Projects
The impact of legislative amendments on reporting and governance Hasselt University
Physico-chemical characterization and risk assessment of the fraction of nanoparticles in the food additive E174 (silver) in a legislative context. Hasselt University
The possibilities to steer and to coordinate health care-systems and health care-institutions, especially during a pandemic. Comparison of the legislation in six European countries and evaluation of the application of the legislation in Belgium in 2020 an Ghent University
During the Covid-pandemic it was necessary to take measures to raise or surge the capacity of the health care-system and to direct the means of treatment in a more selective way towards the treatment of patients affected with Covid-19. These measures include a reorientation of the healthcare-system, and especially of health care-institutions such as hospitals or elderly care-homes. The reorientation had important implications for patients and ...
Beyond the binary: towards gender-neutral Belgian parentage law? A normative and comparative law research concerning the desirability of gender neutralization of the Belgian civil code Hasselt University
MiPRiS: Multilingualism in Prisons and Reintegration into Society: an interdisciplinary evaluation of Belgian language legislation, policy and practice within a European human rights framework. KU Leuven
Opportunities and Challenges in Biochar Production and Use. A legal Assessment of EU and Belgian-Flemish Law and Policy Recommendations. Hasselt University
Privacy engineering methods for software development KU Leuven
To enhance the security and privacy maturity of software systems, an increasing security and privacy effort is being spent in the early phases of software development. This ongoing paradigm shift (security-by-design and privacy-by-design) demands for novel privacy engineering techniques to underpin the software engineering activities, such privacy threat modeling, architectural privacy analysis and privace-aware design patterns. In this ...
Restrictions on freedom in residential care. A legal status and human rights evaluation KU Leuven
Aim of this research
The aim of this PhD is to investigate the boundaries wherein restrictions on freedom in residential care in Flanders are permitted and to determine whether these boundaries and how they are regulated comply with what is to be expected from a human rights perspective.
Central aspects are the analyses of the human rights and legal status framework that apply to restrictions on freedom in residential ...
The complex relationship between the Belgian public prosecutor and the tax authorities in the fight against criminality KU Leuven
This PhD research analyses the complex relationship between the public prosecutor's office and the tax administration in the fight against crime. In criminal tax procedure, the last decades have been characterised by many successive, sometimes radical legislative changes, which makes it difficult to see the wood for the trees. This thesis aims to answer the question of which relationship the public prosecutor and the tax authorities should ...