Archives for HOOVER

Eric Boot Appeals to the concept of the public interest in politics and law are both incredibly frequent and lamentably vague. In my research project I want to see if this is a fruitful concept and, if so, how we ought to understand it. In my talk I wish to briefly sketch a promising...

François Blais The benefits of preferential voting are well known: (i) to allow voters to vote "sincerely" rather than "strategically"; (ii) ensure that all elected officials are minimally supported by a majority of voters; (iii) favor political parties interested in integrating elements of...

Keynotes: Philippe Van Parijs (UCLouvain) and Helder De Schutter (KU Leuven) What are the linguistic rights and duties of migrants in liberal democracies? By looking into the empirical practices and normative debates regarding linguistic rights and duties of migrants, we intend for this...

Refia Kadayifçi-Kaya (Chaire Hoover, UCLouvain) The main purpose of the law on the elimination of discrimination (discrimination law) is considered as a sort of equality both by the European Union law and by notable discrimination law scholars. The tension between the different concepts of...