Projects
Research on the domain of labour law, social security law and law concerning the civil servants. University of Antwerp
Cultural Conflicts in Contractual Relations : Towards a Culturally Sensitive Contract Law KU Leuven
Globalisation and the ensuing flows of immigration have led to a significant cultural diversification of Western societies, including Belgium. Since legal norms are, to a certain extent, based on the cultural standards of dominant societal groups, their sustainability in a multicultural society is being increasingly challenged. Contract law constitutes a particularly interesting legal challenge in multicultural societies. Although parties to ...
Legal transplant of Greek-Roman Law through the Syntagma of Blastares. KU Leuven
Today’s Roman law studies deal with the common legal history of Europe. This fundamental legal historical research gives actual lawyers a better understanding of differences between European legal systems and gives information about the possibilities to coordinate or to unify European law. In the last 40 years legal historians of “Roman law” studied the ius commune latinum in order to understand the West-European law. In the next ...
This research plan covers two ambitious and cutting edge projects that aim at having decisive impact on how policies in the two areas of research are being defined. The first one will be on 'Democracy, Digitalization, and International Law' and th KU Leuven
Official Law and Social Meaning: Same-Sex Marriage as an Instance of Legal Pluralism. University of Antwerp
The Issue of Functional Equivalence in Translating Legal Terminology: Moroccan and Belgian Criminal Law as a Case Study KU Leuven
My project aims to investigate the issue of functional equivalence. This issue matters when rendering a legal text (especially legal terminology) from one legal language into another and from one legal system into another, which is a major concern in the branch of legal translation. This project mainly focuses on analyzing the terminological and conceptual systems of the Moroccan Criminal law instruments (Arabic and French language versions) ...
The administrative power of (cr)immigration officers: A study of discretionary decision-making in the enforcement of (cr)immigration laws Vrije Universiteit Brussel
immigration control – have attracted academic attention over the last
decade. The increasing use of criminal justice tools for controlling
immigration has a profound impact on the lives of people involved.
Empirical research on crimmigration practices has been conducted in
prisons, courts, immigration detention centres, etc., showing that
...
The immigration-federalism nexus: Taking the subnational level seriously Vrije Universiteit Brussel
involved in immigration policymaking, which has resulted in powers
and resources decentralization, and policy development at the
subnational scale .
This project aims at opening the black box of the
vibrant subnational policy variation when it comes to immigration and
immigrant integration matters in 4 federal states (Belgium, Canada, ...
A Secularization of Cultural Politics? Changing Patterns of Cultural-Political Polarization and Voting Behavior in Western Europe, 1981-2008 KU Leuven
Despite claims about religion reasserting itself in the political realm, conflicts about non-religious issues like immigration and law and order appear to have superseded conflicts about religious issues like sexual freedom, abortion, and women’s roles. It is for instance telling that despite their major disagreements, today’s new-leftist and new-rightist political parties agree that religion should be banned from politics. It is also telling ...