Projects
The Legal Challenges of Protecting Southern Africa’s Large Carnivores: an International Law Perspective KU Leuven
In recent years, the world has experienced a loss of biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Although the international community has reacted to the alarming loss of biodiversity by adopting a number of international and regional treaties aimed at the protection of wildlife, these have so far not been successful in reversing the tide. This study aims to understand the role of international law in the conservation of large carnivores and will ...
Trust in the Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Pilot Study for Empirical Research in Patent Law. University of Antwerp
Sponsoring a European Historical Culture: Representations of the Past Promoted by the Council of Europe and European Union (1954-today) Ghent University
This project traces how the Council of Europe (CoE) and European Union (EU) developed a broad ‘European historical culture’. Since 1954, the Council of Europe has invested in representing European history in schoolbooks, exhibitions, heritage programs, etc. The European Communities (later: EU) increasingly set up similar initiatives from the mid-1980s on. This historical project asks which pasts the CoE and EU represented when, with what ...
DEEP REST : Conservation & restoration of deep-sea ecosystems in the context of deep-sea mining Ghent University
DEEP REST will investigate two remarkable deep-sea ecosystems namely polymetallic nodule fields and hydrothermal vents, including their extended peripheries. Four major areas will be investigated: the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) and the DISCOL Experimental Area (DEA) in the Pacific Ocean for nodule fields and the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (nMAR), and the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) for active and inactive hydrothermal vents. These ...
Development or Displacement? Development Finance Institutions and Development-induced Displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa. University of Antwerp
An EU cooperation in the field of youth justice : mission impossible ? KU Leuven
This research focuses on minors who are involved in cross-border judicial proceedings as a suspect, defendant or offender. Criminal behavior of minors is usually regulated in the Member States by separate rules, which are somehow different from ‘general’ criminal law, i.e. youth justice legislation. However, no specific cooperation mechanisms exist in the EU to deal with cross-border youth justice cases, whereas the EU has developed the ...
DOMINIA enabled. The role of the state, spatial policy systems and the governance of Landed Commons in Europe. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
that Landed Commons (LCs) embody, as alternative land
governance arrangements covering a broad range between public
and private property regimes, to address discrepancies between
increasing land demands and sustainable development. However,
global and European organizations have drawn attention to their
often-limited legal recognition ...