nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221013-230611-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221013s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221013-230611-0 doi eng 342 23 Steuer, Max Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-7638-5865 ‘You are not alone’ - Judges, Academics, and Politicians at the 5th Congress of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice Steuer, Max Verfassungsblog 2022-10-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier For those who read last week’s news in constitutional justice, it would have been easy to miss the Fifth Congress of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice (WCCJ) on the theme ‘Constitutional Justice and Peace’ that was organized in Indonesia five years after the previous edition held in Lithuania. While featured on the Venice Commission’s website, the Congress was no prominent news in constitutionalist platforms, despite bringing together judges from 94 countries, many of whom are prominent academics in their respective jurisdictions, or even internationally. As this congress shows, constitutional courts can engage with academics, and are well positioned to do so, given they often contain judges with academic careers and experience. Such engagement might empower both institutions to respond to global autocratization more effectively. CC BY-SA 4.0 constitutional court judges Indonesia Legal Academia Venice Commission World Conference on Constitutional Justice Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/you-are-not-alone/ raw object