Projects
The creation of autonomous public bodies from a European comparative legal perspective: international impulse, national restraint and how to reconcile these trends. University of Antwerp
Short-termism in corporate governance: a continental European perspective. University of Antwerp
Transnational Perspectives on Swedish Feminism: The European Roots of the Debate on the “Woman Question” in Swedish Periodicals (1858–1908) Ghent University
According to the government website, “Sweden has the first feminist government in the world”. Compared to other European countries, the “woman question,” in Sweden, seems to have been treated in a model fashion. What happened, in the second half of the nineteenth century, to propel a geographically remote, sparsely populated and relatively poor country to this position? This question has not been answered in international scholarship, which ...
Warriors or terrorists? Towards a legal framework for the activities of non-state actors related to armed conflict: international, European and comparative perspectives KU Leuven
Armed conflicts, such as that between Syria and Islamic State (IS) or Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), are primarily governed by humanitarian law, which obliges warring parties to treat each other humanely and aims to enable peace. States increasingly challenge humanitarian law by punishing the activities of non-state actors like IS or the PKK under counter-terrorism law, which may impede peace. Counter-terrorism law, in turn, ...
The organizational development of national interests groups in a European comparative perspective. University of Antwerp
Scientific Integrity in Biomedical Research: a European Perspective KU Leuven
The issues of research integrity and misconduct feature regularly in academic journals and the press. Misconduct within biomedical research is harmful because it threatens the excellence and progression of biomedical research. It can lead for example to wrong medication and damages trust, both the public’s trust in biomedical research and the mutual trust of biomedical researchers. Biomedical research is increasingly interdisciplinary and ...
Gender pension gap in Europe: Determinants and perspectives for the future. University of Antwerp
Transitivity oppositions in a diachronic typological perspective: Labile Verbs in the history of the Indo-European languages Ghent University
Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in the verb, as in the case of English "The door opened" ~ "John opened the door" or Dutch "De sleutel draait in het slot" ("The key turns in the lock") ~ "Jan draait de sleutel in het slot" ("John turns the key in the lock"). Such verbs are called ...