Institute for Human Rights KU Leuven
Activities within the Institute focus on research and education in International and European Human Rights Law, with a particular focus on the law of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Activities within the Institute focus on research and education in International and European Human Rights Law, with a particular focus on the law of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The research Group Human Rights coordinates and centralizes the many human-rights linked research projects in the law faculty. Both theory of human rights, national human rights law (constitutional law, criminal law,civil law, ...) and international human rights law are brought together with the objective of engendering and stimulating integrated human rights research projects
Topic A: Civil law Revision of the Civil Code, Book 1 (Persons) Research of the past 18 years concerning the change in matrimonial systems after juridical procedures. Topic B: Private law Juridical aspects of multimodal transport with particular attention to the liability of the Multimodal Transport Operator Private international law aspect of the termination of an international employment contract Development of a cybernetic model of ...
The Centre of International Law, headed by Prof. dr. Erik Franckx, is the successor to the Centre for the Study of the Law of the United Nations and the Specialised Agencies, Centre for International Law and International Institutions and the Centre for Eastern European Law. The Centre for International Law specialises in research in general international law, law of the sea, human rights and humanitarian law, international economic law, ...
The research in the field of international law focusses mainly on four different fields. The law of the sea, the law of international organizations, regional international law in Africa and East-European legal systems. With respect to the law of the sea the main areas covered are marine pollution, fisheries, Belgian state practice, the Baltic Sea region and maritime delimitation. As far as international organizations are concerned, the ...
This research unit consists of the Institute for European law, the Institute for International Law and the Institute for Private International Law.
The unit researches EU (institutional) law. Public international law. And private international law jurisdiction; applicable law).
International Law Cooperation
Established in 1976, KADOC wants to promote interdisciplinary research on the interaction between religion, culture and society in a Belgian, Europan and global context from the 19th century until present. To support its research, the Center has a large documentation fund (archives, library and au diovisual documentation) at its disposal. Research in KADOC is done by membersof the staff and contract-researchers. Also the members of the ...
This research unit consists of 5 institutes: the Institute for Administrative Law, the Institute for Constitutional Law, the Institute for Civil Procedure, the Institute for Environmental and Energy Law and the Institute for Human Rights
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (prof. A. Alen) - The state : structure, organs, competences, functioning. - Constitutional law and international law: human rights. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (prof. M. Boes) Zoning ...