Projects
The principle of proportionality and its criticism. An analysis of the case law. KU Leuven
The proposed research aims to assess the criticism advanced against the principle of proportionality, and to determine how this criticism can be relevant in refining that principle. This will be done through an in-depth analysis of the case law of the two courts at the heart of legal Europe: the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) and the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”).
Today, the principle of proportionality is ...
Landuse, economic expansion and NIMBY. KU Leuven
Climate change and the Darfur crisis Ghent University
Sub-Saharan Africa, including the horn of Africa has witnessed increasing drought over the last years and this has led to a considerable amount of conflicts in that region, but the most devastating, both in terms of loss of life as a result of environmental degradation (food, water, fertile land) and apparently remote but closely related to the degrading environment is the war in Sudan.