Projects
Singularity and Responsibility. University of Antwerp
Re-conceptualizing the State-Centric Human Rights Regime: Relational Human Rights Responsibility for EU Cooperative Governance Ghent University
Increasingly, cooperative governance – characterized by indivisible cooperation between private and public actors – detrimentally affect our human rights. Consider the recent examples of Borealis and BASF concerning human trafficking in Belgium, implicating the respective companies, as well as governmental authorities. Consider also, problematic use of privately procured artificial intelligence by the EU and its Member States. Scholarship to ...
Morality and Moral Responsibility. The Strawson-Hart Account and the Responsibility-First Approach KU Leuven
I have two main objectives. (1) To develop a new account, the Strawson-Hart account, of the nature of morality. (2) To present a new approach, the responsibility-first approach, to the study of moral responsibility. I start from the thought that P.F. Strawson’s ‘Freedom and Resentment’, the key text in responsibility theory, cannot be understood without grasping Strawson’s conception of morality. I argue that H.L.A. Hart’s work sheds light on ...
Facing up to the Dictatorial Past: Cultural Memory and the Responsibility for Fascism in post-1990 Italian literature Ghent University
Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor spread tolerance across society. Building on the latest memory studies and historical scholarship, this project contends that the main shortcoming of contemporary memory has been a still too limited conceptualisation of a sense of responsibility for the past. ...
Sabbatical Stefaan Pleysier: Juvenile justice & the concept of responsibility KU Leuven
his sabbatical period is mainly aimed at developing two book projects: (1) an edited volume in the field of Juvenile justice ', and (2) a monograph on the concept of' responsibility 'in the field of juvenile criminology and juvenile justice. The two research stays to be planned are also dedicated to these book projects. Residence at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (11SJ) is scheduled at the beginning of the Sabbath ...
The Problem of Implicit Bias and the Limits of Moral Responsibility. University of Antwerp
Do the EU and relevant national legal frameworks provide for a fair allocation of data control and responsibility in the context of precision medicine? A case study of clinical trials KU Leuven
Clinical research relies on patient participation and the use and (re-)use of sensitive personal data. Moreover, several types of research are heavily dependent on exchange of data between countries (e.g., precision medicine trials), and all health research would benefit from greater, meaningful cross-border collaborations, as shown during the COVID-19 crisis. However, the current legal system for the conduct of cross-border research in the ...
The Problem of Implicit Bias and the Limits of Moral Responsibility. University of Antwerp
Between autonomy and responsibility. Towards minimal mandatory property rules for all stable and intimate relationships? KU Leuven
The choice of two people to enter into a marriage has specific legal consequences. In most legal systems, married couples can to a certain extent regulate their mutual rights and obligations as regards their property by way of an agreement. Nevertheless, legal systems usually also impose a number of mandatory legal consequences, irrespective of the couples’ choice (‘mandatory legal rules’). In recent years, however, more and more couples ...