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Continuity of civil status for mobile citizens in a diverse European Union: how to ensure through EU law a right balance between freedom of movement, fundamental rights and respect for the competences and national identities of the Member States? University of Antwerp

Johan Meeusen
Government and Law
Within the EU, civil status still is a Member State competence and the pertinent national legislation is marked by divergences rooted in national traditions and values, sometimes even with a constitutional character. This may disturb the continuity of the civil status of mobile Union citizens, who move between the Member States and, as a result of the applicable choice-of-law rules, may become subject to different substantive rules in the ...

The concept of proportionality and the fundamental right to the protection of personal data in the European Union Ghent University

Eva Brems
Department of European, Public and International Law

The protection of personal data U+2013 now a distinct fundamental right in the EU U+2013 has recently witnessed a more frequent recourse to U+2018proportionalityU+2019. Proportionality constitutes a prime consideration to determine if and how much of an interference with a non-absolute human right can ever be legally allowed, or if and how the said right can ever be accommodated with a conflicting right. While proportionality in EU data ...

(How) Can International Criminal Law Safeguard Fundamental Human Rights? The Denial of the Rights to Fair Proceeding as International Crimes KU Leuven

Michele Panzavolta
Leuven Institute of Criminology, Institute for International Law

Dystopian forms of justice are not a fantasy. Today, states and non-state armed groups all around the world frequently employ unfair trials and arbitrary detention as a formidable weapon, both in armed conflicts and to consolidate power. The direct result of these serious infringements of procedural human rights is the loss of liberty or life for thousands of people, namely indefinite incarceration, executions or extra-judicial killings. For ...

The limits of personal autonomy: reproductive rights as case study for a research into the conditions of a fundamental principle of law KU Leuven

Marie-Claire Foblets
Research Unit Public Law

Scientific developments within medically assisted procreation generate more and more possibilities for prospective parents. One of these new techniques is pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), which enables the screening of embryos, not only for genetic defects, but also other traits, like gender or eye colour. The perfectibility of man slowly becomes apossible reality in this way.

The central question of this research is ...

CleanH2 – Fundamental Research in Solar-driven Hydrogen Generation using Earth-abundant Catalysts and Durable Hydrid Perovskites as Light Absorbers. Hasselt University

Dirk VANDERZANDE
Environmental Economics, Engineering Materials and Applications, Materials Physics, Materials Chemistry
CLEANH2 will address the critical issues to make hydrogen production via solar-driven water splitting efficient and affordable. CLEANH2 is a cooperative and interdisciplinary basic research project with the common objective to contribute greatly to a fundamental understanding of how to improve the efficiency and stability of solar-driven water splitting processes and to use this knowledge to create major breakthroughs notably in affordable ways ...

Unity in diversity of European Health Care systems - A fundamental legal perspective on common values, organizational and financial principles. University of Antwerp

Freek Louckx
Government and Law
From a policy point of view, further European integration in the field of health care is advocated. But in order to make that shift, a thorough understanding of the existing similarities between the health care systems organized by the Union Member States is required. Unfortunately, however, that insight has not yet been provided by scientific research: a fundamental legal scientific study exploring the common legal bases of European health ...

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

Paul Schoukens
Institute for Social Law, Institute for European Law

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, ...

Law in action: (how) does the right to housing work (out)? University of Antwerp

Bernard Hubeau
Government and Law
This project seeks to answer crucial questions about the effects of fundamental rights in practice, in particular with regard to social rights (also called socio-economic rights). Are social rights meaningful in practice? What is the significance of invokability and effectiveness of fundamental rights? Is the law indeed looking for a new way to deal with fundamental rights and why is this the case? Of course, the existence of fundamental rights ...

Identifying and defining a 'chilling effect' on the right to freedom of expression Ghent University

Dirk Voorhoof
Department of Communication Sciences

The aim of this research project is to bring legal and conceptual clarity on how to identify a 'chilling effect' in relation to freedom of expression as guaranteed under Article 10 of the European Human Rights Convention. Apart from an in depth analysis of the case law in Europe and the US, interviews and surveys will be conducted with actors involved in the decision making processes on freedom of expression and in practising freedom of the ...