L'exception britannique est-elle toujours d'actualité ?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
L'exception de la Grande-Bretagne se reflète dans son système politique, en particulier parce que sa constitution matérielle couvre toutes les normes juridiques liées à la décentralisation et à la hiérarchie des normes et au libre exercice du pouvoir. La constitution dépend de la culture...
La souveraineté du Parlement britannique
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La Grande-Bretagne a un système qui est le fruit de l'évolution politique, une évolution empirique et graduelle, avec une monarchie vue depuis longtemps comme un modèle de régime parlementaire (à l'instar de Montesquieu). Il faut observer ne serait-ce que sa Constitution, qui est une...
Comment s'organisent les Constitutions britannique et américaine ? En quoi se ressemblent ou se différencient-elles ?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les constitutions britanniques et américaines sont totalement différentes, mais projettent aussi dans certains cas des points communs. Il s'agit de s'intéresser à la formation des Constitutions, et d'identifier l'organisation qu'elles permettent pour les institutions de...
Le régime politique de la Grande Bretagne : le régime parlementaire
Cours - 11 pages - Droit constitutionnel
C'est en Angleterre que le régime parlementaire s'est imposé en premier. Il y a eu un véritable effacement du monarque. Premier événement : l'absence de responsabilité du roi, ce qui ne favorise pas sa légitimité. Par ailleurs, l'influence de la Révolution, avec deux événements...
The protection of women under human rights law, international criminal law and international humanitarian law
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
International Women's Day is on the 8th of March. It is a day for women to remember "nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development?. It is also an opportunity to look at the advances made in the protection of women. Women are all different but the group "women" is...
Quels sont les éléments de responsabilité identifiables au sein du conflit israélo-palestinien ?
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Droit international
Le conflit israélo-palestinien constitue l'un des terrains les plus documentés en matière de violations du droit international humanitaire (DIH) et des droits de l'homme. Les cycles d'hostilités de 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021 et 2023 / 2025 ont suscité plus de vingt rapports des...
L'État de droit : un modèle d'État commun en Europe ?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La notion d'État de droit s'est beaucoup développée depuis l'Antiquité. Sa définition et son application ne sont jamais parvenues à faire consensus. En effet, elles sont très subjectives et dépendent de l'histoire, de la culture de chaque État. Actuellement la notion d'État de...
Le royaume-uni a-t-il une constitution ? - publié le 21/11/2021
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
En 1769, selon le journaliste britannique Bagehot : "l'efficacité secrète de la Constitution anglaise réside dans l'étroite union, dans la fusion presque complète du pouvoir exécutif et du pouvoir législatif", ce qui définissait alors le régime parlementaire utilisé au Royaume-Uni. Mais...
Droit comparé : les principaux systèmes juridiques, leurs interactions et convergences
Cours - 44 pages - Droit autres branches
Dès qu'il y a société, il y a du droit. Chaque société a son propre droit, et donc il est possible de le comparer avec le nôtre ou comparer les systèmes normatifs entre eux. La comparaison peut s'effectuer à différents niveaux : - Entre droits semblables, mais qui se différencient sur...
La Constitution britannique est-elle non écrite ?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
David Butler établit un constat fondamental "Toutes les Constitutions évoluent, mais une Constitution non écrite évolue dans l'ombre". Cette affirmation induit qu'il existe différents types de constitutions. Dans un État de droit, la Constitution est la règle la plus élevée de l'ordre...
CAVEJ L1 Anglais juridique
Cours - 222 pages - Droit autres branches
Wales remained a separate entity from England until the 16th century. Wales is composed of a number of principalities (principautés) with distinct characteristics. Those differences resulted in various conflicts until the middle Ages. Fortunately, in 1536, the Act of Union integrated...
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...
English legal system: the Sources of English Law
Cours - 87 pages - Droit constitutionnel
The judicial decisions are the first to be found to develop a system. Today, they are still influencing the system as a whole. Judicial decisions have a weight that their continental counter part does not have. In England, under certain requirements, decisions are biding the judge with the...
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...
Conflict of Laws
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit civil
The recognition of same-sex marriage is becoming an issue in many countries, and there are today 14 countries allowing same-sex marriage, including Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, and 11 states of the United States. In Ireland however, as...
Essay: Poverty and Global Justice
Dissertation - 17 pages - Droit international
Pregs Govender is a deputy from the South African Human Rights Commission deeply implicated in Human Rights issues in South Africa. She strongly highlighted the urgency of the situation in South Africa concerning poverty by affirming that « Sixteen million people, mostly woman, in...
Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza case analysis
Commentaire d'arrêt - 4 pages - Droit autres branches
In the United Kingdom, where there is no written Constitution, the section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has given the courts the prerogative to read and give effect to statutes “in a way which is compatible with the Convention rights ”. If it cannot be done so, the...
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 the...
The role (present and future) of the European Court of Justice in the protection of asylum-seekers in the European Union
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit international
The European Court of Justice has laid down a legal Act pertaining to the judicial protection towards asylum seekers. However, this act is not completely flawless. Even if all the Member States ratify the new constitution and it be made effective thereafter, the future of the asylum...
L'Alien Tort Statute : un instrument controversé pour engager la responsabilité internationale devant les juridictions civiles américaines
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Droit international
L'Alien Tort Statute, également appelé Alien Tort Claim Act ou Alien Tort Act par la doctrine et la jurisprudence, fut adopté par le premier Congrès américain le 24 septembre 1789 en tant que partie intégrante du Federal Judiciary Act . Il est actuellement transposé à la...
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...
Assessing the impact of parental marital status in relation to Irish child law: should Constitution be amended?
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Droit des affaires
“It cannot be contested that a person born outside marriage, is a human person, equal to one born within marriage” . In this statement, Justice Walsh points out the differential treatment between marital and non-marital children which is derived from the Irish Constitution. By...
Right to life
Cours - 3 pages - Libertés publiques
Over the centuries, the religions and philosophies of the whole world firmly followed the act of taking away human life. The international law of Human Rights tried in its turn to change this perspective with a number of treaties to protect human life against the...
Constitutional law applicable in the Anglo-Saxon - parliamentary sovereignty
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
One of the key characteristics of British Constitution is the dominance of the Parliament. The Parliament is the main legislative body in British Constitution. It is bicameral; and is composed of two chambers, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The main functions of the Parliament 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...
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...
Le travail à temps partiel en vertu de la législation polonaise du travail
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit européen
Part-time work is one of the most important forms of employment connected with the promotion of flexibility of working time. It relates to a wider phenomenon - the flexible, nearly free from labour law legal regulations, human resources management performed and modified according to the...
European Labour law: Compare and contrast the role and concerns of International Law with those of European Law in the field of Employment
Thèse - 7 pages - Droit européen
Employment law is a contract between an employer and an employee; it is issues regarding employment, workplace discrimination and other private law issues. With the evolution of the International and the European law, Employment law has evolved in parallel and must deal with new concerns. In...
The United States and the International Criminal Court: How valid are the US arguments for not joining the International Court ?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit international
A new jurisdiction in the history of international accountability of human rights is being set up, but with a limited action which makes it different than a world court. In this document we will analyze the justifications for the lack of commitment by the United States of America towards...
The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit international
The Preamble of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) first recognizes serious crimes committed in the 20th Centur. It refers directly to genocides and crimes against humanity committed all around the world in the past century. As recent examples of those terrible tragedies,...
