L'universalisation des droits de l'homme - publié le 07/05/2020
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
Le 10 décembre 1948, l'Assemblée générale de la très jeune Organisation des Nations Unies adopte un texte fondateur de la société moderne. Ce texte est la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme que, de nos jours, tous les États membres de l'ONU ont ratifiés. Celle-ci définit les droits de...
The TRIPS Agreement and the access to medication (L'accord ADPIC et l'acces aux medicaments) - The controversy over intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals and access to medical treatment
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The controversy over intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals, and access to medical treatments in developing countries has been the subject of many public debates recently. The core challenge of this debate is to ensure access to pharmaceuticals in developing countries while at the same...
Family Law: Comparison France Vs. China
Dissertation - 20 pages - Droit de la famille
During the last century, the Chinese government decided to abolish the old family system and establish a new family idea: the socialist family system (the Marriage Code of 1950). This marked a turning point in Chinese common law and the beginning of a new family way of thinking. With this new...
CAVEJ M1 Cours Anglais juridique
Cours - 120 pages - Droit autres branches
So now, let's examine what is a contract at English law. Before we actually go into the details of the characteristics of English contracts, it is necessary to define what precisely a contract is. Essentially, in English law, a contract is an agreement between two or more parties that...
The difficult application of canadian criminal law in Nunavut
Thèse - 57 pages - Droit international
With its creation in 1999, the new territory of Nunavut hoped to solve the social and economical problems it was facing. For the second time in the history of the Poles, indigenous people were given the right by the government to decide their future. The first Inuit to be recognized were...
Intellectual Property : Peterson J. once said that ?what's worth copying is worth protecting'. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit des affaires
At the heart of the copyright legislation is the concept of copying. Copying upto a certain extent is forgiven on the basis of ?fair dealing'. However, the plaintiff has the problem of proving that copying has occurred. One may conclude that Peterson J. overstated the degree of protection...
International Criminal Court
Cours - 19 pages - Droit international
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the only independent and permanent court which deals with the most serious crimes committed by people, which are genocide, crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICCs based on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal...
Human rights - Beyond the universalistic / relativistic paradigm: how to promote a common and cultural-sensitive approach ofmoral principles
Dissertation - 14 pages - Libertés publiques
This article underlines the limitations of the relativistic/universalistic paradigm in regard to the human rights qualification. It defends a third path which consists in a genuine intercultural dialogue, taking into account local specificities in order to promote common moral principles. The...
Free movement of goods and person within the Europe
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit européen
Since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957, the euro area is the geographical and economic EUROPE. Since 1957, new treaties such as Schengen and Maastricht were signed. Europe and its laws allow us to develop economic relations between the member states. Thus barriers fall, the duties are...
The consecration of the patient's autonomy
Dissertation - 16 pages - Droit autres branches
Pain, suffering and death are to some extent, inevitable in human life, though Health care must always seek to eliminate unnecessary suffering and untimely death. But it is easy to recognise that prolonging the process of dying us often undesirable. The difficulty encountered by medical teams is...
The Geneva Convention
Fiche - 10 pages - Droit international
Since the beginning of recorded history, efforts have been made to limit the behavior during war time. Moreover, there have been many attempts to codify the rules of the military conduct as well. For example: The Chinese warrior Sun Tzu in the 6th century BCE tried to put some limits in the way...
A critical analysis of the provisions made in family law for homosexual couples in Scotland and France with particular reference to adult relationships
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit pénal
The Homosexuality is not anymore a painful problem and in our days people speak easily about their homosexuality. The Homosexuality is severely condemned in sacred texts that approach questions link to procreation, the family model, filiations and for which, homosexuality is against...
The economics of the no-fault divorce law
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit de la famille
Marriage is a specific kind of contract "based upon a voluntary private agreement by a man and a woman to become husband and wife?. So in a sense, marriage is a contract like another one, the only difference being that the two contracting parties are strictly determined by the law as "only...
Ending contractual obligations: factors and discharge
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit des obligations
The common law has always taken the view that people enter into contract voluntarily. It follows that if the contract was made without full knowledge of the facts, or if a person was forced to make a contract against his or her will, a court would consider that contract to be banned. The...
Regulating the private military industry (Insight into an incomplete framework)
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
In his farewell address to the American people, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation to be wary of the military-industrial relationship. Less than 50 years later public attention is once again directed to this relationship due to the unequalled privatization of the conflict in...
Authors' rights in the Anglo-Saxon world
Dissertation - 8 pages - Propriété intellectuelle
The authors' rights are a very important problem of the modern economic world. The rules that regulate the authors' rights have always been created in the reaction of some social facts; they always have been late on the sociological and technical transformations. The first fundamental act...
Conditions of detention and "other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments"
Dissertation - 10 pages - Libertés publiques
On March 6, 2006, Alain Grignard, the deputy head of the Brussels police anti-terrorism unit declared on his return from a visit to Guantanamo-Bay with Anne-Marie Lizin, chair of the Belgian Senate: "At the level of detention facilities, it is a model prison, where people are better...
Essay on human rights
Dissertation - 10 pages - Droit international
"Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end [...], but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature [...], would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?". There, Fyodor Dostoevsky asked...
Medical advertisement
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
In France, as in Europe, medical advertising is submitted to a legislation. Pharmaceutical laboratories have to be careful every time they issue a new medicine. There are only two countries which allow medical advertising which are the United States of America, and New Zealand. Indeed, in France,...
The European Services Directive
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit européen
The European Services Directive has been one of the most controversial projects of European Law. Drafted by the Prodi European Commission in 2004, it became a core issue in the French debate over the European Constitution one year later despite its being juridically quite unrelated to the Treaty....
From Russia with Love: Lessons of the Noga arbitration case
Mémoire - 20 pages - Droit international
Globalization is the new buzz word and the lingua franca of international business. With the numerous advantages flowing through globalization, this new process is taking a new shape by getting more critical and unyielding. To elucidate further on its uphill spin, an onlooker can observe its...
Commentaire d'arrêt : Boys Scouts of America v. J. Dale
Commentaire d'arrêt - 3 pages - Droit autres branches
Voluntary associations are at the heart of American civic life. Freedom of association like freedom of speech, is protected by the 1st amendment and it is a right which lies at the foundation of a free society (Shelton v Tucker, 364 U.S. 479, 486, 1960). Part of the freedom of association is "the...
Misrepresentation in Contract Law
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit des obligations
Jemma, was a restaurant owner. She decided to shift from London to the countryside. In order to execute this move, she attended an auction in Borehampton with an idea of purchasing ?lot 69.' This ?lot 69' is described in the auctioneers' catalogue as ?a perfect development opportunity...
Three Case Studies of Business Law
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit des affaires
In the first situation, we can identify three main issues. First of all, the order arrived a few days late. Then the Buyer asserts that the MP3 Players were damaged by moisture by the ship's hull. These two problems are linked to each other: the Buyers wants us to cut the sell price from...
Summarized family law
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit autres branches
Family matters are dealt with in the Family Division of the High Court, and by district judges in County Courts. These magistrates undergo special training, according to Family Proceedings rules 2010. Also, recently the Government has supported and developed for mediation schemes which offer an...
Criminology and criminal justice system
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit pénal
This paper will discuss the following statement:"According to the White Paper Justice for All, the Government has succeeded in increasing prison capacity by 18 per cent, and has improved conditions inside prisons. £20 million has been invested to boost prisoners' learning facilities, and a...
Critically assess the legal basis and context of the European arrest warrant
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
In the olden days, Europe was a place where there were fewer barriers economically, politically and socially. Everything moved freely: stocks, goods, people and also criminals. To strike a balance between freedom and security, some measures had to be taken. The framework decision defines...
The Implementation of the Third Pillar of the European Union in Hungary
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit européen
Hungary acceded to the European Union on the 1st May 2004, thus it is one of the newer member states of the organization. In this paper we are going to introduce the Hungarian implementation of five (former) third pillar issues. We will examine the legal background of these areas of justice-and...
The two equality directives of 2000: False-twins
Mémoire - 43 pages - Droit européen
2007, the “European Year of Equal Opportunities for All” in the European Union ended a few months ago, stressing on the question of the current anti-discrimination law in the Union. This initiative of the Commission took place in a general movement of the European Union toward a better...
Protection of homosexual rights by the European Court of Justice and influence of its decisions in member states' national legal order.
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit européen
The institutionalization of Europe was done in favor of the protection of liberty and human rights. But, is this protection effective for sexual minorities and more precisely for homosexual community? In January 18th 2006, the Parliament of Europe adopted a resolution on homophobia. This measure...
