Cas pratiques de droit international privé - la qualification
Cas Pratique - 11 pages - Droit international
Cas pratique n°1 - Eve Eulue est une jeune femme comblée. De nationalité française, elle a prévu d'épouser Martin Berbe, un charmant citoyen britannique. Eve et Martin se sont rencontrés à Paris, où ils résident tous deux, mais ont préféré organiser leur mariage dans un pays au climat plus...
Is a link with morality necessary for positive law to be valid law?
Fiche - 2 pages - Histoire du droit
Nowadays, a lot of examples show the will of imposing ethical values into life and law. One of the best illustrations is the introduction of the Convention of Human rights in 47 countries. There are many theories about the meaning of Law that can be dispatched in two groups named...
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...
L'accusation : comparez les systèmes de Common Law avec le système français
Dissertation - 7 pages - Procédure pénale
Montesquieu, dans son ouvrage la Défense de l'esprit des lois, a écrit « l'équité naturelle demande que le degré de preuve soit proportionné à la grandeur de l'accusation ». La citation peut faire référence à la nécessité d'apporter une preuve quasi irréfragable lorsque l'accusation est de nature...
Les emprunts aux systèmes de Common Law en droit de la concurrence
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit de la concurrence
Les différences entre les droits de la concurrence des systèmes dits de tradition romano-germanique qui prévalent notamment en Europe et les systèmes de Common law sont nombreuses, structurelles mais aussi processuelles. On y retrouve dès lors des logiques très différentes en matière...
the True-False paradox of International Law
Fiche de lecture - 3 pages - Droit international
L'article d'Emmanuelle Jouannet (professeur de droit international à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Universalism and Imperialism: The True-False Paradox of International Law?, publié en 2007 dans le volume 18 n°3 de la revue The European Journal of International...
Sécurité juridique et évolutivité en Common Law
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La prestigieuse université d'Oxford accueille des étudiants anglais et étrangers ; ainsi que des professeurs qui logent dans son enceinte même, et sont soumis à un règlement intérieur. Ce règlement mentionnait notamment que la possession d'animaux de compagnie était strictement encadrée, les...
The Objectivity and Universality of International Human Rights Law : Two of its Utopian Claims ?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
The question of human rights and their consequences in the natural and objective scenarios are relative to the cultural context in which they arise. In this document, we will demonstrate how even if the instruments of Human Rights international Law try to defend a universal conception of...
Les différences Civil Law / Common Law
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit autres branches
Dans le domaine du droit comme ailleurs, anglais et francais opposent une vision et une conception différente. A notre Civil Law, héritée du droit romain et du droit canon, l'Angleterre répond depuis le 12e siècle par la Common Law. Le passé colonial britannique doublé de l'avis du...
Choice of law by the arbitrator
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Droit autres branches
One of the main problems faced by the arbitrator when it comes to choice of law is the question of mandatory rules of law. A mandatory rule, as defined by Professor Mayer, refers to “an imperative provision of law which must be applied to an international relationship...
Compare natural law and legal positivist accounts of legal validity. Which is more convincing?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit autres branches
What is law? What a controversial and complex question! It is the raison d‘être of the philosophy of law, over many years, which is aim to understand the generals conditions which would render any putative norm legally valid. Does legal validity lie in the norm's content or...
"The concept of the Rule of Law as defined by Dicey still remains valid : it provides a measure against which we can judge the attitudes and actions of Parliament, Government and the courts"
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen
The rule of law is often expounded as a pillar of the English Constitution. It was described by Lord Bingham as "the second great rock on which [Dicey?s] constitutional edifice was founded". It was referred to as a statute for the first time, in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, as an...
General principles of the Canadian constitutional law
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
As a former member of the British Empire, Canada has been widely influenced by certain aspects of the English law. The Canadian parliamentary system finds its origins in the British institutions that were settled after the conquest of 1760 and more particularly with the 1791 constitutional...
Propriété réelle et propriété personnelle en Common law
Dissertation - 12 pages - Propriété intellectuelle
« Le droit des biens (…) présente à presque tous les points de vue un contraste marqué avec le reste du droit. Plus que partout ailleurs, nous semblons bouger dans un monde d'idées pures dont est entièrement exclu tout ce qui est physique et matériel ». Lorsque Barry Nicholas eut à donner...
International law: history and definition
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
“Truth is that international law is neither a myth on the one hand, nor a panacea on the other, but just one institution among others which we can use for building of a better international order” (J. Brierly, The law of nations, Oxford 1995). Law is a system of...
L'opposition entre la culture romaniste et la culture Common Law
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit international
Pour régler les conflits et ordonner les sociétés, les Etats mettent en place des systèmes juridiques, c'est-à-dire des structures et des modes de fonctionnement des instances reliées à l'application des règles de droit ainsi que les services qui en découlent. Différents systèmes juridiques...
Common law et civil law
Cours - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
- Les Etats de common law se distinguent par des Constitutions qui sont en fait à l'origine des lois votées par le Parlement de Westminster. Grande influence de l'agencement institutionnel né en Angleterre. - Pas de Constitution écrite au RU, cependant une série de grands textes...
TD sur la Soft law et la Hard law
Commentaire de texte - 7 pages - Droit international
Document: TD sur la Soft law et la Hard law, exposé de droit international public de 6 pages Extrait: Loin de diminuer au plan international, le phénomène de la soft law s'intensifie au contraire depuis une trentaine d'années. Le malaise théorique face à ce...
Comparative law
Cours - 10 pages - Droit international
Document: Comparative law, fiche de trois pages en anglais Extrait: What is comparative law? It is not international law but there are some connections between these two matters. It permits to know how another legal system works. With comparative law, we try to see...
Introduction to the Challenges of European and French Law in Legal Informatics
Dissertation - 15 pages - Droit européen
The " new technologies " which appeared thirty years ago and are characterized by a considerable development are subject to fundamental legal questions. The definition of new technologies remains vague and includes the information and communication technologies. The information and communication...
International human rights law
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The right to life has been interpreted as both permitting exceptions and imposing obligations with regard to the death penalty. Discuss. Through centuries, religions and philosophies have strongly condemned the act of killing human life. The extend of states violence during the Second World War...
Consider the extent to which international law is law, or 'really law' or 'law properly so-called' with reference to legal and other theorists
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit international
Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl noticed that at first sight, ‘International' and ‘Law' sound contradictory: “how can one imagine a structured and developed legal system functioning in a political environment that is diffused, disparated, unregulated and conventionally...
International law and normative unity
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
In the Supreme Court of Canada's 1993 judgment in Hunt v. T & N Plc, Justice La Forest laid down the following goal to international law : “develop (…) co-ordination in the face of [the] diversity” of the international system. In other words, international law has to...
Difficulties of application of international law - Example of the Cambodia genocide
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit international
This paper will show to the reader the difficulties which can appear in practice concerning the international criminal law. Indeed, several problems can occur. First of all, one has to know what the aim of the international criminal law is and we have to define what is the...
There is no sense in maintaining different rules for tracing at law and in equity. One set of tracing rules is enough
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit des affaires
In the administration of a trust, the trustee is the one that assumes a range of duties and responsibilities. When a breach of trust occurs, the trustee might be liable for both acts of omission and commission. There are several ways a beneficiary can pursue remedies for a breach of duty on the...
Competition law
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit autres branches
Competition law has different forms of laws according to the causes of concern it has in various countries. The first aspect of its function is to protect individuals, consumers, against the power of monopolies or different corporations, and against agreements on various levels of...
Is the declaration of independence by the provisional authorities in Kosovo compatible with international law?
Cours - 6 pages - Droit international
Document: Is the declaration of independence by the provisional authorities in Kosovo compatible with international law?. Rédigé en anglais, international law. Fait en European Licence of Law (2nd year). 7 pages Extrait: The 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence was an...
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...
Conflict of laws and Crossborder litigation What is comity?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
Comity, first referred to as comitas gentium by Ulrich Huber in the 17th Century, literally translates to courtesy of people. It provides, in fact with an intellectual and legal justification, the recognition of a foreign law by a sovereign state without weakening the sovereignty of the...
The Law Reform Committee Essay: Murder (Rethinking the Mandatory Life Sentence)
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen
Sir Edward Coke stated in the Third Part of his Institutes that "of all felonies, murder is the most heinous". As such, murder has always received the most severe punishment the law could give; a law of King Canute stated that Aberemord 'caedes manifestae' was punishable by...
