Projects
The creation of autonomous public bodies from a European comparative legal perspective: international impulse, national restraint and how to reconcile these trends. University of Antwerp
The specific character, principles and objectives of European conflict of laws. University of Antwerp
Ownership on the divide: a legal framework for the possibilities and consequences of the division of ownership in Belgium Hasselt University
The Constitutional Court caught between its role as guardian of consensus democracy and deliberative expectations. University of Antwerp
SMEs in EU law and policy. A Bildungsroman about coming of age and/in growing pains. University of Antwerp
The International Actions of Federal Entities: a Comparative Enquiry KU Leuven
Federal states and the EU as ‘a federation of states’ face the problem of forging a coherent foreign policy for an internally differentiated polity. Traditionally, it was believed that federations should act at the international level as one unified actor. Recently federated entities are, however, granted an increasingly important role in external relations. The aim of the project is to uncover to which extent different federal systems have ...
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 ...
Early-Modern Contract Thought and the Late-Scolastic Legacy. KU Leuven
The early seventeenth-century theory of contract was marked by important developments that left profound traces on the early modern law of nations. Especially the work of the Spanish neo-scholastic thinker Francisco Suarez's, De Legibus (1612), is crucial in this context. Suarez's work profoundly influenced prominent early modern theorists such as Grotius or Heineccius. The modern and innovative character of Suarez thought and his ...