Projects
Rethinking Property Through Environmental Duties: Towards a Further Integration of Environmental, Constitutional and Property Law? KU Leuven
This doctoral research concerns the relationship between the right to property and environmental protection. This relationship serves as a starting point to analyse how property rights are affected by environmental regulations and to consider the role property rights can play in achieving a more sustainable use and protection of natural resources. More specifically, the potential of environmental constitutionalism will be analysed as a way to ...
Manifest disproportionality as a review criterion in the case law of the Belgian Constitutional Court Ghent University
The Constitutional Court often adopts as a standard that it will only find the legal norms it adjudicates unconstitutional when they contain “manifestly” 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.
Tenure track appointment in Constitutional and Administrative Law Ghent University
Tenure track appointment in Constitutional and Administrative Law (Toon Moonen)
Constutional European Criminal Law after Lisbon and Stockholm. In search of a Foundation Respectful of Human Rights. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1. The development of a new framework for European constitutional criminal law based on the identification of shared and indispensable European principles and guarantees governing criminal law and criminal procedure
2. The development of a workable set of constitutional law criteria to be applied by ...
International Scientific Cooperation: Research cooperation in the framework of Institutional Cooperation with privileged partner institutions: University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas, Havana University, UCI, Cujaï Cuba Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A particular practice of a constitutional dialogue: analysis of the judgments of ordinary and administrative judges following the Constitutional Court's finding of an unconstitutional legislative lacuna University of Antwerp
Comparative constitutional design for divided societies: a model to explain constitutional asymmetries. University of Antwerp
The right to social security in the European Union: a comparative analysis on the basis of the constitutional traditions common to the EU Member States, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. KU Leuven
The outbreak of the financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on national economies worldwide, including those of the member states of the European Union (EU). Several EU member states with financial difficulties received financial support by the EU institutions. In return, they were obliged to reduce public spending and as a result, national social security systems were drastically reformed. Since the financial and economic crisis, ...
Constitutional literacy in the layered legal order. KU Leuven
The goal of this valorisation project is to develop the necessary educational tools that can contribute to achieving a certain level of "constitutional literacy". On the one hand, the promoters write a basic book about the constitution and the normative foundations of society. On the other hand, a digital environment will be developed (website and app). This digital environment will be an important source of documentation on the Constitution ...