Projects
Smartphone crowdsourced medical data for biomedical research: Addressing the ethical, legal and health policy concerns Ghent University
Smartphone applications for health are being increasingly used as a
platform for collecting and sharing large volumes of crowdsourced
personal health data for biomedical research and algorithm training.
Consumer genetics products are similarly allowing individuals to have
direct access to their own genetic data and to share such data ...
Smartphone crowdsourced medical data for biomedical research: Addressing the ethical, legal and health policy concerns KU Leuven
Smartphone applications for health are being increasingly used as a platform for collecting and sharing large volumes of crowdsourced personal health data for biomedical research and algorithm training. Consumer genetics products are similarly allowing individuals to have direct access to their own genetic data and to share such data with researchers. Using smartphone and genetic data in these ways presents numerous opportunities to expand ...
Planned Obsolescence: In Search of a Refined Legal Framework KU Leuven
Our today‘s society is often called a “throwaway society” based on a linear “take-make-use-dispose” economy. Many studies point out that median lifespans of certain consumer products are in decline. One of the main sources of this problem is the phenomenon of “premature obsolescence”, covering all practices that reduce product lifetime so that the product does not reach its optimal lifetime (from an environmental point of view), without it ...
Transnational investigations and evidence law: in search of an EU legal framework? The case of special investigation techniques Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Data generation and processing power to resolve fundamental questions in green algal research Ghent University
This project includes the generation of small EST libraries of two green algae in order to partially explain a few important cell biological transitions in green algae. It also includes the purchase of blade servers for phylogenetics and general bioinformatics.
Taking legal doctrine seriously:a sociological exploration of the role of legal scholars in shaping the Belgian law of obligations Ghent University
Legal professionals need to identify the law to be able to answer legal questions. It is therefore necessary to know how this can be done: which sources should be used to construct the law? Answers have widely varied throughout time, but legal doctrine (i.e. the practice of normatively stating the law’s content) has remained largely ignored. Since empirical research has demonstrated that legal doctrine does influence the behavior of legal ...
Cracking the code of legal personality: closely held business ventures and the legal appraisal of their actions (Belgium, nineteenth century). University of Antwerp
Vectors of a New Legal Order? Legal periodicals in continental Western-Europe during the Nazi era and its aftermath (1933-1950). Ghent University
This research project studies the networks and content of legal journals during the Nazi regime in Germany and occupied countries in Western-Europe in order to fill a gap in comparative legal history and literature sciences.
Studying legal periodicals during the 1930s and the Second World War brings important new insights into the understanding of the nexus of law and politics and the use of law as a tool in politics in an ...
Legal history meets lexical semantics. Feudal legal terminology in Flanders and England of the 13th and 14th centuries. Ghent University
This project will study the intricacies of medieval multilingualism in law by researching the use of
feudal legal terminology in England and the (Dutch-speaking) part of the county of Flanders during
the 13th and 14th centuries in parallel to examining the development of the corresponding legal
concepts in relation to land tenure. The linguistic landscape in both cases was inhabited by Latin,
French and a Germanic ...