Projects
Economic and Competition Law. University of Antwerp
This is my language, and yet it is not. Towards a clear and consistent use of terminology in the legal language in social law. KU Leuven
For the longest time, the language used in legal texts has been subject to severe criticism: legal texts are written in a difficult, archaic language, and their structure is near to inaccessible. However, this ascertainment has never lead to anything more than just that: there is hardly any concrete advice to make changes, and hardly any systematic research into this problem has been done.
The aim of this research is to make a first ...
Freedom of enterprise and employment discrimination law. KU Leuven
The protection of non-standard workers in national, European and international law and the regulation of work in the digital era. KU Leuven
My program addresses the labour issues arising from the spread of non-standard work and the rise of the gig-economy. Workers who work in the gig-economy for online platforms or for companies like Uber are normally classified as independent contractors and, as such, are not granted basic labour protection. I will research on the working conditions of these workers and on the methods of granting them fundamental workers' rights. I will examine ...
SADC regional conference on the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on social law Ghent University
The conference will provide an opportunity to present and reflect on the various social law developments affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the SADC region. It will point to areas for further (comparative) research, stimulate collaboration and networking amongst the participants and possible political action. Broad areas of social law affected by the pandemic:
- Labour law (antidiscrimination law, health and safety at work..) Social ...
Academic assistance to the legal and economic impact assessment for alternatives for a preproposal for a new postal law University of Antwerp
Surge in single-member companies in Belgium: research into a lingering tax and organizational law problem KU Leuven
More and more natural persons choose to exercise their professional activities in the form of a (single-member) company. On the one hand, this concerns professionals and other self-employed persons who choose to conduct their sole proprietorship through a company. On the other hand, managers and company directors set up management companies to be able to offer their services without being bound by an employment contract.
It has ...
Private international law consequences of international platform economy workers KU Leuven
Platform economy creates a unique legal relationship between employer, employee and consumer. Globalization in combination with platform economy results in international employment and cross-border legal relations between employee and employer. This research would try to clarify the private international law consequences of such legal relations: which forum has jurisdiction, and which law is applicable? Can PIl facilitate acces to justice for ...
Project on the Enforcement of Non-Discrimination Law (PENDL): design of a legal framework for evidence and remedies. KU Leuven
When someone is discriminated against by an authority or another citizen (eg as an employee on the basis of age or as a tenant on the basis of ethnic origin), international, European, national and regional legislation offer protection. Recent evaluation reports show, however, that a citizen who wants to call on this protection faces considerable difficulties. First, it is not clear how one should prove that discrimination has taken place. ...