Projects
The creation of autonomous public bodies from a European comparative legal perspective: international impulse, national restraint and how to reconcile these trends. University of Antwerp
Autonomous government. Towards a general legal framework for the creation and regulation of autonomous public bodies. University of Antwerp
The creation of autonomous public bodies from a European comparative legal perspective: international impulse, national restraint and how to reconcile these trends. University of Antwerp
The Creation of Autonomous Public Bodies from a European Comparative Legal Perspective: International Impulse, National Restraint and how to reconcile these trends. University of Antwerp
Legal analysis of the Belgian legal framework on assisted reproductive technologies. Embryonic stage, teething problems and implantation of an adult legal framework KU Leuven
For ages, mankind has been occupied with its own fertility. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test tube-baby, the research into assisted reproductive technologies is fully on-stream. De first livebirths after uterus transplantations and genetic interventions have already been reported. Legal research has not followed this trend, although assisted reproductive technologies also raise legal questions. This PhD contributes to legal ...
Patrimonial Rights and Bankruptcy. A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Enforceability of 'Erwerbsrechte', 'Nutzungsrechte' and 'Verbotsrechte' in Bankruptcy Proceedings KU Leuven
Bankruptcy law is the closing part of private law. This means that bankruptcy law terminates the individual rights of recourse of the creditors. The legislator explicitly states that the purpose of bankruptcy proceedings lies in the liquidation of all assets of the bankrupt (Article XX.98 Code of Economic Law). The assets of the bankrupt constitute collateral for his creditors. However, the creditors must take the assets of the bankrupt as ...
CoHuBiCoL: Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The core ...
Sophie STYNS: Recodification of general contract law: evolution of the foundations in comparative law perspective KU Leuven
I want to spend the one-semester sabbatical period on research. In terms of research, I have focused (as co-chairman of the Commission on the Reform of Contract Law (Book 5 of the Civil Code) and since my Francqui Chair at the Université St.-Louis in Brussels in 2016) on the analysis of and a plea for the appropriateness of a reform and on the legal-technical conception of new legal texts based on the applicable contract law. Now that the new ...
The recent renewal of canonical penal law. A legal-social approach. KU Leuven
The penal law within the Latin Catholic Church is in full evolution.
The new norms concerning the most serious delicts, reserved for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), were promulgated on 30 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II in his Motu Proprio "Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela" (abbreviated as normae SST) and during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI the canon law was further renewed. On 21 May 2010, the CDF issued a ...