Publications

The European Commission Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) Scenario Exploration System (SES) is a foresight gaming system developed to facilitate the application of futures thinking to policy-making. It was originally geared at engaging EU policy-makers with scenarios in a facilitated process with a low learning curve. Specifically, the SES was designed to help participants, in less than three hours, to engage in systemic thinking with a long-term ...

The thesis focuses on frameworks of mass data surveillance for predictive policing purposes and questions their lawfulness under EU primary law. Mass data surveillance refers to the general and untargeted processing of various types of personal data initially collected by the private sector, for safeguarding national and public security and combatting serious crime and terrorism. In the EU, such mass data surveillance frameworks engage at least ...

A growing number of studies have examined that social media use and drinking behavior are connected. However, there are several lacunas in the literature that this dissertation addresses. The current work contributes via five distinct studies to the literature. Throughout the studies, the dissertation makes use of various Machine Learning methods to apply the latest methodological developments to the field of social sciences. The first study ...

Referring to an article by Moutéké and Locko, Alioune Fall Badara notes that “the African judges, and thus justice in Africa, would be broken”while Demba Sy points out that “as an institution, justice [in Africa] is in crisis”. Even if these words were spoken almost a decade ago, the reality they convey is still relevant, particularly with regard to Burundi. From an institutional perspective, states courts and tribunals are said to have the ...

http://www.utrechtjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ujiel.cz/ (ISSN 2053-5341)
Entire books still need to be written about Article 16 TFEU, what it does for data protection and what it does not for other fundamental rights recognized in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It is a difficult provision, not only because of its unique standing in EU primary law, its rather vague wordings and its limitations in other provisions and declarations. ...

L’acrylate d’isobornyle (isobornyl acrylate [IBOA]), une substance adhésive récemment élue « allergène de contact de l’année 2020 », est une cause majeure d’allergies de contact provoquées par les capteurs de glucose, les systèmes de gestion de l’insuline et d’autres produits.

A perverse side-effect of our interconnected world is that also crime crosses more and more borders. As a result, judicial cooperation in criminal matters is crucial before and after a criminal sentence. The increased global connectivity also gave rise to new paradigms in social sciences. As such, the paradigm of cosmopolitanism has been researched extensively in social sciences but has been largely neglected in criminology. By analyzing case ...

This dissertation is an exercise in critical legal theory, analysing the role of law in the EU through the concepts of ideology and utopia. The introductory chapter provides an overview and critical discussion of the two concepts, with an emphasis on Paul Ricoeur's novel account which forms the theoretical background of the dissertation. This is followed by four articles which all deal with different aspects of EU law. Article 1, published in ...

Social media influencers (SMIs), defined as ordinary people who gain popularity on social media, are increasingly weaving political issues into their communication, which may be engaging for young followers, but also puts them at risk for misinformation. This thesis has provided important insights into political SMIs, their content, and consequences of exposure to their messages among youth: I delivered detailed and partly comparative (i.e., ...