisions) along key concepts, with the help of doctrinal academic writings. All this presupposes a minimum level of the rule of law, and exactly this is fading away in autocratizing countries. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Autocracy Constitutional Law Legal education Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/moral-dilemmas-of-teaching-constitutional-law-in-an-autocratizing-country/ raw object