This book contains the lectures of an International Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10-12 December 2008 and organised by the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus Observatory on Health Law.

In this publication, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines (medicine, law, ethics, and philosophy) discuss the meaning of underlying principles of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997) ...

International Health Law and Ethics. Basic Documents contains a collection of treaty documents and soft law on health care rights and health ethics, used in health law training programs. Regional documents and explanatory reports on health care rights, which are derived from international human rights law, provide a way of "unwrapping" government obligations in health care, making rights more specific, accessible and (judicially) accountable. In addition, soft law declarations and medical e...

Globally, there are growing calls for Higher Education Institutions to become more civically engaged and socially relevant while increasing public interest in the impact of universities on their localities and regions. Engaged Learning facilitates students to apply theory to real-world contexts outside of the University and to co-produce knowledge with and for the community. Engaged Learning provides students with the skills which increase their employability, and improve their personal and p...

Counterplay is a proactive security concept that complements your existing security plan and tackles your security challenges in a different way. Counterplay radically chooses the criminal perspective. Looking through the eyes of the enemy to better protect yourself. Not by tracking down or attacking potential enemies, but by pro-actively subverting as many attack strategies as possible. You are thinking ahead in a game of chess with the enemy.With plenty of practical examples and useful tips...

Artificial Intelligence is already widely used in many sectors of society. The advent of this technology, and the harms that it may create to interests worthy of protection by criminal law, questions whether the special part of criminal codes is suitable for addressing the challenges that this technology creates. Therefore, it is relevant to reflect on the necessity to amend the special part of the criminal code, integrating AI-related offences. This encompasses offences whose criminalisation...

The idea 'Brief Therapy' was introduced by the Palo Alto-school: John Weakland and Don Jackson and later on Paul watzlawick, Dick Fisch and Carlos Sluski. In this book, the Bruges Model of Brief Therapy is described. It was developed by the Korzybski-institute in Bruges (Belgium) with Luc Isebaert, Marie-Christine Cabié, Louis Cauffman and Myriam Le Fevere de Ten Hove. The participants of the 'Therapeutic Conversations 3'-congres in Denver (Colorado- USA) in 1996 gave it the name 'Bruges Mod...

Is it possible to master the basics of English grammar and to learn how to build correct complex sentences without drowning in too much abstract theory?The authors of this book believe it is. Getting to Grips with Grammar offers you the tools to do so.The book provides insight into the building blocks of English grammar and into the various word categories. It explains complex matters such as the tenses and modality in a transparent way and it shows you how to make your syntax more sophistica...

Introduction Antoinette Verhage, Lieselot Bisschop and Wim Hardyns. Articles

How to Police a Porous Fortress? Monica den Boer.

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the way in which the European Union has gradually but steadily built a security architecture based on the control of mobility and borders. Different logics of policing are interwoven in several projects, which are strongly interdependent with technological innovation. Furthermore, the European policing of mobility...

Ever since evidence has been crossing borders, law enforcement authorities have been searching for a way to ensure the cross-border acceptance of evidence gathered in another Member State. In that respect, the idea of a 'free movement of evidence', i.e. the automatic acceptance (admissibility) of evidence gathered in accordance with certain conditions by EU Member States in reliance on the results of investigative measures executed in another Member State, has been adverted to by scholars and...

GERN (Groupement Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités) is a large consortium of scientific researchers in the domain of deviance and social control, more precisely studying delinquency, penal institutions, public policies of security and the importance of penal questions in society. Today the GERN is a scientific network present in ten European countries and abroad, uniting researchers of

different disciplines. Each year the GERN organizes a doctoral summer school, giving PhD student...