The authors not only write an accessible guide to Power BI, the Microsoft self service reporting software, they also explain the importance of business intelligence for diverse business processes. This book is the ideal introduction for all who want to become familiar with Power BI. No prior knowledge needed! * Learn how to present Big Data en KPI’s attractively and flexibly. * Use the online files to complete the exercises. * Genuine cas...

This book investigates the practice of profiling using Big Data Analytics, with the main focus on the interplay between the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the European Union Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD). This book is an interdisciplinary study of profiling as a technological tool, and of its legal framework, including comparative analysis of the case law on personal data processing.

Many large companies - like Bosch, Ikea and Novo-Nordisk - are owned by enterprise foundations. This book provides an overview of enterprise foundation law in six European countries and the US. The book explores enterprise foundation law in the seven aforementioned nations and analyzes how the law influences the prevalence and governance of enterprise foundations around the world.

This book presents comparative perspectives based on findings presented in National Reports on the theme 'Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions'. The contributions focus on whether, and if so, how, family law recognises that a child can have multiple parents, and which family functions are recognised and favoured by the 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.

As contemporary legal regulation becomes more and more complex, the law becomes more fragmented. This book puts forward recommendations to promote the systemic nature of law. In addition to pro-systemic legal arguments, the book focuses on the foundations of law formed by underlying principles and values.

The book explores the present and future of shareholder activism in Belgium. Old and new forms of activism will be presented and situated in their financial and legal context. This will help readers understand whether shareholder activism can be a boon or a curse for sustainable value creation.

One of the greatest contributions of the twentieth century was undoubtedly the expansion of the concept of culture. One of the consequences of the amplification of the notion of culture was that it permeated all social disciplines, and law was evidently no exception. Research into law and culture was somewhat belated but has recently yielded a multitude of interesting literature and relevant inquiries. This important volume brings together med...

This book deals with the current trend in investor-state arbitration, with a focus on the African continent. It looks more specifically at the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and discusses how it can reshape the investor-state dispute system on the continent.