Projects
Being Human: Exploring the Social Relations between Humans and Intimate Technological Others in Everyday Life KU Leuven
Everywhere we go, we are confronted with, guided by and welcomed by ever more interactive technologies that are not only occupying a physical space around us, but also a significant place in our hearts, minds and bodies. This thesis argues and empirically demonstrates that our sense of self and social rituals are being impacted by technologies that are not just tools, but veritable Others with different agential capacities. That is, people ...
Naturalistic conceptions of human rights in the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights KU Leuven
My research topic is the role of naturalistic conceptions of human rights in the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights. Naturalistic conceptions of human rights conceive of human rights as pre-legal moral rights, derived from human nature. My research aims to inquire to what extent such conceptions structure the way the ECtHR goes about interpreting Convention rights. To do so, I will ...
Study visit at the Business and human rights Unity at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and field visits to the African Regional and sub-regional mechanisms of human rights protection as well as to some human rights organisations which support vi Ghent University
African countries need to attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) for their development. But at the same time, many MNCs have been accused of involvement in human rights abuses and their victims face many obstacles to accessing remedies in domestic jurisdictions. This research will explore the potential of the African regional and sub-regional mechanisms to fill that gap in human rights protection.
The discovery of human rights in Belgian law: case law against Belgium in the first deaced of the European Commission for Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights Ghent University
The project will research how, during the first decades of the operation of the European Court of Human Rights (1960s, 1970s and 1980s), this Court and the European Convention on Human Rights gradually managed to find a place in Belgium’s domestic legal landscape and to impose their authority.
Human rights law should meet administrative law. How the Inter-American Court of Human Rights can expand its impact in Latin America with a better understanding of administrative law KU Leuven
Latin America lives in the age of rights. After a period of military dictatorships that perpetrated massive human rights violations, international human rights law significantly impacted Latin American states’ legal systems in the last 40 years. In particular, the Inter-American Human Rights System’s bodies – the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, “IACHR”) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “IA ...