The book explores, from a comparative perspective, the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights on a wide range of private law issues, including family law, data protection law, media law, copyright law, labour law as well as private international law and procedural law.

This book provides an understanding of how States around the world, whether in the Global North or the Global South, deal with and organize the religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity within them and how, in the same vein, they deal with the plurality of opinions and legal systems.

Gezien het aanhoudend hoge niveau van discriminatie in de Belgische samenleving is het meer dan ooit noodzakelijk na te denken over hoe de effectiviteit van de antidiscriminatiewetgeving kan worden verbeterd. Dit boek wil daartoe bijdragen. De onderzoekers analyseren mogelijke manieren om de wetgeving aan te passen aan opkomende vraagstukken.

This book concerns equality in personal status - absolute, anti-discrimination - and how formal protection was superseded by material, fuller protection. It discusses history - Latin America, then the French Revolution - and disciplines - philosophy, ethics, economics, sociology, systems theory - with their diverse views and moves into modern phenomena like digitalization.

This book explores how the public's right of access to environmental information is being used in practice and how far these uses, and the motives behind them, align with the aspiration of furthering environmental protection that lies behind the creation of this legal right.

This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date account of Strasbourg case-law on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It focuses on the Court's most important cases on private and family life, home and correspondence, which have been selected following the Court's Jurisconsult's opinion of their jurisprudential interest.

This book focuses on the legal governance of online platforms concerning direct and indirect discrimination against users in the housing, advertising, and labor markets. Through an extensive investigation of sources this book illustrates how statutory law and legal precedents in the E.U. and the U.S. are only partially equipped to address discrimination against statutorily protected classes in online platforms.

Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights prescribes that individual applications must be directed against one of the Convention States. Consequently, private actors involved in proceedings against other private actors before domestic courts must complain about State (in)action in their application to the European Court of Human Rights. In other words, originally 'horizontal' conflicts must be 'verticalised' in order to be admissib...

Handige verzameling van wet- en regelgeving in vier aandachtsgebieden: de rechten en vrijheden, de relevante strafrechtelijke bepalingen, de private en bijzondere veiligheidszorg en enkele diverse bepalingen.