Projects
Private international law consequences of international platform economy workers KU Leuven
Platform economy creates a unique legal relationship between employer, employee and consumer. Globalization in combination with platform economy results in international employment and cross-border legal relations between employee and employer. This research would try to clarify the private international law consequences of such legal relations: which forum has jurisdiction, and which law is applicable? Can PIl facilitate acces to justice for ...
Private International Law and International Corporate Mobility: Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions University of Antwerp
Private International Law in Motion (PAX). University of Antwerp
The European Union and Party Autonomy in Private International Family Law KU Leuven
A paradigm shift, from State control to self-determination of individuals, is currently occurring within our society. Not so long ago, divorces, same-sex marriages, registered partnerships, birth control or in vitro fertilization were hardly conceivable whereas it is now accessible, or at least debated, in most European countries. This has been largely influenced by the fact that citizens request more liberty to arbitrate their own existence ...
Private International Law in Motion 2.0 (PAX 2.0). University of Antwerp
Relation between international treaties and the European private law KU Leuven
Although the Ever-Given incident was undeniably an economic disaster a short time ago, it also provided new discussion material for lawyers who focus on international trade, contract and insurance law. Life writes the best stories. The perspective of contractual liability and liability for third party damages in other constellations concerning the carriage of goods and persons by water, road, air represents, on the one hand, a property ...
Between Facilitating Trade and Fostering the Public Interest: a Fork in the Road for EU Private International Law? KU Leuven
Prosperity' through Hybridizing the Public with the Private? Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), Sustainable Development and International Law. University of Antwerp
Access to environmental information held by the private sector under international, European and comparative law KU Leuven
The current paradigm for democracy and environmental justice rests heavily on the principles of transparency and public participation. Access to information is a precondition for the effective exercise of public participation mechanisms, and when it comes to environmental matters, one can hardly be conceived without the other. Regarding environmental data held by the private sector, companies are increasingly faced with demands for access to ...