nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220822-181828-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220822s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220822-181828-0 doi eng 342 23 Morijn, John Author aut The Language of Power - Moving beyond restrictive conceptions of constitutional law scholarship Morijn, John Verfassungsblog 2022-08-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Professor Tarunabh Khaitan’s ICON editorial on “scholactivism”, as well as his September 2021 Letten Prize lecture on "The Role of the Legal Scholar in the World" are unsettling. Although stepping aside and standing by may feel satisfactorily pure and avoids tensions as well as personal attacks in a post-truth world, it is not neutral – simply because any activity relating to constitutional law, active or passive, is inevitably a statement about politics and power. Instead, constitutional lawyers have a professional obligation to explicate in the public debate what forms the implicit basis of all conversation between them: the very relevance of the law to power and politics. CC BY-SA 4.0 Activism Power Scholarship Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-language-of-power/ raw object