Faculty of Law

4 Research Research Groups & Chairs Personal Rights and Property Rights (PR²) Research Group The core research domain of PR² is private (international) law The research programme is subdivided into four related lines of research: personality rights, contractualisation, liability & accountability, and kinship studies The focus of the research programme lies on the socio- legal phenomenon of private ordering in (international) private law The content is driven by the concepts of multi-level governance and globalisation, while the research methods are driven by socio-legal studies AHLEC – Antwerp Health Law & Ethics Chair This chair encourages independent, high-quality and critical research in the field of health law and ethics, including through PhDs, publications and recommendations In addition, this chair offers modular post-academic training that is open to physicians, pharmacists, nurses, paramedics, healthcare staff and executives, the insurance sector, lawyers, hospital legal counsels, magistrates, government officials and students ALLIC – Antwerp Liability & Insurance Chair Through PhDs, publications and recommendations, this chair stimulates independent, high-quality and critical research into liability and insurance law The post-academic training offered through this chair is aimed at the insurance sector, lawyers, magistrates, government officials and students Conferences, study evenings and seminars are also organised, serving as an academic platform for interdisciplinary debate on topics related to liability and insurance law Animals and Law Chair This chair, funded by a private patron, seeks to identify an overarching, normative principle governing our relation to animals and to operationalise it as a set of rules The main activity of the chair consists in the preparation of a PhD in animal law, covering both the ethical and comparative law perspectives In addition, the chair oversees policy-supporting research carried out on behalf of the Flemish government with regard to the decision tree for administrative sanctions for violations of animal welfare legislation The chair also offers an inter-faculty and inter- university series of animal rights courses, and aims to pool its expertise with that of other universities with a view to organising activities for a wider audience, such as debates and training activities Research group spokesperson: Britt Weyts@uantwerpen be Personal Rights and Property Rights