Death with dignity: press kit
Commentaire de texte - 12 pages - Droit autres branches
The term euthanasia is derived from the Greek words eu, meaning 'good' and thanatos, meaning 'death'. However, the issue of assisted suicide is far from being pleasant. The expression "assisted suicide" refers to the deliberate speeding up of the death process of a terminally ill...
Theory of direct effect
Dissertation - 8 pages - Droit européen
Born into the International order, the European Community law can touch people only through the juridical order of its Member State. Therefore arises the question about the relationship between EC law and domestic law. The EC law concerns much more directly individuals than the international law....
Consistence between the English Criminal Justice and Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights
Dissertation - 8 pages - Droit pénal
The United Kingdom was one of the original parties to the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). States which contract into the ECHR are obliged to secure the enjoyment of Convention rights for their citizens. Sometimes positive actions may be required as creation,...
Primacy / Supremacy of European Community Law against Sovereignty of the Member States
Mémoire - 25 pages - Droit européen
Today the European Union (EU) consists of 27 Member States; it reaches from the Atlantic coast of Western Europe all the way to the Black Sea of Eastern Europe. In the European Union, the most important and closest collaboration between the Member States happens via the European Community (EC)....
Le débat sur la réforme et / ou la suppression de la Chambre des Lords
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La Chambre des Lords constitue la Chambre haute du Parlement britannique. Elle est historiquement composée de trois « catégories ». On distingue les pairs à vie, nommés par la Reine sous le titre de baron ou baronne qui peuvent siéger à vie. Puis, on note la présence de pairs héréditaires qui...
English Legal System : The Administration of England and Wales
Cours - 93 pages - Droit autres branches
We'll study the administration of justice in England and Wales. Scotland has it's own courts and system. Civil and criminal justice have come close to each other. They must be treated separately because they are very different in particular in the point of view of appeals and the...
How far, if at all, does it matter that the United Kingdom does not have a written constitution?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit européen
Today, the majority of states have written constitutions. It is generally seen as a prerequisite for any new state. They arise due to political events, such as the one formulated in 1793 consequent to the French Revolution. In a state with a written constitution, that one document is the supreme...
La Cour africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples
Mémoire - 105 pages - Droit international
Le concept des droits de l'homme a aujourd'hui trouvé sa place dans notre société pour définir les droits inaliénables, intransgressibles et intrinsèques que disposent les individus, indistinctement de leur race, sexe, religion, ethnie, entre autres. De l'antiquité à la période moderne, les...
UK and French legal system : structural and conception differences
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit civil
The governing laws and its legal system in France and the United Kingdom have major differences, as each of the legal systems have and are based on various views. France is governed by the Constitution of 1958. All the French laws are based on this text. In the United Kingdom, the laws are based...
La Constitution Anglaise
Dissertation - 10 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La constitution matérielle définissant l'attribution et l'exercice des pouvoirs est un élément indispensable à la fondation d'une société politique, en tant qu'instrument de limitation du pouvoir des gouvernants et de protection des droits fondamentaux des gouvernés. L'immense...
Droit constitutionnel général
Fiche - 110 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Droit constitutionnel général 100 pages
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...
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 legal...
Courts, unelected tyrants and public forums
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
In 2000, during the American presidential elections, the role of the Supreme Court was highly contested. Indeed, it consists of a majority of judges appointed by republican presidents and it decided to stop counting the voices manually in contested towns in Florida and George Bush won the...
"The State of exception" in France and the United Kingdom
Dissertation - 4 pages - Libertés publiques
The concept of state of exception belongs to the legal theory of Carl Schmitt. It is concerned by the state of emergencies based on the sovereign's ability to transcend the rule of law for or at least in the name of the public good. In the United Kingdom and France, the state of exception...
Cours de droit constitutionnel - publié le 27/11/2011
Cours - 130 pages - Histoire du droit
« Jus privatum latet sub tutela juri publici ». Bacon. C'est un des 1ers philosophes empiriques. Cela signifie « le droit privé est sous la protection du droit public ». Le droit public est composé de plusieurs branches. Au regard des différentes autres branches, le droit constitutionnel...
The situation of the European Union legal system with regard to international agreements
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit européen
"The EU Member States may be divided into those whose legal order is monist and those whose legal order is dualist." In monist States, once an international agreement has been agreed to, its entering into force in the international legal order entails its entering into force in the national legal...
English legal system
Fiche - 15 pages - Droit international
Document: English legal system, cours de 25 pages en anglais Extrait: There is a difference between Englan and Britain. So why not british legal system? There is a question of english speaking countries. In Wales there ie two languages : Walesh and english. The institutions use the two...
The U.S. supreme court: powers and limits
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit international
Article III of the United States Constitution was the first to provide for a federal judiciary, namely the Supreme Court. The power of this Court was detailed and enshrined in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers. However, its authority has since been widely extended by the power of judicial...
To what degree does the Supreme Court have a 'political' role? And in what 'political' direction have the most recent courts taken the Supreme Court?
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit international
The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous' in the department of power. This opinion, formulated by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist papers, relies on a restrictive vision of the role of judges, considered as 'mouths of the law'. According...
Le régime constitutionnel de la Grande-Bretagne
Cours - 26 pages - Droit international
Le Royaume-Unis comprend la Grande-Bretagne et l'Irlande du Nord. La Grande-Bretagne désigne donc l'Angleterre, l'Ecosse et le Pays de Galle. La Grande-Bretagne a inventé le régime parlementaire et a mis en place en premier un « gouvernement modéré », selon l'expression de Montesquieu. Dès le...
"The O'Connor Court: America's most powerful Jurist" by Jeffrey Rosen
Fiche de lecture - 5 pages - Droit international
This is an article written by Jeffrey Rosen, who is a law professor. It's a slightly critics article in which he tries to show the advantages Justice O'Connor brought to the Court and it also strongly criticizes her decision-making process, her view of the Court in general, he...
Comparison betwenn French and English Constitution
Fiche - 4 pages - Droit international
Document: Dissertation en anglais sur la comparaison entre la Constitution française et la Constitution britannique. Assignment in english on the comparison between the french Constitution and the english one. Extrait: In the preamble of the current french constitution, we can find a formula...
Le nouveau cadre institutionnel européen. Etude du Traité établissant une constitution pour l'Europe (2004)
Mémoire - 101 pages - Droit européen
Après plusieurs mois de négociation entre les Etats membres, le Traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe fut signé à Rome le 29 octobre 2004 par les représentants respectifs des 25 Etats de l'Union. Nul ne sait aujourd'hui si ce Traité entrera un jour en vigueur, les peuples...
Cours de Droit Constitutionnel - publié le 17/05/2022
TD - 43 pages - Droit autres branches
Il s'agit d'un cours de droit constitutionnel du premier semestre de première année de licence de droit. Ce cours va traiter notamment de la Constitution, des types d'Etat, régime parlementaire.
Evaluate the Importance of the Supreme Court in the US Political System: In What Ways Is It a Political Actor?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
The Supreme Court, the highest court in the American judicial system, is one of the three branches of the US national government. In 1803, a mechanism was put in place to ensure that governmental officials and governmental institutions would respect the limitations prescribed in the "Supreme Law...
L'immunité d'exécution en droit comparé
Mémoire - 28 pages - Droit international
Parmi les concepts des droits internationaux traditionnels contestables aujourd'hui, se trouve la question des immunités des Etats. Ces règles ont progressivement pris un caractère contraire à celui de leur proposition initiale provoquant l'émergence de questions concernant leur contenu...
Cours sur les systèmes juridiques anglais et américain
Dissertation - 10 pages - Droit international
Document: Cours sur les systèmes juridiques anglais et américain de 45 pages. Extrait: On ne peut pas aujourd'hui contester en Angleterre que la jurisprudence est une source du droit: il y avait une controverse dans le passé aujourd'hui démodée, alors qu'en France on est plus...
Plessy Vs Ferguson, 1896
Commentaire d'arrêt - 5 pages - Libertés publiques
Slavery was 'politically' abolished during the Civil War in 1863 by the 'Emancipation Proclamation' of President Lincoln, who used his formal powers in order to deprave the south of its first source of income. This was rather a pragmatic declaration than a real political decision....
