Projects
The concept of proportionality and the fundamental right to the protection of personal data in the European Union Ghent University
The protection of personal data – now a distinct fundamental right in the EU – has recently witnessed a more frequent recourse to ‘proportionality’. 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 protection law ...
Refining the scope of application of EU fundamental rights in light of the diversification of EU law sources KU Leuven
The European Union protects fundamental rights through a variety of sources, including the Charter of fundamental rights and the general principles of Union law enshrined by the Court of Justice. However, unlike other national or international legal systems, EU fundamental rights do not bind the Member States in all situations. A link to EU law must be demonstrated in order to be able to invoke these rights before the Court of Justice of the ...
Personhood, Fundamental Rights, and the Animal: Resolving the Principle-Provision Inconsistency of Positive Law through Global Animal Rights Law. University of Antwerp
(How) Can International Criminal Law Safeguard Fundamental Human Rights? The Denial of the Rights to Fair Proceeding as International Crimes KU Leuven
Dystopian forms of justice are not a fantasy. States and non-state armed groups frequently employ unfair trials as a ‘weapon’ of war. In wartime, individuals charged for having committed a crime are therefore deprived of fundamental judicial guarantees or denied a trial altogether. Such infringements often culminate in indefinite detention and executions. For example, eastern Ukraine and Crimea have recorded serious violations of the right to ...
The impact of European fundamental rights on the treatment of the taxpayer in the Belgian Tax Procedure Hasselt University
Judicial protection in the EFTA pillar of the EEA: Reconcilable with the enhanced status of fundamental rights in the EU post-Lisbon? Ghent University
The EEA Agreement extends the EU internal market to Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. In these countries, judicial protection is provided by the EFTA Court. Questions arise, however, regarding the adequacy of this protection in light of the European Convention on Human Rights and EU Charter and how the EU can justify this (more) limited protection as rule of law promotor.
Social work and human rights: exploring the development of a fundamental rights approach as a lever for community building HOGENT
The place of national courts in the changing fundamental rights landscape of the European Union Hasselt University
The limits of personal autonomy: reproductive rights as case study for a research into the conditions of a fundamental principle of law KU Leuven
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 ...