Legal Historical Research in Belgium (2018)

The historical, ethical, and legal background of human-subjects research.

The current system of human-subject-research oversight and protections has developed over the last 5 decades. The principles of conducting human research were first developed as the Nuremberg code to try Nazi war criminals. The 3 basic elements of the Nuremberg Code (voluntary informed consent, favorable risk/benefit analysis, and right to withdraw without repercussions) became the foundation f...

Research Programme for 2018–2023

Its statutes give the IEG the task of conducting research into the traditions, transformations and crises especially of religious, political and social differentiations, their effects, and the possibilities for overcoming them. This mandate was fulfilled with the central theme of the research programme from 2012 to 2017, »negotiating differences in Europe«, by applying it to an interdepartmenta...

Legal euthanasia in Belgium: characteristics of all reported euthanasia cases.

OBJECTIVES To study the reported medical practice of euthanasia in Belgium since implementation of the euthanasia law. RESEARCH DESIGN Analysis of the anonymous database of all euthanasia cases reported to the Federal Control and Evaluation Committee Euthanasia. SUBJECTS All euthanasia cases reported by physicians for review between implementation of the euthanasia law on September 22nd, 20...

Historical reflections on American legal psychiatry.

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...