Projects
From the past to the future: A contemporary reflection on the temporal aspects of sovereignty in the philosophy of Benjamin Constant KU Leuven
There seems to be a gap between the commonsensical appreciation of sovereignty and its institutional reality. A sovereign people is supposed to have full legal and political power over itself, yet this collective sovereignty is most often institutionalized in the form of a constitutional and representative democracy. This means that legal and political power are constrained by binding constitutional rights and rules and that decisions are ...
Adverse selection and moral hazard in the credit market : using security interests to reduce credit rationing KU Leuven
The credit market isn’t a regular market. In a regular market, supply and demand are brought together through price mediation. In the credit market, on the other hand, demand far exceeds supply: not everyone who applies for a loan ends up obtaining one. One would think that the price, in this case the interest rate, would simply increase in those circumstances, but this turns out not to be the case, and credit remains scarce, or “rationed”. ...
A conceptual and phenomenological diagnosis of the utopian mentality as a human but fallacious tendency. An investigation of the excesses and the subtle manifestations of the utopian mentality. KU Leuven
Law under the Guise of the Good: An Aristotelian Conception of Legal Authority. University of Antwerp
Contextual privacy and the proliferation of location data. KU Leuven
The public role of art. University of Antwerp
A case of unjustified enrichment? Lessius and the legacy of 16th century moral philosophy in contract law. KU Leuven
Methodology - Study of primary sources in Latin, namely the treatises On justice and law. On Restitution, and On contracts written by the early modern scholastics, with particular attention being paid to the Flemish scholar and consultant Leonard Lessius (1554-1623).