Projects
Extinctive prescription in private law : integrating factual circumstances KU Leuven
The extinctive prescription rules or statute of limitations are a legal tool to avoid the need for old disputes to be settled by a court. It is a difficult exercise, after all, having to decide a dispute that took place a long time ago. A central problem in this context is evidence. Due to the passage of time, written documents have disappeared or been destroyed, statements by the parties are doubtful or vague, witnesses can no longer be ...
The Role of Agricultural Trade and Trade Policy in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation KU Leuven
Food systems face a dual challenge: they are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are at the same time heavily affected by climate change. Agri-food trade across borders plays an important role in this challenge as food systems are globalized, and both the GHG emission intensity of and climate change impacts on agricultural production vary internationally. The overall research objective of the PhD thesis is to ...
The impact of consumer law on the principle of procedural autonomy: a theoretical and empirical research Ghent University
According to the principle of procedural autonomy Member States of the EU are free to determine
their own national procedural rules in the context of the application of consumer protection law.
However, national procedural rules must meet the principles of equivalence and effectiveness.
These principles imply 1) that national rules of procedural nature must be applied without
distinction, whether ...
David, our Orpheus: Reception, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry. Ghent University
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of
European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the
poetical features of the Psalms, and psalmody (i.e. the practice of singing the Psalms in divine
worship) was a typical exercise of monastic life. The proposed research will analyze how the Greek
Psalms ...
David, our Orpheus: Reception, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry. Ghent University
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the poetical features of the Psalms, and psalmody (i.e. the practice of singing the Psalms in divine worship) was a typical exercise of monastic life. The proposed research will analyze how the Greek Psalms are reflected in various kinds of late ...
On the Trail of Power: The Royal Hunt and the Performance of Sovereignty. University of Antwerp
The puzzle of imagistic cognition University of Antwerp
Mixity in the post-Lisbon EU legal order: A constitutional law assessment in light of the principle of institutional balance Ghent University
Within the scope of its attributed powers, the EU has a competence to enter into international
agreements with third countries and other international organisations. However, the individual EU
Member States have not, as a result, lost their capacity to enter into international agreements.
The Member States losing this competence remains the exception and in most cases there is a
possibility and ...
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in patients with chronic spinal pain: a multi-center randomized controlled trial Ghent University
Innovation objective
The innovation goal of this study is to determine whether the use of CBT-I as an adjunct to pain education and cognition-oriented exercise therapy has a significantly better effect on pain reduction and sleep improvement in patients with spinal pain and insomnia compared to a control treatment.