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. Toon Moonen in the Bachelor course of Belgian Public Law and the Advanced Study of Constitutional Law. He also assists Prof. Dr. Johan Vande Lanotte in the Bachelor course of Constitutional Law. He regularly gives guest lectures in the Special Study of Law and Gender, taught by Prof. Dr. Eva Brems.

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,Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Department of European, Public and International Law (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
• Belgian Public Law, assisting Prof. Dr. Toon Moonen, Ghent University
• Advanced Study of constitutional law, assisting Prof. Dr. Toon Moonen, 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.
• Co-author of the third party intervention A.D. & A.K. v. Georgia (2019)
• Co-author of the third party intervention Lili Minasyan and Others v Armenia (2018)
• Co-author of the third party intervention R.L. & N.O. v. Russia (2018)

• Belgian constitutional law 
• Comparative constitutional law 
• Human rights law 
• Law and gender