[{"description":"Advances in medical technology as well as changing individual and societal perceptions of death and dying mean that death, as an event, and dying, as a process, have fundamentally changed. In addition, we know that the process of dying and death, at least in a healthcare context, is different based on where it happens, to whom it happens, and why it happens. We know that the process remains heavily medicalised, with calls to understand dying and death more relationally, culturally, socially, and philosophically. There is a great benefit in disciplines working together to promote cross-jurisdictional perspectives and methodologies, and to prioritise interdisciplinary thinking and research on end-of-life issues, for the benefit of society, the individual, healthcare professionals, and healthcare itself. Our contribution to this special issue on end-of-life for the Journal de Droit de la Santé et de l’Assurance Maladie serves a small part in this bigger goal for an interdisciplinary approach to end-of-life discourse and research. It brings together perspectives from 9 jurisdictions, from 17 academics from the disciplines of law, medicine, philosophy, criminology, sociology, to contribute to one very important end-of-life choice: assisted dying and assisted death. A ‘good-quality death’ depends on our relationships, achievements, values and the meaning we create. A good-quality death is not necessarily one without sadness or loss. Rather, it is a death marked by dignity, minimal suffering, and respect for personal autonomy. Good, quality end-of-life care and death need a deeper theoretical foundation, including consideration on concepts such as life cycles, changing relationships between the living and the dead, new technologies and new ways of dealing with the body and death, and cultural attitudes to death and dying. The contributions in this issue are based on a workshop that was hosted by the Brocher Fondation in January 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland led by the two of us. Following our Brocher-sponsored workshop, and having discussed the idea as early as the summer of 2022 (when we first met), we decided to establish the European End-of-Life Research Network (EuEOLNet), a Network that brings together scholars from across Europe to exchange on end-of-life. Specifically on the matter of assisted dying and assisted death, an increase in regulation of this end-of-life choice can be noted globally, including in Europe. Regulated access to a form of assisted death in Europe is, at the time of writing, available in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Slovenia. In practically all jurisdictions, it is a form of medical-assisted dying. Discussion is underway in many jurisdictions, including France, Germany, Italy, England and Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Jersey, the Czech Republic. With this special issue, we aim to share the latest developments on assisted dying regulation in some selected jurisdictions and comment on its key regulatory features and","id":3005970,"source":"revue JDSAM","url":"https://hal.science/hal-05678079v1","titre":"[hal-05678079] Introduction to Special End-of-Life Issue: ‘Reflecting on the need for an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to bettering end-of-life care and research’","pubDate":"Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:41:47 +0200"},{"source":"Revue semestrielle de droit animalier","description":"In the mid-1960s, representatives of the European Communities (EC) took note of the growing concern among the scientific community and civil society about the welfare of animals in livestock farming. The directive on the protection of laying hens kept in battery cages, called for by the EC Council in 1979 and adopted in 1988, was the first regulation on the living conditions of farm animals at the Community level. It simply lays down minimum standards: this article examines in particular the provision that “laying hens must have at least 450 cm² of cage space.” However, this legislative process was motivated less by concern for animals than by the urgent need for European integration, and more specifically, the harmonization of the European agricultural market. Although it explicitly aims to “protect battery-farmed laying hens,” this directive does not actually protect laying hens, but provides a standard for strengthening trade within the free market and ultimately defines animal products as just another commodity. In other words, “animal welfare” is a pretext for harmonizing the European internal","id":2560706,"url":"https://hal.science/hal-05335154v1","titre":"[hal-05335154] Animal welfare as a Pretext for Harmonizing the European Market ?","pubDate":"Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:07:03 +0100"}]