Projects
Towards an improved level of legal protection of taxpayers in the regionalised Belgium? A research on the legal boundaries to the interpretation and application of the inheritance and gift taxes and of the civil law by federal and regionalised tax… Hasselt University
Foundations for the private detection and public sanctioning of the laundering of tax fraud proceeds: a fundamental legal research on the extraordinary position of tax evasion as a predicate offence for money laundering. KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the legal compatibility of the criminalisation of tax fraud on the one hand and the so-called ‘preventive’ and ‘repressive’ action against the laundering of criminal proceeds on the other. The central research question is whether the application of anti-money laundering legislation to tax fraud proceeds is to be considered a legal necessity or, on the very contrary, a legal fallacy.
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Research on the opportunities to the legal formalization of agreements between partners regarding compensation for career decisions in the context of facilitating the combination of work and care Hasselt University
Policy Research Center Welfare, Public Health and Family - EF 60: Legal investigation data management Healthcare Inspectorate Ghent University
Research objective
This research works with a practical framework from the health care inspectorate that relates to a legally compliant way of dealing with the processing of (special) personal data. This framework takes into account the relationship between the following legal processing, confidentiality and disclosure obligations: the [1] General Data Protection Regulation (and the federal and Flemish follow-up legislation thereof); [2] ...
Membership of occupational pension schemes for employees. A comparative legal research and empirical study on the functioning of rules concerning the affiliation to an occupational pension scheme KU Leuven
For employees, an occupational pension is an increasingly important part of their income after retirement. The access to such an occupational pension plan is therefore the first and most crucial element or starting point in the accumulation of the additional income. Affiliation rules regulate which employees have access to an occupational pension scheme. These rules directly determine the participation rates. Both at national and European ...
Effectiveness of security rights in movables in case of seizure: an empirical legal research Ghent University
Security rights are legal mechanisms to enhance the probability that a creditor will receive payment. The proposed research aims to investigate which security rights on movables offer a creditor more certainty of being paid in case of seizure and whether this result is justified. Thus, the proposed research aims to contribute to the debate on the effectiveness of security rights.
"The ethical, legal, and social aspects regarding research, diagnosis and treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness" Hasselt University
A legal empirical research on the intersection of public needs and private interests in IPR with a focus on patents KU Leuven
This research is a legal-empirical study of the intersection between public interest and private interests in intellectual property law with a focus on patents.