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Comparative Analysis
The country reports (Chaps. 3–8) form the essential basis of this final chapter. It provides a comparative analysis the purpose of which is to...
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International Humanitarian Law: Ad Hoc Compliance/Non-compliance Control Through Ex Post Measures
International law prohibits the use of chemical weapons. The compliance/non-compliance control is focused on how to deal with potential and actual...
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Equity, Imagination and Contested Narratives
Justice and the idea of the moral good pervade legal philosophy and underlie much of legal practice in different contexts. They are particularly...
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AI Gender Biases in Women’s Healthcare: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and the European Legal Space
This paper engages with a key debate surrounding artificial intelligence in health and medicine, with an emphasis on women’s healthcare. In...
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Introduction: Object, Methodology and Structure of the Research
The increasing employment of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the biomedical sector as well as the growing number of partnerships...
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Special Reports on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law
At present, AI has become the core driving force for a new round of sci-tech revolution and industrial transformation, and it has an extremely...
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The Regulatory Framework in Biomedical Technologies
This deals with regulatory frameworks for biomedical technologies generally, and pre-implantation genetic interventions more specifically. In doing...
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Professional Medical Ethics
The paper aims to analyse the role of codes of medical ethics (CME) in the plurality of pluralisms affecting the medical profession, patient...
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Incentives for Data Sharing as a Case on (Regulating) Knowledge Externalities
This contribution reflects on the question posed by Professor Hanns Ullrich: Which concepts and principles of intellectual property law inform the...
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Consultative Boards at International Level
Biomedical sciences are constantly raising new and very specific questions related with ethics and law. Since these problems often have a universal...
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Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Europe: Public Health Versus ‘Saved by the Bell’ Individual Autonomy
The text aims to reconcile the bioethical principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice) (Beauchamp TL, Childress JF in Principles...
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“Animal Rights”
The current attitude of law regarding the status of animals reintroduces the debate between the human-oriented and the “deep ecology” approaches in...
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Trophy Hunting, the Race to the Bottom, and the Law of Jurisdiction
Cross-border trade, industry outsourcing, and animal migration are increasingly challenging states that want to take their commitment to protecting...
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Setting the Agenda
This book is based on the open access book entitled ‘The Ethical Spirit of EU law’ (Springer, 2019), which was the outcome of the previous Jean...
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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity): A New Legal System Where the Will of People with Disabilities Really Matters? The Portuguese Experience
Law 49/2018, of August 14, created the Portuguese legal regime of the assisted decision-making (capacity), thus eliminating the legal institutes of...
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Gene Editing from the Perspective of Spanish Law
Gene editing is a particularly attractive subject in the Spanish context because it was precisely a scientist of this nationality -Professor Juan...
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Societal Stress: Theory, Meaning, and Measurement
Chapter 1 contends that law is a macrosociological phenomenon whose study is aided by six assumptions, namely, that (1) a society, like an...
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Comparative Legal Frameworks for Pre-Implantation Embryonic Genetic Interventions
This book discusses the possibilities for the use of international human rights law (and specifically, international biomedical laws related to the...
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Legal Aspects of Genetic Testing Regarding Insurance and Employment
The legal analysis of genetic testing in insurance and employment reveals layered tensions that are central to the governance of contemporary social...
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Yes Means No(thing): Bridging Consent in Contract Law and Data Protection in the Context of Smart Mobility
This contribution departs from a theoretical question regarding the similarities and differences between informed consent as a concept of contract...