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Language rights, policies and practices in linguistically diverse societies: are current legal orders addressing the needs and concerns of persons belonging to language minorities as well as those of the administration? University of Antwerp

Jan Velaers
Government and Law
Several fields, in which linguistic challenges generated by linguistic diversity occur, have received considerable attention in the scientific literature. Studies on the interactions between the administration and allophones3 within the current linguist diversity are however rather limited, despite the fact that several sources indicate that the existing language laws are experienced as difficult to implement in practice. The importance of the ...

Manifest disproportionality as a review criterion in the case law of the Belgian Constitutional Court Ghent University

Toon Moonen
Department of European, Public and International Law

The Constitutional Court often adopts as a standard that it will only find the legal norms it adjudicates unconstitutional when they contain U+201CmanifestlyU+201D disproportionate policy measures. In this project, I propose to investigate, based on international theory and the case law of the Court, what this deferential attitude precisely means and under which conditions the Court (legitimately) relies on it.

Sabbatical 2018-2019 Prof. Christiane Stallaert. University of Antwerp

Christiane Stallaert
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
My research as a hispanist and anthropologist focuses on social and political themes (nationalism, interethnic and interreligious society, migration, human rights, historical memory), and its interrelations. The cultural border is central to my work, which is inter- and transdisciplinary, at the intersection of Anthropology, Translation Studies and History. Geographically, my research domain is in Spain and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Andean ...

Human rights accountability implications of mobilizing private actors for public objectives: a study of multi-stakeholder partnerships in education in the post-2015 development era. University of Antwerp

Wouter Vandenhole
Law and Development
The research seeks to explore the human rights accountability implications of mobilizing private actors in the post-2015 development era by inspecting multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in education. Private actors are increasingly infused into global policy-making and implementation as a proposed panacea to governance gaps through hybrid public-private engagements. In this vein, being formalized and supported under the 2030 Agenda and the ...

BECAREFUL: BEst interests interpretation in Child Abduction cases: an exploration into REsolving Fragmentation Under different international Legal regimes. University of Antwerp

Thalia Kruger
Law and Development, Government and Law, Personal Rights and Property Rights
According to children's rights law, as a subsection of human rights law, the best interests of the individual child must be a paramount consideration in all matters involving a child. According to private international law, when a parent wrongfully takes a child from one country to another, the general approach to the best interests of the child is that that child must be speedily taken back (unless exceptional circumstances can be proved). The ...

Privacy, ethical regulatory and social no-gate crossing point solutions acceptance. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul De Hert
Queen Mary University of London, Metajuridica
The increasing number of travellers crossing European borders is putting a mounting pressure on the everyday handling of border checks. On one side, border control authorities have to process a higher number of checks in an increasingly reduced amount of time to avoid congestion or cope with limited resources. As a consequence, the experience of both European and third country travellers is deteriorating due to the extra time they have to spend ...

Sustainable development and human rights law (SUSTLAW). University of Antwerp

Wouter Vandenhole
Law and Development
The relationship between law and development continues to be a key issue of debate both in academia and policy circles. The concept of Law and Development is not one-dimensional and has been closely linked with the reality of poverty and unsatisfied basic needs. Although this field focused initially on the economic dimension, as development was mostly seen as a consequence of (if not synonymous to) economic growth, the human and cultural ...

Sabbatical - Wouter Vandenhole University of Antwerp

Wouter Vandenhole
Law and Development
Sustainable development in no-growth economies: socio-economic human rights revisited (SUSTRIGHTS) - No-growth, be it cyclical (resulting from financial and/or economic crises) or structural (related to sustainable development), necessitates a paradigmatic shift in the understanding of socio-economic human rights and in the role assigned to human rights in development (cooperation). This project researches how to factor in the consequences of ...

Popular Culture on Trial: European Human Rights as Agents of Cultural Change or Preservation? KU Leuven

Koen Lemmens
Research Unit Public Law

Cultural traditions (such as Zwarte Piet, Epiphany) and elements of popular culture ( Tintin, the Smurfs, public advertising) are growingly contested on account of the discriminatory stereotypes (in terms of racism, sexism, ...) they may spread and possibly confirm. The research will critically assess how complaints about these traditions and cultural elements are dealt with in various European States, both in courts and in the societal ...