Tableau de la Constitution des Etats-Unis et de ses amendements
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
C'est une des plus vieilles constitutions écrites encore appliquées (depuis le 4 mars 1789), la Constitution des Etats-Unis se situe à la confluence de la tradition britannique et de philosophes libéraux comme Montesquieu et Locke. Instaurant un gouvernement au pouvoir restreint, elle le...
Presidency of India
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
The President of India is the head of State as the first citizen of India, and has therefore an important role to play in the political system. He has special duties and powers, which give him importance in the Indian political life. This function first appeared with the Indian...
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...
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...
Comparative public law essay
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Droit autres branches
Each and every one of us enters this world with a cry, and it is with this utmost fundamental expression of ourselves that we first convey to our parents our basic needs and wants, later expanding the scope of communication to friends and then the community. This is...
International Business Law : three cases
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit des affaires
This paper talks about a buyer, located in Miami, who ordered 2,500 cell-phones from company for a total amount of $150,000 (including the shipping charge). But there were several problems with this order: the order was delayed and the phones were damaged by moisture during shipping. One...
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 Iraq. The...
"An English court should solve problems of characterisation by applying the only concepts with which it is familiar, namely those of the forum." Discuss the proposition critically with reference to decided cases
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit autres branches
The English conflict of laws is a body of rules whose purpose is to assist an English court to deal with cases tried before it which contain a foreign element. It consists of three main topics: (i) the jurisdiction of an English court, in the sense of its competence to hear and determine a...
The French Conseil Constitutionnel: In comparison with Constitutional Courts
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit constitutionnel
I believe that constitutional courts play a major role in legal systems. After the introduction of the 'Conseil Constitutionnel' in 1958, Louis Favoreu, a public law teacher, claimed, 'L'Etat de droit est désormais complet en France'. Indeed, it is often considered that...
International business law Canada
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit international
In this document we are going to look at the CANADA. Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system, defining itself as a bilingual and multicultural nation, the French and English are of equal status, the official languages. Industrialized and...
Are democracies more peaceful ?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
in his book, "De la democratie en Amérique", the french Alexis de Toqueville wrote "Democratic people wish naturally peace". The idea that democracies are not war-prone is a pretty old one but the idea that democracies don't make war to each other is even older. The philosopher Kant was one...
The Patriot Act
Présentation - 22 pages - Droit autres branches
This PowerPoint presentation aims at explaining what the patriot act is and what it implies, and questions the legacy aspects and the consequences of this law.
Dix fiches de révision en droit des contrats anglais
Fiche - 10 pages - Droit international
Document: Dix mini fiches de révision en droit des contrats anglais Extrait: -The Offer is made by a person. -An offer is an act that is express or implies who is address to someone or a group and show that you want to be bind. -In English law an offer is something that has to be...
The american jury
Fiche - 3 pages - Droit international
Document: The american jury, fiche de droit américain de 4 pages, en anglais Extrait: In the beginning, juries were only composed of witnesses who had seen what had happened and who were under the judge's authority. Little by little, jurors become independent from the judge but also...
Should trials be public? - A discussion
Thèse - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Regarding judicial process, every lawmaker has to choose between two forms of logic: a trial should either be secretly conducted in order to protect privacy, a fair investigation and especially the presumption of innocence, or the procedure should be made public to ensure public...
International business law - Simulation of a Company selling Cell Phones
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit des affaires
In this assignment, we analyze and try to build some solutions for a typical business law case. In the general context, let us assume we are a 75-person company called "Company" in the fictional French-speaking country of Euphoria, whose capital is Anytown, and which has a legal...
International Business Law
Dissertation - 10 pages - Droit des affaires
A buyer, who had previously ordered phones from a Company, recently ordered a batch of 2,500 phones from it at the price of 40/unit, for a total of 100,000, plus a fixed 500 shipping charge, for delivery to "CIF Miami." At the Buyer's request, the phones have the Buyer's logo printed on...
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...
Labour unions in the United States
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit du travail
Trade unions in the United States were first organized in the early nineteenth century. The main purpose of a trade union is to collectively bargain with employers for wages, hours, and working conditions. We can define labour union like an association, combination, or organization of...
The Supreme Court of the United States : a single institution in its kind
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the judiciary. Established in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Court is at the same time, the referee of...
Study about the counterfelt in particularly on the Lacoste mark
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Propriété intellectuelle
According to the Larousse dictionary, the definition of a brand is 'the whole of the manufactured products, sold by a firm, company which is owner of this mark. It is the sign being used to distinguish products, objects or services '.This mark is immediately associated to the prestige,...
Trade Unions in the United-States
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit du travail
The twentieth century witnessed major evolutions in the American workplace, from mass production, to automation, and all the way to the digital economy we know now. Workers' lives have evolved similarly, mostly gaining from the benefits during the century. American workers mostly have...
Cas pratique de référence corrigé (en anglais) en droit des contrats anglo-saxon (LLB Contract Law)
Cas Pratique - 60 pages - Droit international
Document: ll s'agit d'un cas pratique de référence corrigé (en anglais) en droit des contrats britannique, pour les étudiant en LLB Contract LAW. Très complet sur modifications et fin du contrat. Extrait: So we got a client, John, which runs a limousines business providing transport...
The major problem for European Union environmental law is that it has been marginalized by the failure to incorporate environmental requirements into other sectors of union activity. Discuss
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Droit autres branches
‘A healthy environment is essential to long term prosperity and quality of life and citizens in Europe demand a high level of environmental protection'. This quote from the European Commission and the introduction of the Sixth Environment Action Programme -...
The French Senate, an inconvenient institution in the modern society
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
The French institutional system, just as the English one, is based on a dual Parliament. Indeed, whereas the Assemblée nationale is considered the lower chamber, the Sénat, or equivalent of the House of Lords, is the upper and more conservative one. It is thus, not surprising that since...
The Whistleblowers Protection under US Law
Dissertation - 1 pages - Droit civil
It is important to understand what whistleblower means. According to the dictonary - "A whistleblower is a person who alleges misconduct". Whistleblowers may report the misconduct to the lawyers, the media or state or federal agencies. In France everyone knows that this process can be extremely...
Section 172 of the companies
Commentaire de texte - 6 pages - Droit des affaires
The board of directors have exclusive powers in conducting the business of a company. Such a centralised decision-making process allows directors to act efficiently and independently from the company's other stakeholders but as Sealy and Worthington write, the risk is that...
US Supreme Court rules evidence admissible despite police error
Commentaire de texte - 3 pages - Droit international
In this day and age, society is becoming increasingly reliant on computer technologies. The police are no exception to that rule. But what happens when the database gets it wrong? This is what an American journalist, Daniel Nasaw, discusses in this article, which was published in the...
Droit public
Cours - 155 pages - Droit administratif
Le droit est aussi ancien que la vie en société : à partir du moment où les hommes sont entrés dans l'ère de l'existence collective, ils ont éprouvé le besoin de régler leurs rapports. Depuis, l'époque primitive, le droit a subi de profondes mutations : la diversification des règles suit en effet...
