Verfassungsblog

Verfassungsblog is a global forum of scholarly debate at the interface of academy and society. We open up debates in public law – internationally, interdisciplinary and open access. We are independent and community-led. We offer innovative, academic publication formats for reviewed content. Our goal is to ensure maximum speed in our publication process, meeting public demand for academic expertise at its peak – without compromising on quality. As a non-profit organization, we are committed to transparency and fairness.

Founded in 2009 as a “blog” by Max Steinbeis, more than 3,500 experts from all over the world have now published and debate pertinent questions of constitutional law on Verfassungsblog, making their research visible to colleagues and the general public. Each of the 800 articles that Verfassungsblog publishes on average each year undergoes at least one editorial review by one or more members of our 8-person editorial staff and, if necessary, by one or more members of the Advisory Board who have special expertise in specific areas of public and constitutional law. Verfassungsblog‘s content is open for all: The articles published in the blog timeline are Diamond Open Access, i.e. without fees for readers or authors and published under a CC BY-SA license (Open Access Statement). Verfassungsblog‘s publications also meet a high technical quality by providing metadata, DOIs and long-term archiving. Verfassungsblog is a non-profit organization and transparent in term of costs. All revenue is used to maintaining Verfassungsblog‘s operations and high quality.

Where possible, Verfassungsblog uses open source solutions and focuses on data parsimony. For example, only Matomo is used for data analysis on the website, while the team uses Mattermost for internal communication.