This article offers an assessment of EU directives in the field of legal immigration in the light of the Union’s own claims of economic rationale behind its immigration policy. While stopping short of economic analysis of law, the work pinpoints the areas of EU immigration law of relevance to...

In November 2010 three Regulations of the European Parliament and the Council formally instituted the European Supervision Authorities (ESAs) in the financial field. The ESAs takeover the role of the Lamfalussy Level 3 Committees, with enhanced powers and responsibilities. The ESAs have...

This paper reviews the regulation of intra-EU international roaming services, based on available empirical evidence from the comprehensive BEREC reports on roaming, as well as other data sources such as the European Commission, the OECD, and European NRAs. The intra-EU international roaming...

Richard's whole academic career has been devoted to the concepts of 'information' and 'informatics' in relation to the law. In my contribution I will concentrate on the first. My question will be: what is the information society and can we still regulate it by law? The size of this article...

This chapter critically analyzes the legal and regulatory framework for Electronic Health Records in Europe and the US. At both parts of the world, the development of EHRs is evolving quickly, but many different approaches have proven possible. Different approaches resulted in different EHR...

The smart grid is a concept for the development of power distribution grids that offers great promise for the realization of the ambitious objectives of European Energy Policy. In its Third Energy Liberalization Package, European energy law has introduced the concept of intelligent grids and...