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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 department is a consortium of three major research inputs: 1. The interaction of Law and Technology, with the emphasis upon law and information systems. Projects cover the areas of privacy protection. Internet and liability, electronic surveillance techniques and security law on information systems. The Schengen and Europol data protection aspects are also studied. 2. The confrontation between law, sciences and social development. One ...

Research topic: Legal developments in Eastern Europe Regulatory approaches to the control of marine pollution from land based sources in the North Sea and Baltic Sea area: a comparative study of Belgian, European Community and Soviet law.

• Policy development and preparation of the (long-term) environmental policy for space and the environment
• Regulations and instruments for environmental policy concerning space and the environment
• Tasks of legal services
• Noise nuisance policy

The End-of-Life Care Research Group conducts high-quality scientific research in end-of-life care in Belgium and across Europe. Researchers from different scientific backgrounds work in a common research structure to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research. The group is spearheaded by a number of experienced researchers and strives to optimize the training and support of junior researchers in order to expand future expertise in ...

The research of the centre concerns international criminal law (interstate collaboration in criminal matters, transborder criminality, international crimes emphasis on problems in the information society Topic A: General and theoretical aspects of computer law "Informatics and the law": aspects of legal theory and philosophy of sciences Fundamental aspects of computr law issues Computer law and legal informatics in the light of legal theory ...

The KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of data privacy and information security law, new media and communications law, information rights management, intellectual property rights, and legal dimensions of ehealth.

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CORE's research agenda is directed towards the exploration of the notion of law, of legal concepts and ideas, and the relation between society and law, from different and combined intra-disciplinary angles (historical, comparative, theoretical, …). The main approach is bottom-up and detailed analysis, with a view on context and operational aspects of law. Research themes concern the relation between the economy and law (D. De ruysscher), ...