New ideas, new identities? The constitutional foundations and the development of the political offence in Belgium (1831-2010). KU Leuven
Even though the 1831 Belgian constitution states that political offences must be trialed by jury, the post-war period does not provide any examples of such trials. Therefore, this project questions the historical backgrounds and the development of the modern political offence. On one hand, it seems that the political offence was a key element in post-Napoleonic Restoration thought, indicating that it was far more than a mere judicial expression ...