Pieter Cannoot

Pieter Cannoot is academic assistant within the research group of (Belgian and international) constitutional law. He studied law at Ghent University, graduating summa cum laude. During his studies, Pieter worked as student-assistant at the Ghent European Law Institute (GELI).

Pieter assists Prof. Dr. Johan Vande Lanotte in the Bachelor course of Constitutional Law and the Advanced Study of Constitutional Law. He also supervises bachelor and master theses.

His PhD research focuses on the right to the autonomous experience of sex, sexual orientation and gender (identity). In this regard, he studies how a constitutional right to individual autonomy could better protect the legal status of LGBTIQ persons, as well as to what extent the Belgian legal system could become gender indifferent.

Pieter is founding editor of the Belgian Constitutional Law Blog.

• Academic Assistant, Department of Constitutional Law and Human Rights Centre (2014 – ongoing)

University Degrees

• Master of Laws in Law, Ghent University, 2014 (greatest distinction).
• Bachelor of Laws in Law, Ghent University, 2012 (greatest distinction).

• Practical exercises constitutional law, Ghent University
• Advanced Study of constitutional law, assisting Prof. Dr. Vande Lanotte, Ghent University
• Constitutional Law, assisting Prof. Dr. Vande Lanotte, Ghent University

• ‘Prize for best student bachelor and master combined’ during the Law Studies, awarded by Ghent University, 2014

• Co-founder and editor of the Belgian Constitutional Law Blog.

• Belgian constitutional law
• Comparative constitutional law
• Human rights law
• European law