No continent has as high a proportion of older people as Europe. In this paper, we report the findings of an empirical project examining the legal advice needs of older people. An important element of the project also sought information…

Worldwide, soft regulation like codes of conduct and benchmarks have been introduced to cope with the uncertain risks and benefits of nanotechnologies. However, it seems that these regulations are facing effectiveness problems. For instance, the European Commission’s 2008 Nano Code…

After a few remarks about the relationship between law and technology in the Knowledge society and the position that ICT is not a kind of application of law to new needs and tools of the society but something that is…

The present work shows the changes that have been happening in the learning process, where the relation professor/student stops being hierarchized   vertically as it used to be in the past, where the professor spoke ex cathedra; focusing on the aptitudes…

Besides the European Union (EU) Directive on Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals (REACH), the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is probably the single most important piece of environmental legislation in Europe when it comes to dealing with nanomaterials…