42nd Postgraduate Course Willy Delva: Legal protection in public law: can anything still be built in Flanders?
Announcement of the 42nd PUC Willy Delva at Ghent University on legal protection against government, NIMBY litigation and Flemish administrative courts.
Translated from Dutch. The original is the authoritative text. Read the original.
Key points
The 42nd Postgraduate Course Willy Delva asks whether building is still possible in Flanders given increased legal protection against government and the NIMBY syndrome. Its five sessions cover legal redress and government liability, alternative dispute resolution and legislative validation, Flemish administrative courts, final dispute resolution tools such as the administrative loop, and environmental law. Johan Vande Lanotte gives the closing address.
Citizens and a
ction committees are increasingly challenging government acts before the courts. The XLIInd Postgraduate Course Willy Delva therefore addresses the question whether building is still possible in Flanders, given the increased legal protection against the government and the influence of the so-called NIMBY syndrome.
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The first session is devoted to legal redress and government liability.
The second session focuses on (alternative) dispute resolution, citizen participation and the technique of legislative validation.
In the third session, the adage ‘what Flanders does itself, it does better’ is critically examined with regard to the establishment of Flemish administrative courts.
The fourth session analyses in detail the new legal instruments of the administrative judge aimed at final dispute resolution, such as the administrative loop.
The fifth session highlights the increased importance of environmental and planning law, considering the influence of international and European law, environmental impact assessment and the environmental permit.
Professor of constitutional law and Minister of State Johan Vande Lanotte concludes the course with the closing address ‘Legal protection of the citizen against the government: critical analysis and quo vadis’.
The organising committee,
Prof. J. Vande Lanotte, J. Goossens, P. Cannoot