Projects
A European Private Law for Investment Services? Indirect harmonization of private law by supervistory regulation versus the Draft common frame of reference. Ghent University
the research project identifies and evaluates the coordinating and conflicting interacton between the European harmonization of the supervisory regulation of financial institutions and the diverse aspects and elements of the as such not harmonized legal relationship between these service providers and their clients, with special attention for the influence of the draft common frame of reference on financial provate law.
Opportunities and pitfalls for sustainable materials management in European Law - EU materials law examined. Hasselt University
Processing conflicts between European law and international law at the domestic level - a tax perspective KU Leuven
Both supranational and international actors have a substantial impact on Belgian tax law. The impact of these actors has increased throughout the years, to a point where obligations arising from supranational and international law are no longer fully compatible with each other. In this PhD, this topic will be researched in-depth and options to resolve conflicts will be discussed.
Between European Values, Contestation and Survival: the Changing Law and Politics of a Geopolitical European Union (CHANGE) KU Leuven
The present research project “Between European Values, Contestation and Survival: the Changing Law and Politics of Geo-Political Europe” (CHANGE) investigates the relationship between the ever stronger geostrategic and geopolitical orientation of the European Union (EU or Union) on the one hand, and the effects thereof on law and politics in the multi-level governance of the EU on the other hand. The project starts from the assumption that a ...
The European Union and Party Autonomy in Private International Family Law KU Leuven
A paradigm shift, from State control to self-determination of individuals, is currently occurring within our society. Not so long ago, divorces, same-sex marriages, registered partnerships, birth control or in vitro fertilization were hardly conceivable whereas it is now accessible, or at least debated, in most European countries. This has been largely influenced by the fact that citizens request more liberty to arbitrate their own existence ...
Sabbatical Bert Keirsbilck: Sustainability in European and Belgian business law KU Leuven
1. During this sabbatical period I want to work thoroughly on the further development and substantive interweaving and deepening of my ongoing research in the field of sustainability in European and corporate law. The main goal is to write two English-language top publications that tie together the existing sustainability research (by myself and our PhD students) and emphatically frame it within a broad and new theory about the role of ...
Constutional European Criminal Law after Lisbon and Stockholm. In search of a Foundation Respectful of Human Rights. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1. The development of a new framework for European constitutional criminal law based on the identification of shared and indispensable European principles and guarantees governing criminal law and criminal procedure
2. The development of a workable set of constitutional law criteria to be applied by ...
Evaluating and re-evaluating the developing Common European Asylum System against the backdrop of international refugee law and international human rights standards Ghent University
A key challenge to the EU stems from the progressive rise of migration/refugee flows in the Mediterranean. To manage this, from the 1990s on attempts have been made to develop a common European policy. The research will outline the evolution of the EU asylum policy and assess the various attempts to develop a Common European Asylum System and its compliance with human rights standards, inter alia the Geneva Refugee Convention and the ECHR. ...