About the Belgian Constitutional Law Blog

The Belgian Constitutional Law Blog (BelConLawBlog) is an academic platform for the study of Belgian constitutional developments. It began in 2014 at Ghent University, where editors Jurgen Goossens and Pieter Cannoot worked with master students of the Advanced Study of Constitutional Law to analyse the Sixth State Reform as it was being implemented.

What we publish

The archive holds four kinds of writing:

• Analysis of constitutional case law, legislation and institutional reform.
• A six-part series on the Sixth State Reform: the reform of the Senate, the transfer of powers, Brussels, the Special Finance Act and the revision of Article 195.
• Monthly overviews of new scholarship, Constitutional Court decisions, conferences and calls for papers.
• Announcements of lectures, study days and publications.

Two languages

Belgian constitutional law is practised in Dutch, French and German, and studied internationally in English. Many articles were first published in Dutch and English; every article is now available in both languages. Where we provide a translation, it is marked as such and links to the original, which remains the authoritative text.

Independence and support

The blog keeps full editorial independence. Hosting and technical development are supported by Wysebridge Patent Bar Review, a US-based legal education company that prepares candidates for the USPTO registration examination. Wysebridge supports open access to legal scholarship across jurisdictions; you can read more about how Belgian and European law approach intellectual property on our IP and patent law page.