http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170208-125859 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/von-blinden-maennern-und-elefanten-was-kann-und-sollte-die-rechtswissenschaft-gegen-die-desintegration-europas-tun/ Of Blind Men, Elephants and European Disintegration – What could and what should legal academics do against the “disintegration” of Europe? Mayer, Franz C. ger 2015-03-26 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 In how far is a European law scholar justified, or even obliged to man the barricades, even if only in a metaphorical sense, if and as far as the European Union and European Constitutional Law are in peril? Against the backdrop of clarifying the role of science of European constitutional law in times of European crisis, I would like to deal with the initial question in two separate steps. As a first step, I seek to explore what is behind the process of European “disintegration”. In a second step, I will then look at different levels of challenges that legal science, namely European legal science, is currently facing. It will then become evident that the employment of concepts of disintegration is not considerably more rewarding compared to other approaches.