Humanities - Law
What citizen consultations and throwing soup at "the Mona Lisa" have in common
Climate protests and civil disobedience actions are increasingly repressed, and often seen as incompatible with public consultation, the classic form of participation in environmental decision-making. Yet both are part of the same environmental legal edifice.
’Space lawyer is the perfect icebreaker’
Ahead of our UniverCITY Talk: Our Place in Space on 25 November, we caught up with Günes Ünüvar from the Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL) to talk about why space law is the ultimate party trick and the challenges of regulating orbit.
Three Flemish universities honour UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese with joint honorary doctorate
Brussels, 19 January 2026 - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, together with the University of Antwerp and Ghent University, will award a joint honorary doctorate to Francesca Albanese on 2 April. Albanese is a human rights lawyer and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.
Combating human trafficking in the digital era
The grim landscape of criminal offences against human rights has rapidly evolved with digital technologies facilitating surveillance, exploitation or trafficking. Dr Salomé Lannier, specialising in criminology and law, reviews challenges around workers' exploitation and her research to support authorities and NGO's to prevent and repress it.
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Doctoral fellow Department of European, Public and International Law University of Ghent
