De familie Oranje-Nassau is op grond van het decreet van 24 november 1830 eeuwig uitgesloten van het bekleden van een openbaar ambt in België. In deze bijdrage wordt aandacht besteed aan dit decreet. Vooreerst wordt ingegaan op enkele wetstechnische aspecten, namelijk het rechtskarakter van het decreet en de mogelijkheid en wijze van afschaffing. Vervolgens komt de conformiteit van het decreet met verdragsrechtelijke discriminatieverboden ter sprake.

Claims have been made that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is more lenient in accepting age discriminating measures affecting older people than in those affecting younger people. This claim is scrutinised in this article, first, by making a quantitative analysis of the outcomes of the CJEU’s case law on age discrimination cases, followed by a qualitative analysis of the line of reasoning of the CJEU in these cases and concluding with an evaluation of the Court’s reasoning against three theoretical approaches that set the context for the assessment of the justifications of age discrimination: complete life view, fair innings argument and typical anti-discrimination approach. The analysis shows that the CJEU relies more on the complete life view approach to assess measures discriminating old people and the fair innings argument approach to assess measures discriminating young people. This results in old people often having to accept disadvantageous measures and young workers often being treated more favourably.

Deze bijdrage analyseert de ontwikkeling van bijna vijf jaar literatuur en jurisprudentie met als doel te bezien hoe de rechtspraktijk is omgegaan met de verstoorde arbeidsverhouding als redelijke grond voor ontslag.

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp is the auctor intellectualis of the 1818 Dutch constitution. It was his sketch for a new constitution that was used as a starting point for the deliberations of its original drafting committee. Van Hogendorp justifies his constitution as a restoration of the Burgundian constitution that applied before the Dutch Republic. In recent literature Van Hogendorp’s restorational argument is presented as an invention of tradition. In this article an alternative explanation is presented, namely that it is part of a form of classicist political thought that was common during the ancien régime. Van Hogendorp describes his constitution as a moderate monarchy, in which the three principles of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy are properly balanced. And he mainly defends this mixed regime by pointing out that it is a restoration of the old Burgundian constitution of the Netherlands. This way of reasoning is, as will be shown, typically classicistic.