Healthcare is changing. This volume explores patient autonomy and data protection laws in light of developments in modern healtchare systems, particularly ICT in healthcare and personalised medicine. A must-read for every professional active in the field of data protection law, health law, policy development or IT-driven innovation.

Deze uitgave biedt juridische professionals een kritisch inzicht in een van de potentieel meest disruptieve toepassingen van dit decennium. Het gaat op bevattelijke wijze dieper in op de concepten blockchain en smart contracts, op de impact op het financieel recht, het vennootschapsrecht, het verzekeringsrecht, het auteursrecht, het consumentenrecht en het notariaat en op de gevolgen voor het internationaal privaatrecht.

This book presents an original and timely fundamental rethinking of the regulatory framework of commercial communication from a children’s rights perspective. Offering a carefully considered, well-documented overview and in-depth evaluation of several legislative frameworks, policy documents, self- and co-regulatory initiatives and literature from a variety of disciplines, it works towards the development of children’s rights-inspired recommen...

Dit handboek wil de lezer een volledig begrip bieden van alle bepalingen van het merkenrecht die van kracht zijn in de Benelux en in de Europese Unie. Na een overzicht van het wettelijk kader volgt een grondige bespreking van de rechtsregels over de geldigheidsvereisten voor een merk, de procedures voor het verkrijgen van een merk, de rechten van de merkhouder en de uitzonderingen daarop, de wijzen van beëindiging van een merk en de ...

This book is a liber amicorum of the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP). It is published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIR) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) to which it is since 2014 the successor. To celebrate this jubilee, it was decided to publish a book containing contributions from former and current researchers of our centre.

This book combines theoretical discussions of the concepts at stake and case studies following the relevant developments of ICT and data-driven technologies. Part I sets the scene by considering definitions of security. Part II questions whether and, if so, to what extent the law has been able to regulate the use of ICT and datadriven technologies as a means to maintain, protect or raise security, in search of a balance between security ...

Practically every organisation in the world processes personal data. European data protection law imposes a series of requirements designed to protect individuals against the risks that result from the processing of their data. It also distinguishes among different types of actors involved in the processing and sets out different obligations for each type of actor. The most important distinction in this regard is the distinction between “contr...

This book analyses a select number of incarnations of the originality requirement in different branches of Belgian law in order to establish whether common elements or a common root can be found. These findings will subsequently be applied to the practice of digitalization in law in order to gain a better understanding of how the concept of originality should be interpreted in this matter.

States increasingly delegate regulatory and police functions to internet intermediaries. This may lead to interference with the right to freedom of expression. In a time when these issues are of particular relevance, Intermediary liability and freedom of expression in the EU provides the reader with a framework to protect the freedom of expression in an online world.