Verfassungsblog is a discourse platform and forum of debate for constitutionalists in Europe and beyond. We see ourselves as an interface between the scholarly expert discourse and the political public’s demand for informed opinion on topical matters of constitutional law and policy. We welcome article submissions.

If you are interested in submitting a text to Verfassungsblog, please follow the guidelines provided here.

Information for authors

Use of AI Tools

As a general rule, we reject submissions with generic, AI-typical phrasing, as they require a disproportionate editorial effort to bring up to a publishable standard. The number of submissions containing clearly identifiable AI-generated phrasing has risen sharply. In almost all such cases, this affects the precision of the legal argument, the stylistic quality of the text, and the accurate representation of case law and research. Given the high volume of such submissions, we are no longer able to provide individual feedback when rejecting a piece on these grounds.

Authors who use AI tools in preparing their submission must disclose the scope and methodology of that use. This disclosure must specify concretely whether AI tools were used for grammatical proofreading, sentence-level editing, text shortening or summarisation, or as a research tool to generate arguments or substantive content. This disclosure is a required part of the submission and a precondition for editorial review.

Please note that this policy is updated on an ongoing basis.

Open Access and Copyright

Verfassungsblog is and will remain open access. This means that all content is freely available without charge to the user, the author or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they give appropriate credit.
Verfassungsblog’s content is generally published under the Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA. This means that you must give appropriate credit and share the content under a comatible licence unless otherwise indicated. Read more about Open Access and Licensing at Verfassungsblog on our Open Access webpage.

Conflict of Interest Policy

As a general rule, we do not publish articles by individuals who are directly involved in the topic they are writing about in a legal, representative, or advisory capacity. This includes, for example, lawyers or employees of associations or other interest groups.

The same applies to academics who have advised a party involved in the matter – for instance, by providing an expert opinion or participating in legal proceedings.

If you have been professionally involved with the subject of your article, we strongly encourage you to contact us before submitting your post to ensure that your submission is in line with our conflict of interest policy.

Quality Control and Originality

Each submission will be reviewed by Verfassungsblog’s editors and are subject to additional review by Verfassungsblog’s Advisory Board Members if necessary in order to ensure the quality of the content.
Submissions must be original and owned by their authors. The author must disclose if the submission has been previously published, is under review with another publication at the time of submission or is under agreement to be published.

Plagiarism Policy

Authors must not plagiarize in their submissions to Verfassungsblog. We request that authors give credit to the original sources of text, ideas, and pictures. If we spot plagiarized content during our editorial review, we may reject the submission. In case plagiarism becomes apparent only after publication on Verfassungsblog, we will either publish a correction or remove the contribution.

Long-Term Archiving

The content published on Verfassungsblog receives a DOI and is transferred to the disciplinary Open Access repository intRechtDok for long-term archiving (ISSN 2366-7044).