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Russian courts misinterpreted article V(1)(c) of the New York Convention Universiteit Antwerpen
The OE/VY case: the CJEU takes a pragmatic approach to the nationality privilege of Article 3(1)(a) Brussels IIa Regulation Universiteit Antwerpen
Researching the history of fairgrounds is detective work Universiteit Antwerpen
How can we study nineteenth century fairground culture? How do we piece together a historical narrative based on limited and fragmentary sources? Most travelling fairground attractions left few traces, except for fragments in the form of flyers, posters, program booklets, newspaper reports, postcards and occasional photos. But sometimes, miraculous discoveries are made. One happened when Thomas Weynants discovered items from a forgotten ...
Tax law meets sustainability Universiteit Antwerpen
Anne Van de Vijver and Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães (University of Antwerp) delve into the interplay between corporate taxation and sustainability, examining it through the lenses of ethics and economic theory. The blog post stresses the importance of responsible corporate tax lobbying in the context of sustainability. The piece draws from Immanuel Kant's moral principles to propose ethical corporate tax lobbying standards, including transparency, ...
Blog CarEdOn Universiteit Antwerpen
Destruction de l’environnement et résistance Universiteit Antwerpen
En octobre 2018, de centaines d’individus Batwa – un peuple indigène qui avait été expulsé du parc de Kahuzi-Biega – réoccupaient le parc par la force. A l’époque, leurs actions avaient surprises nombreux observateurs, d’autant plus que certains Batwa commençaient à s’allier avec des groupes rebelles, des coupeurs de bois illégaux et des commerçants de minerais. Jusqu’à présent, ces actions ont créé une destruction massive des ressources ...
Environmental destruction and resistance Universiteit Antwerpen
The decision of the indigenous Batwa to reoccupy parts of eastern DRC’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park by force shocked many outside observers. They were further shocked when the Batwa started to ally with rebel groups, traders, and illegal timber cutters in order to exploit part of the ancestral forest they had been forced to leave decades prior. In a recently-published article in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Fergus Simpson and Sara Geenen show ...
Debt and green transition Universiteit Antwerpen
This post introduces a blog series where multiple authors explore the role of debt as one of the most popular financial tools behind the ‘green transition’. Green and sustainability bonds, green microfinance, insurance and loan-enabled ‘loss and damage’ finance, are but a few of many variations of the governance logic, which uses debt to ‘green’ the economic system, while at the same time fuelling the financial and economic structures that lead ...
The crowd-mapping of community-based monitoring and citizen science initiatives Universiteit Antwerpen
This blog post presents the finding of Communitor's Crowd-Mapping of Community-based Monitoring and Citizen Science initiatives in the Global South. We analyze the objectives, designs, degrees of citizens or communities’ participation, and main data users in these initiatives.