Pieter Cannoot

Ghent University | UGhent ·  Department of Public Law

Over the last decade, trans rights and gender variation as legal and a human rights issues have been high on the international and national agendas. Improved registration of and attention for gender variation and gender incongruence is accompanied by attention for the often far-reaching requirements that trans persons have to comply with in order t...

This paper aims to explore how pervasive constructions regarding a person's sex and gender identity in society and law limit the human rights of persons with variations of sex characteristics. Societal culture promulgates a binary (male/female) gender ideal which includes standards of normality for our bodies. People who do not easily fit these cul...

p> It is commonly accepted that gender matters (whether cisgender, transgender/trans*, gender non-binary, genderfluid, gender queer, agender, or other) and many are raising awareness about the fact that gender always seems to matter. That gender matters, and always matters, does not necessarily mean, however, that gender needs to be authenticated o...

Over the last decade, trans rights and gender variation as legal and human rights issues have been high on the international and national agendas. Improved registration of and attention for gender variation and gender incongruence is accompanied by attention for the often far-reaching requirements that trans persons have to comply with in order to...

On November 27, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter the ECtHR or the Court) delivered a judgment in the case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia . The judgment is one of the latest episodes in a series of applications launched by well-known Russian LGBT+ activist Nikolay Alekseyev. In the judgment, the Court unanimously found violatio...

Over the last decade, trans* issues have increasingly gained attention all around the globe. While this increased social recognition has mostly resulted in higher acceptance rates of gender non-conformity, world-wide data show that trans* persons still remain among the most vulnerable groups in society. One of the most pressing issues facing trans*...

The European Court of Human Rights is the human rights monitoring body that has dealt with the largest number of cases related to gender identity and trans* persons. In this regard, it has recognised under Article 8 ECHR both a right to gender self-determination and a positive obligation for the State to adopt a procedure for legal gender recogniti...

Dit proefschrift onderzoekt of een wettelijk kader gebaseerd op (de grondwettelijke erkenning van een recht op) persoonlijke autonomie met betrekking tot geslacht(skenmerken), gender(identiteit/expressie) en seksuele geaardheid de rechtspositie van LHBTIQ+ personen zou verbeteren. Het gaat daarbij in eerste instantie in op de vraag in hoeverre het...

This contribution presents an overview of the Belgian Constitutional Court and its activities during 2016. Two constitutional controversies that were at the forefront of political discussions and attracted much media attention are discussed, namely the separation of powers and the refugee "crisis" as well as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agr...

This paper highlights the most important institutional evolutions of Belgian federalism stemming from the implementation of the sixth state reform (2012-2014). This reform inter alia included a transfer of powers worth 20 billion euros from the federal level to the level of the federated states, a profound reform of the Senate, and a substantial in...

Het Vlinderakkoord over de zesde staatshervorming omvat aanzienlijke bevoegdheidsoverdrachten naar de gemeenschappen en gewesten, een oplossing voor BHV en een substantiële uitbreiding van de fiscale autonomie voor de gewesten. Daarnaast bevat het ook een luik politieke vernieuwing, waarvan een hervorming van het tweekamerstelsel het speerpunt vorm...