Projects
Sound and safe: regulatory practices and harm reduction in the Belgian meat sector KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the regulation of the meat sector and the varying factors that inform monitoring, enforcement and compliance by the sector’s regulators and regulatees. In this study, I have pursued two aims. First, I have examined which rule violations occur in the meat sector and how regulators and regulatees assess these rule violations (a.o. in view of their harmfulness) and respond to them. Second, I have identified and ...
Defence lawyers in the defence. Lawyers' culpable involvement in crime: criminality, criminal investigations and safeguards against abuse KU Leuven
They already popped up in just about every mafia fiction: the lawyers who are so close to the members of criminal organisations that the question arises whether they themselves do not commit criminal acts. During the past few years, however, Belgian and Dutch reality also saw several high-profile criminal proceedings against lawyers who allegedly abused their professional position at the behest or at least in the interest of criminal ...
Disgorgement in private law KU Leuven
An increasing number of tenants participates in the ‘sharing economy’ by using Airbnb to sublet (part of) their accommodation to tourists. Many of them do so in violation of a prohibition to sublet in their tenancy agreement. An aggrieved landlord is entitled in most legal systems to evict his tenant on this basis (judicial rescission) and to claim compensation for any loss he incurs as a result of the illegal subletting. To the extent his ...
(Un)intended consequences of integrity management interventions: an empirical study in the customs authorities in Belgium KU Leuven
Unintended, unanticipated and unwelcome consequences of public administration reforms can diminish, undermine or even reverse the intended reform benefits. That might also be the case for reforms intended to strengthen public integrity or reduce corruption. Employees may become too afraid to risk doing anything wrong or may become paralyzed, with good reason, by the idea that making a mistake might lead to an investigation of their integrity. ...
The Fate of False Memory KU Leuven
Intentional forgetting has been linked to victims of sexual abuse who attempt to (i) try to forget the abuse, (ii) not think about the abuse, or (iii) even falsely deny the abuse. However, despite intentionally forgetting, people are also prone to falsely remember such events. In this regard, for instance, an alleged victim falsely remembering being abused can accuse an innocent person leading to wrongful convictions. At this moment, there is ...