Projects
Legal culture and language: a study of the linguisticdiscursive aspects of contract law in France, Germany and England from a comparative and historical perspective Ghent University
Comparative law has always been a kind of umbrella concept encompassing different
activities with diverse underlying motives and goals and to that extent, methodological
pluralism is part and parcel of comparative law. In the context of approximation/harmonization initiatives (e.g. EU), scholars in comparative contract law have tended to adopt a (not well elaborated) functionalist approach and limited their research to a mainly ...
Access to environmental information held by the private sector under international, European and comparative law KU Leuven
The current paradigm for democracy and environmental justice rests heavily on the principles of transparency and public participation. Access to information is a precondition for the effective exercise of public participation mechanisms, and when it comes to environmental matters, one can hardly be conceived without the other. Regarding environmental data held by the private sector, companies are increasingly faced with demands for access to ...
International, European and Comparative Labour Law KU Leuven
Reserach covering a variety of issues of international, European and comparative labour law including case law, currently focusing on questions of in-work poverty, platform work, algorithmic management, the social rights of self-employed workers, multi-party work relationships, vocational training systems, and social and labour aspects of the green transition.
Creditor control over the management of financially distressed firms : a comparative law and economic analysis KU Leuven
In the continental legal systems, the management of a financially healthy company is controlled by the majority or reference shareholders. After all, the shareholders have the best incentives to ensure that the company makes a profit and does not become insolvent. When profits are made, the shareholders see an increase in the value of their shares, possibly accompanied by a higher dividend payment. In the event of loss or insolvency, their ...
A Belgian civil procedure approach to non-compensatory goals in tort law KU Leuven
Claimants increasingly rely on extra-contractual liability claims to pursue other goals than compensation (in kind or by way of pecuniary damages). Attention for the multifunctionality of extra-contractual liability law has grown over the past decades. This is clear, for example, in the draft bill regarding the introduction of the extra-contractual liability provisions in the new Civil Code, and is also apparent in Belgian doctrine and even ...
The recent renewal of canonical penal law. A legal-social approach. KU Leuven
The penal law within the Latin Catholic Church is in full evolution.
The new norms concerning the most serious delicts, reserved for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), were promulgated on 30 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II in his Motu Proprio "Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela" (abbreviated as normae SST) and during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI the canon law was further renewed. On 21 May 2010, the CDF issued a ...
Regulate “Big” or “Tech”? The Interface between Competition Law and Data Protection Law KU Leuven
This research aims to clarify the boundary issues of how competition law may interact with data protection law in digital markets (overlap, conflict or independent) and what a proper approach should be established to tackle such interaction within the EU legal framework. Plus, Chinese law will be a supplementary source for legal comparison to facilitate the understanding of these issues, especially on the limitations of the anticipated ...