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  1. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – June 2015

    Reading list for June 2015: Belgian constitutional law scholarship and Constitutional Court judgments finding a violation, incl. the data retention act.

    Ruth Delbaere
  2. Analysis

    We the People: more direct democracy after the sixth state reform?

    Article 39bis allows regional non-binding referendums since the Sixth State Reform. Should citizens also vote on constitutional amendments under article 195?

    Katrien Bernard, Niels De Bruyn, Carl Kyndt, Jurgen Goossens e.a.
  3. Sixth State Reform

    New article: Belgian federalism after the sixth state reform

    Article in Perspectives on Federalism on Belgian federalism after the Sixth State Reform: power transfers, Senate reform and regional fiscal autonomy.

    Jurgen Goossens, Pieter Cannoot
  4. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – May 2015

    Reading list for May 2015: scholarship on Belgian federalism after the Sixth State Reform, Constitutional Court judgments finding a violation, and news.

    Juan Benjumea Moreno
  5. Analysis

    First, critical reflections on the introduction of a second reading of legislation in the Chamber

    Critical evaluation of the second reading of bills in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, introduced by the Sixth State Reform after the Senate reform.

    Laurens Dumoulin, Rutger Goeminne, Karen Van Esbroeck, Jurgen Goossens e.a.
  6. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – April 2015

    April 2015 reading list: Belgian constitutional law scholarship, Constitutional Court judgment 49/2015 on the Aliens Act, and upcoming public law conferences.

    Juan Benjumea Moreno
  7. Analysis

    Appointment of mayors in the municipalities around Brussels: the carousel keeps spinning after the sixth state reform

    The Sixth State Reform's new procedure for appointing mayors in the Brussels facility municipalities and why the Linkebeek case keeps the carousel spinning.

    Adriaan De Leeuw, Alexander Roels, Jurgen Goossens, Pieter Cannoot
  8. Monthly Overview

    Monthly Overview – March 2015

    Reading list for March 2015: Belgian constitutional law scholarship, books and Constitutional Court judgments finding a violation of the Constitution.

    Pieter Lavens
  9. Analysis

    Shedding light on the double aspect doctrine

    Interview with Professor Jürgen Vanpraet on the double aspect doctrine in the Belgian division of powers, exclusivity and the Constitutional Court's case law.

    Jürgen Vanpraet, Evelien Verstraeten