Projects
Human rights law should meet administrative law. How the Inter-American Court of Human Rights can expand its impact in Latin America with a better understanding of administrative law KU Leuven
Latin America lives in the age of rights. After a period of military dictatorships that perpetrated massive human rights violations, international human rights law significantly impacted Latin American states’ legal systems in the last 40 years. In particular, the Inter-American Human Rights System’s bodies – the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, “IACHR”) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “IA ...
Re-conceptualizing the State-Centric Human Rights Regime: Relational Human Rights Responsibility for EU Cooperative Governance Ghent University
Increasingly, cooperative governance – characterized by indivisible cooperation between private and public actors – detrimentally affect our human rights. Consider the recent examples of Borealis and BASF concerning human trafficking in Belgium, implicating the respective companies, as well as governmental authorities. Consider also, problematic use of privately procured artificial intelligence by the EU and its Member States. Scholarship to ...
Protecting Victims of Disappearances Committed by Organised Criminal Groups: State Responsibility in International Human Rights Law and the Experiences of Human Rights Practitioners in Mexico. KU Leuven
In this thesis, I explore the protective capacity of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) vis-à-vis victims of disappearances committed by organised criminal groups (OCG), and their relatives. To do so, I combine doctrinal legal research with qualitative research on the particular situation of disappearances in the context of the so-called ‘war on drugs’ in Mexico and the experiences of human rights practitioners engaged with this topic. My ...
The Relationship between International Investment Law and Human Rights Law – Towards a More Balanced Integration of Human Rights in Investment Law KU Leuven
Globalisation caused international law to grow and to become more complex. Besides the increased complexity, the interaction between the international law frameworks intensified. This dissertation evaluates the interaction between international investment law and human rights as this is a pressing issue which will gain ample importance in the future, given that international investment remains to touch upon new heights and human rights law ...
I choose to be a human rights defender: the message from victims of the Chilean dictatorship to future human rights defenders Ghent University
The application concerns a publication for the general public with the message from victims of the Chilean dictatorship for future human rights defenders. Victims and human rights defenders have played a crucial role in the democratic transition after the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990). With the increasing age of victims and the repetition of human rights violations during the social protests (2019), the role of future generations of human ...
Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp
Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp
National Human Rights Institutions as Bridge Builders between the State and the Multi-Layered Human Rights System? An International Legal Analysis from a European Perspective. KU Leuven
‘What does the international legal examination of international (UN, European and network) regulatory frameworks concerning (European) NHRIs tell us about the position of NHRIs towards the state in the multi-layered human rights system?’ This is the overarching research question this dissertation aims to answer.
Accordingly, two common threads run throughout the dissertation:
1. the international legal approach to the study of ...