Projects
The capacity of the Council of Europe and the European Union to safeguard the independence of domestic judiciaries. The Hungarian case. KU Leuven
The thesis will look at the capacity of European Union and Council of Europe mechanisms to prevent and address rule of law backsliding in their member states.
Digital education and copyright. University of Antwerp
Voicing youth at social risk. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The goal is to investigate with and from the perspective of young people who are in social exclusion situations (such as refugees, migrants with or without papers, ...
Effects on pupils of prevention and security policies in schools. KU Leuven
In a context where schools adopt more and more preventive and security policy and measures, this research project aims at finding out which effects these policies produce on pupils. At first, the prevention and security policy of a selection of schools were analyzed and categorized according to prevention and security typologies. In the same schools a survey took place to assess the potential effectiveness of the policies adapted by the ...
The right to silence of corporations KU Leuven
The research topic of this doctoral dissertation is the privilege against self-incrimination of corporations. The issue is highly relevant in view of the importance of corporations in society and the increasing use of corporate criminal liability. The research and theory on the substantive criteria of the criminal responsibility of corporations is not paralleled by corresponding research into the fair trial rights of corporations as criminal ...
Legal research for the purposes of the execution of the ESA project ITT AO 1-7041/11/F/MOS. University of Antwerp
Analysis of the situation of persons with disabilities in Belgium with regard to their fundamental rights as guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. University of Antwerp
Governance as Responsibility: Member State Participation in International Financial Institutions and the Quest for Effective Human Rights Protection. KU Leuven
The law of international responsibility, as currently devised, does not offer a consistent analytical framework to assess member State participation in International Organisations. Inescapably, this state of affairs runs counter to an effective human rights protection and hampers individual attempts to obtain reparation for damage, or the risk thereof, caused by wrongdoing member States.
Using International Financial ...