Projects
Human Rights in the European Liberal-Democratic Order : Individual Obligations, Duties and Responsibilities KU Leuven
Even non-lawyers can generally tell you that, as a matter of general principle, rights come with duties and obligations. What they usually mean, is that one cannot simply enjoy the fruits of society, without also contributing to it. The relationship between rights and duties, however, is also a more direct one, and this perspective is more often overlooked: when someone is owed something (when he or she has a right), someone else logically ...
Rethinking International Investment Law and Regional Human Rights Adjudication: A New Frontier for Transnational Judicial Engagement Ghent University
The research aims to identify, map, and understand in depth the new interactions and tensions that have emerged between the regional human rights courts on the one hand (i.e., the European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights) and international investment adjudication bodies on the other hand, in order to provide a methodological tool to foster constructive judicial ...
BOF-TT human rights Hasselt University
Restrictions on freedom in residential care. A legal status and human rights evaluation KU Leuven
Aim of this research
The aim of this PhD is to investigate the boundaries wherein restrictions on freedom in residential care in Flanders are permitted and to determine whether these boundaries and how they are regulated comply with what is to be expected from a human rights perspective.
Central aspects are the analyses of the human rights and legal status framework that apply to restrictions on freedom in residential ...
Future-proofing human rights. Towards a thicker understanding of accountability Ghent University
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. Aside from those criticizing them for quick political gain or for populist reasons, there are scholars and commentators arguing that the human rights system has become too formalized and institutionalized – and thereby too remote from everyday reality – to offer adequate protection to rights-holders, in times when complex and multi-layered human rights challenges are occurring in rapidly ...
Future-proofing human rights. Towards a thicker understanding of accountability Hasselt University
Multistakeholder partnerships, human rights and international law. University of Antwerp
Recharge - Human rights en Eu external relations and internal policies. KU Leuven
From the Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies we coordinate an application for the FP7 Cooperation Work Program. We work together with a number of leading foreign research groups with specializations in human rights, European policy and globalization, given the multidisciplinary focus of the project. Against the background of the complex, globalized world, the initiative aims to investigate changing patterns and future trends in the ...