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Comparative Concepts of Criminal Law is unique in the sense that it introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts and rules of substantive criminal law in a comparative way and not just to the criminal law system of one specific jurisdiction.

This book provides a unique insight in the way concessions and other legal instruments are used for mines, casino’s, parking garages and street furniture in Countries in the EU and beyond. 
     

The two-day conference brings together leading family law researchers from across Europe to Stockholm. In addition, in an unprecedented move, experts in the field of family law from all Nordic governments will participate throughout the conference. The aim is to bring together the imaginative and knowledgeable academic research in Europe with legislative and advisory activities. 

Since 1990, Alain Bensoussan has been studying AI to ensure its ethical and regulated development. This book is aimed at technology law professionals who implement and protect AI projects, helping them understand and comply with European regulations. These regulations, the result of five years of work, aim to ensure the rapid and ethical deployment of AI in Europe, while protecting fundamental rights and European values. After the information technology revolution and the internet revolution, artificial intelligence is the third digital revolution.

This celebratory volume honours the remarkable career and intellectual legacy of Professor Dr. Geertrui Van Overwalle, an influential scholar in patent law and plant breeders’ rights.

This book gives a complete picture of the rather unsystematic field of EU contract law. It can be used as course material for teaching, but also serves as a point of reference for academics and practitioners alike.

A crucial question is whether EU data legislations geared toward the establishment of data markets can be squared with personal data protection. Based on her doctoral research, Charlotte Ducuing addresses this question with a novel and original approach based on commodification studies. A must-read to understand data legislation, its commodification dynamics and their impact on data protection law and to take a fresh perspective on the GDPR.

This book endeavours to present an exhaustive examination of the ethical and legal dimensions of human mood enhancement technologies. 

This book offers a first step towards a remedy by zooming in on policy instruments within international wildlife law. More specifically, it makes an in-depth study of policy instruments for large carnivore conservation in southern Africa.

The book aims to stimulate and strengthen cross-disciplinary research on sustainability, law and criminology and to provide inspiration for sustainability education and legal practice.

This book first sets out a conceptual framework of three main types of product-as-a-service contracts (product-oriented, use-oriented, result-oriented PSS) based on real-life examples. Second, it identifies and analyses the relevant EU regulations as well as the national (BE, NL) contract laws applicable to these contracts. Third, it evaluates the current regulatory framework of product-as-a-service contracts in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses. Fourth, legal solutions are proposed to tackle the identified weaknesses and to promote balanced, truly sustainable product-as-a-service contracts.

Angelo Goethals' doctoral thesis on The Legal Framework for (Inter)connecting the Belgian Offshore Wind Farms examines legal challenges and frameworks governing Belgium's offshore wind farm transmissions and interconnections. Through the PhairywinD project, funded by the Energy Transition Fund, the study explores grid development, market issues, and licensing processes, addressing concepts like offshore bidding zones, energy islands, hybrid interconnectors, and the interplay between European and international law. Defended in 2025 at Ghent University, the research provides valuable insights for the future of offshore wind energy in the North Sea and beyond.

This book contains a review of forty “landmark” decisions issued by the European Court in Intellectual Property law between 2019 and 2024. As each decision originates from a dispute before a Member State court, the European Court’s rulings have, as far as possible, been summarised and analysed by authors who are familiar with the relevant national jurisdiction.

This book examines how complex intermediaries, such as financial institutions, affect shareholder rights in publicly traded companies. These intermediaries pose challenges in the relationships between companies, shareholders, and ultimate investors. The book explores solutions, like Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), to safeguard investors' interests.

This book explores possible ethical justifications for a moral duty for judges to enhance their cognition and examines how this duty sits within the existing legal framework on judicial liability, professional duties, and human rights. 

This book delves into the evolving landscape of sustainable finance, exploring banks' potential liability for environmental and social harm caused by borrowers. This legal analysis examines both Belgian law and EU prudential regulations, offering key lessons from climate-related litigation. Discover the critical link between regulatory developments and civil liability risks.

In banking and finance, transnationality permeates the day-to-day professional life and makes the dedicated lawyer an internationalist by necessity. There are good reasons for this: the intangible nature of services, the desire of operators even regulated to conquer foreign markets; sometimes because of the extraterritorial spread of local policies relating to the person of the operators or the products marketed. Although it does not always have a good reputation, private international law, with its promise of a widely understood conflict of law discipline, is making inroads into the legal practice of this specialised and globalised sector.

This book gives an overall picture of the principles of Belgian industrial relations law, such as trade union freedom, the instruments for social dialogue, collective bargaining agreements and collective action.

The seventy-fourth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the STL from 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2018. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

Explore how NATO has evolved over 75 years, expanding membership and capabilities while facing complex security challenges. The author provides valuable insights into the organization's legal landscape. An invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to navigate the intersection of international law and security.