Collection(s) : Codes essentiels
Paru le 23/01/2019 | Broché XVI-XV-1733 pages
Professionnels
co-editors Joe Cannataci, Sophie Kwasny, Jean-Philippe Walter et al.
Essential 2019
Codes
International and EU Data
Protection Law
Around the world, data protection law is a fast-growing field of law. This edition constitutes the first-ever collection of both international and EU hard and soft law on the matter. It provides légal practitioners, authorities, policy makers, scholars and students worldwide and in Europe with an accurate, up-to-date and forward-looking compilation of essential texts on data protection.
The volume comprises key international legal instruments from a broad range of both global and regional organisations and networks, including the United Nations (UN), Interpol, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Council of Europe (CoE), the African Union (AU), the Asia-Pacific Economie Cooperation (APEC) and the Ibero-American Data Protection Network (RIPD), and extends to treaties, agreements or transfer mechanisms on other multilateral or even bilateral levels, including on Transatlantic level.
In addition to data protection-specific legislation, the elaborate EU section features subsections for primary legislation and for instruments with data protection-relevance in a series of thematic areas, including : Schengen ; Europol ; Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor's Office ; other coopération in criminal or customs matters ; asylum, migration, borders and travel ; overarching area of Freedom, Security and Justice issues ; cyber-security, and the internai market, the financial system and taxation. It also includes the latest versions of pending legislative proposals.
Gert Vermeulen is Senior Full Professor of (International and European) Criminal Law and Data Protection Law, Director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) and Director of the Knowledge and Research Platform on Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance (PIXLES) at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also Commissioner at the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
Willem Debeuckelaere is President of the Belgian Data Protection Authority and Deputy Chair of the European Data Protection Board (and of its predecessor, the Article 29 Working Party, since 2015). He is also Counsellor at the Court of Appeal of Ghent, Belgium and Guest Professor at Ghent University. Belgium.
