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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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....
La nouvelle ère du lobbying
Mémoire - 50 pages - Droit international
« Uber se trouve en plein milieu d'une campagne qu'elle ne mène pas » constatait Travis Kalanick, co-fondateur et Directeur général de la société Uber. « Cela change aujourd'hui » ajoutait-il alors qu'il annonçait le recrutement d'un nouveau cadre, le Vice Président en charge...
How has the Buckley v. Valeo decision affected campaign finance legislation and litigation?
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Droit autres branches
The Supreme Court by its recent decision Randall v. Sorrell of the 26th of June 2006 struck down a law of the state of Vermont which severely limited the amount of money a candidate for state offices can raise and spend. The Supreme Court's rationale was based on the violation by such laws of the...
Droit comparé : les grands systèmes juridiques
Cours - 102 pages - Droit international
Face à la diversité des systèmes, les juristes ont classé, ordonnancé en se fondant sur la comparaison des systèmes en vigueur. Il est fondé sur l'analyse des fondements, de leur logique interne, de leurs divers éléments (sources, etc.). Pour faire ce travail, les juristes ont formé un outil :...
Le filtrage des recours par la Cour Suprême des Etats-Unis
Mémoire - 32 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Alexis de Tocqueville, dès 1835, témoigne de la fascination qu'exerce la Cour Suprême américaine, tant par son organisation et ses attributions, que par sa puissance. S'il est admis que la Cour Suprême est l'une des plus puissantes juridictions nationales parmi les régimes démocratiques — au...
La Constitution Anglaise - publié le 26/07/2006
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La constitution est un élément inhérent à l'existence d'une société politique. Elle précise les dispositions les formes et les rapports ayant trait au pouvoir ; que ce soit la hiérarchisation des différentes institutions politiques du pays où la supervision du rapport entre gouvernants et...
Advantages and disadvantages of having a written Constitution: the example of United Kingdom
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
A constitution is a legal document that sets out the relationships between the three main institutions of the state, that is to say the executive, the legislative and the judicial power, and that which also guarantees a certain amount of rights for the citizens. In a wider sense, and quoting...
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 ninth amendment: origins and controversy
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Select one amendment from the Bill of Rights and research why the Founding Fathers found it necessary to state it, and explain what had happened in England or Europe that brought about that amendment? Remember that we were a colony of England's for over one hundred years before the American...
The New Constitutionalism
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen
This essay is divided in two parts. In the first section, we will describe the influence of the European court of Justice on the evolution as observed by Weiler. In the latter half of the essay, we will try to view this theory from a critical bent of mind and relate this concept as an...
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 nature. For...
Conseils méthodologiques du droit international: les grands systèmes juridiques actuels
Cours - 35 pages - Droit international
La notion de système juridique a été construite à partir d'un constat selon lequel les systèmes normatifs des différents états sont non seulement distincts mais en plus présentent suffisamment de différences pour traduire des conceptions étroitement liées à la culture du pays qui leur a donné...
La nature du droit comparé et la macro-comparaison
Cours - 61 pages - Droit international
Le processus de mondialisation économique conduit les juristes à étudier les différents systèmes juridiques comme étant en compétition. Entre 1985 et 1990, le nombre d'échanges a été multiplié par 17, il faut donc faire évoluer les règles juridiques. Le droit anglo-américain tend à...
Cours complet d'introduction au droit anglais
Cours - 87 pages - Histoire du droit
Egalement, il s'agit d'une méthodologie différente et une logique différente. La logique juridique est distincte du système français. Du point de vue extérieur, le droit français est divisé en deux parties : droit public et droit privé, droit commun et droit d'exception, droit...
L'avocat salarié : évolution de la profession
Mémoire - 124 pages - Droit autres branches
Mirabeau a écrit : "Je ne connais que trois manières d'exister dans la société : il faut y être mendiant, voleur ou salarié". Cette pensée est au cœur de la loi du 31 décembre 1990 qui a autorisé l'exercice salarié de la profession d'avocat. Il sera démontré que le salariat est devenu...
Border Regulation, Freedom of Movement and Citizenship in the Third Pillar of the EU: Conflicting legal agendas.
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit européen
Within the United Kingdom (UK) there has been a long proud tradition of strong regulatory and independent oversight with respect to its national border security and integrity. The UK is a confederation of regional states some of which have semi-autonomous devolved legislatures, yet it maintains a...
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...
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...
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 Court...
The role of the ECJ's (European Court of Justice) : the consumer who is reasonably well-informed and reasonably observant and circumspect
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit européen
The legal term of the “average consumer” was created by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to protect the average consumer against unfair commercial practises. After the Second War World, many states were indeed inspired by Keynes's theory that aimed at division of resources and...
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...
