Projects
Federalism, Nationality and Justice: A Politico-Philosophical Study of the Value of Federalism in the Present Political Constellation. KU Leuven
Between Universal Claims and Local Autonomy: Federalism and non-territoriality as ways of overcoming the tension between universal claims and local preferences KU Leuven
Institutional Choice and the Political Economy of Federalism & European Integration KU Leuven
This dissertation presents five chapters about institutional choice in the area of federalism and European integration. The methods used and the perspective adopted roughly correspond to what is known as “political economy”: the study of politics with methodology from economics (game theory and econometrics), and the study of how economics and politics interact. Substantively, the focus is on the impact of formal political rules in ...
Globalization, Multi-level Governance and Federalism in Patent Law: A Comparative Analysis of Patent Reforms in Europe, the US and Japan University of Antwerp
Research in the field of Globalization, Multilevel Governance and Federalism. University of Antwerp
EU Foreign Relations Federalism. A comparison with the United States, Canada and Belgium. KU Leuven
Federal states and the EU as a federation of states face the problem of forging a coherent foreign policy for an internally differentiated polity. Traditionally, it was believed that federations should act at the international level as one unified actor. Recently federated entities are, however, granted an increasingly important role in external relations. This PhD thesis explores whether and, if yes, to which extent different federal systems ...
Cooperation in research and teaching between the Institute of Federalism and Legal Studies (Ethiopian Civil Service University) and the Ghent University Human Rights Centre Ghent University
The project pursues three goals: joint research (including the organisation of a conference and the publication of an edited volume), cooperation in education and curriculum design (in particular in view of the launch of an LLM programme on human rights)and preparation of larger scale cooperation.
Democracy, Autonomy and Federalism: An Innovative Approach to the Moral Value of Popular Rule. KU Leuven
In my post-doctoral research I will develop an innovative theory of the intrinsic value of democracy. This theory holds that democracy is desirable to the extent that it maximises individual public autonomy (IPA). IPA represents the ability of each person to exert control over the major political, social and economic forces which shape the communal landscape and enable, structure and constrain the exercise of private freedom. In building this ...
Internal legal coordination of de-federalised social security schemes KU Leuven
Within the framework of a broader partnership to study social federalism, this research will address the issue of internal coordination of de-federalised social security schemes.