The research within the law pillar of the Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy focuses on the following themes: the prevention and compensation of medical malpractice, preventive healthcare and lifestyle, and the use of emerging technologies in a healthcare context. The legal framework for the use of the aforementioned technologies, in particular big data, artificial intelligence and medically assisted reproduction techniques, is the ...
Legal history provides the key to understanding the differences and similarities that underlie contemporary legal systems. Seeing laws in their historical context stimulates academics and clinical professionals to think creatively about how they can shape the law of the future.
The main objective of the Institute for Tax Law is to provide high-quality education and research in direct and indirect taxation, both in the field of Belgian taxation (federal, regional and local tax) and in the field of European and international taxation. .
Institute for Constitutional law does in the first place reserach on the traditional areas of consitutional law
The department Economic Law consists of a group of experts in financial, economic and commercial law. Their aim is to research and stimulate reflection on topics belonging to this field. In order to do so, the Vakgroep Economisch Recht regularly organises colloquia about different law-related questions in this field (e.g. Company Law, Financial Law, Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law), so as to offer a forum of discussion for practicians and ...