Projects
Legal consciousness and the international legal personality of company-states in colonial Africa. KU Leuven
Unlike states, corporations – like private individuals – are not considered as full subjects of public international law and therefore only possess derivative or functional legal personality. However, the focus on the state as the primary legal person in public international law is of relatively modern origins. For centuries, European sovereigns outsourced the task of overseas empire-building to chartered companies, such as the Dutch or ...
Finance and faith in the Western legal tradition KU Leuven
The central research question of 'Finance and faith in the Western legal tradition' regards the tenet, central to Western finance, that debt must be repayed and credit honored. It will be argued that this principle draws its origins from the moral and religious moorings of Western finance. Historically speaking, the rise of modern finance is intricately intertwined with a notion of faith that goes beyond mere trust. Particularly, the legal ...
The norms and practices of the African Union on the promotion of constitutional governance: a legal analysis. University of Antwerp
More than words: the materiality of legal and administrative documents in Roman and Late Antique Oxyrhynchos Ghent University
The Making of French Legal Culture, 1200-1500 Ghent University
The current research traces the formation process of French legal culture in the late Middle Ages. In contrast to conventional narrative of a national legal history, it especially stresses three influential factors i.e., European-wide circulation of legal ideas, non-royal forces and politico-legal interactions in a European context. In so doing, it constructs a European narrative for French legal history.
Access to justice: an economic analysis of legal expenses insurance and conditional fees. Ghent University
This project examines to what extent legal expenses insurance and conditional fees contribute to improve access to justice. A model examines the influence of these instruments on the ex ante stage, the filing stage, the settlement stage and the trial stage.
Legal disputes on the use of waterways in early modern Flanders (ca. 1650-1795) KU Leuven
Modern economies are characterized by free enterprise. Today this is self-evident, yet in the past this question not seldomly sparked controversy and conflict. In the ancien régime the possibilities to start a profession were limited by legal impediments and monopolies. In this project, legal limitations to free enterprise are studied through the lens of inland navigation in Flanders and Brabant. Analysing legal case studies, this project is ...
Tenure track appointment in Legal methodology within the framework of the SSH strategic support plan Ghent University
To increase the research and teaching capacity of the Ghent University SSH Faculties a Special Research Fund pre-allocation of 15 additional tenure track positions – three for each Faculty – was provided in 2011.
Legal Expression of 19th Century Foreign Perceptions of the Belgian buffer state's Neutrality Ghent University
This proposal investigates the international position of present-day Belgium from the Congress of Vienna until the end of the nineteenth century. Its uniqueness lays in the investigation of the main diplomatic actorsU+2019 legal discourse, or the way in which political problems are conceptualized. The proposal covers a considerable timespan, but builds further on earlier works of mainly political history. Its aim is to show how diplomatic ...