Projects

This thesis examines the evolution in the legal reasoning of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) when it reviews the validity of Union legislative acts with regard to fundamental rights. The relevance of this research lies in the potential creation of confusion in the case-law of the European Union with regard to standard of review as well as the empowerment and the gain of political influence of the ECJ on the decision-making of the ...

The main object of the research is the analysis of the Epicurean position towards politics, as a doctrine, and towards effective political action. Because of the inadequate reception of statements as λάθε βιώσας or μὴ πολιτεύεσθαι, Epicureans have been considered cut off from politics and as society's parasites, interested only in satisfying their «belly's pleasure», without contributing to society's life. Indeed, Epicurus used a double ...

Should good intentions play a part in judging discriminatory behaviour? While a significant amount of (pervasive) discriminatory behaviour is unintentional (or even unconscious), judging a person for something they did not mean to do goes against the grain of our sense of justice. This research project considers the role of such intentions (‘the moral element’) in anti-discrimination law. To achieve this, it firstly considers the role this ...

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 ...

The FWO research project “Debt or Sin?” starts from the hypothesis that the current moral confusion regarding debt and credit started already long before the present European debt crisis, or, for that matter, the rise of classical economics in the 18th century. It assumes that the principle that debts must be repaid and promises honored was elevated by moral theologians and jurists into a fundamental principle for organizing market ...

De vrije markt en de democratie laten ons toe om gefaalde projecten te liquideren, dit d.m.v. respectievelijk het insolventierecht en een jaarlijkse stemming over de begroting. Beide instituties faciliteren zo een evolutief leerproces. Twee sectoren, met name overheden en banken, worden door verschillende mechanismes de facto beschermd tegen dit evolutieve proces. Voorbeelden van zo’n insolventieprikkel-dempende mechanismes zijn het ...

Terwijl de interpreteerbaarheid ,vooroordeel en rechtvaardigheid al uitgebreid bestudeerd is in de ruime zin van machine learning, blijft het nog steeds onbekend terrein hoe deze inzichten toegepast kunnen worden op proces mining toepassingen. Voornamelijk literatuur over deze vooroordelen en rechtvaardigheid bestaat bijna niet. Daarom is het in het kader van de voorspellende proces monitoring en de besluitvorming in processen dat dit project ...

The present PhD project within the work package Russia builds on the strategy put forward in the text of the proposal for the Connectivity project. There the main objective was to assess the link between the discourse and practice of Russia on issues of normative-political and security sovereignty. The present PhD project aims to address both of these cases by aligning them to the argument that narratives of Russian traditional norms and ...

De doelstelling van het Sense-IT project was via toepassing van sensortechnologie een antwoord bieden op twee vragen die de laatste jaren met regelmaat gesteld worden binnen de sierteeltsector: (1) 'Wat is het effect van mijn teeltmaatregelen en hoe kan ik de groei, ontwikkeling en kwaliteit van mijn gewas nauwlettend opvolgen?' en (2) 'Hoe kan ik het energieverbruik van mijn teeltsturing inschatten en waar mogelijk reduceren?'. Deze vragen ...