Essay on the limits of freedom
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit autres branches
Document: Essay on the limits of freedom. Dissertation sur les limites à la liberté Extrait: For most people, freedom indicates a complete absence of constraints and limits. To be free, is to do what one want, to act with an own way, without being stopped by something or somebody....
Freedom of expression, a right between inviolability and flexibility
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit européen
The freedom of expression is one of the things that calls for conflicts. It is not permitted in the dictatorship in order to speak about everything. It is observed that very many subjects are forbidden. An example of a forbidden topic is the critical opinion on the power, on religion. The...
Privacy and surveillance society in the UK
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit international
"We live in a surveillance society ". This is the opening sentence of the Report on the Surveillance Society for the Information Commissioner published in September 2006. It states that Everyday life in the U.K. is monitored through the use of credit card, mobile phone, travel cards, loyalty card...
Crime and euthanasia
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit pénal
According to the dictionary, a crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. We can also consider that a crime is a deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms and cultural standards that...
Critically assess the significance of the EU as a source of regulation of Communication Technology in the UK with reference to the range and type of regulations and directives
Dissertation - 8 pages - Droit européen
Information Technology Law "is a set of recent legal enactments, currently in existence in several countries, which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally. These legal enactments cover a broad gambit of different aspects relating to computer software, protection of...
The installation of a phone mast near a school
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit civil
Peter is single and is employed by the Lobby Group Ltd., a professional, "non-profit" company that acts as a general lobby group for industrialists. Last year he moved to live in a town close to his place of employment. He discovered that the local green field site, adjoining the village...
To what extent have developments in individual rights in Britain delivered family friendly working practices, and with what implications for all relevant stakeholders
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit des affaires
Since New Labour came to power in May 1997 some developments in employments rights have aimed to promote the balancing between work and family life: “Families are the core of our society, but they are under pressure. Women and men struggle with choices over work and family...
Authors' rights in the Anglo-Saxon world
Dissertation - 8 pages - Propriété intellectuelle
The authors' rights are a very important problem of the modern economic world. The rules that regulate the authors' rights have always been created in the reaction of some social facts; they always have been late on the sociological and technical transformations. The first fundamental...
Women's difference in Law : essay on gender discrimination and Legal Equality
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit autres branches
In this document I will try to define the so-called differences between men and women, and see how they have been used to justify the discrimination against women. Secondly, I will analyze cases where gender differences are denied or not considered as strong enough to legitimate discrimination...
Principles and Practices of Consumer's Protection within the European Union
Dissertation - 19 pages - Droit européen
The objective of the European Union is to protect the health, safety and the economic well-being of its citizens. In this regard, it is the responsibility of the EU to promote the right to information, help in safeguarding the interests and encourage the member states to set up consumer...
Euthanasia / mercy killing : right to die in dignity or murder ?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit autres branches
Euthanasia or mercy killing is literally defined as "the practice of ending the life of a human who is incurably ill in a minimally painful way in the purpose of limiting suffering specially by a doctor or under his control." Euthanasia also concerns the act performed by anyone to...
Torture in America: Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo scandals (2008)
Dissertation - 3 pages - Libertés publiques
Nowadays, torture is universally condemned by states, but it is also carried out by them. In most cases, the act of inflicting severe pain - as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty- takes place in secret. However, that secrecy is...
Can constitutional courts be characterized as policy makers?
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Droit de la concurrence
The theme of political role of judges is an old one in the literature of democratic countries. Indeed, Alexis de Tocqueville already tackled the “political importance” of the courts in his famous Democracy in America (1835). The reason is that there is inevitably, in modern democracies,...
La vie privée en droit anglais et sa protection
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit autres branches
Le droit anglais ne dispose pas à l'origine de dispositions permettant une protection efficace de la vie privée. La notion même de vie privée est indéfinie légalement malgré de nombreuses tentatives depuis le début du siècle. Sous l'influence de rapports de différents comités et des...
"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...
L'impact des paris en ligne sur le sport dans la législation européenne : Etat des lieux et solutions
Mémoire - 59 pages - Droit européen
Respect de l'adversaire, respect de soi, solidarité, Fair-play, règles du jeu... Les valeurs attachées au sport sont multiples et régulièrement prônées par divers acteurs aux intentions variées. Pourtant l'actualité sportive présentée diverge et s'apparente d'avantage à des activités de...
Le régime parlementaire britannique, une séparation souple des pouvoirs ?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le système politique britannique trouve ses origines parmi la Grande Charte de 1215, le Human Rights Act de 1998 et le Constitutional Reform Act de 2005. Le système britannique présente pour le droit constitutionnel beaucoup d'intérêts. Tout d'abord, c'est un phénomène...
Why has the European Court of Justice been so central to the process of integration?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit européen
“Law is often still treated as if it were a separate field, clearly distinct from the economic or political spheres” . As the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has never been given a lot of media coverage, most of the time, its role in the integration process is either disregarded or...
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 in the...
Parenthood in French law and filiation
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit de la famille
The purpose of this paper is first to understand French parenthood, namely the way to be the legal father or mother of a child. Investigating further, we will see whether the current legislation is modern enough or not, which will be our main question. Indeed, some scholars and politicians think...
?The European Union Court of Justice is more relevant for the advance of the EU political unity than the Commission and the Parliament' - Discuss
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The European Union's political role has been a big issue among the main theoriticians of the European Union. The place of the European Parliament and the Commission in the process toward political unity is obvious. The Commission, as the institution which has the power for an initiative, can...
Criminology and criminal justice system
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit pénal
This paper will discuss the following statement:"According to the White Paper Justice for All, the Government has succeeded in increasing prison capacity by 18 per cent, and has improved conditions inside prisons. £20 million has been invested to boost prisoners' learning facilities, and a...
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 directors...
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 their...
Le terrorisme en Angleterre
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit pénal
La Grande Bretagne est habituée depuis fort longtemps aux attentats terroristes sur son territoire. En effet, elle a tout d'abord connu un terrorisme dit intra-étatique. motivé par des mouvements de protestation politique ou sociale. Ainsi en a-t-il été du problème irlandais. Celui-ci a pris...
Quelles sont les limites imposées à l'invocation par un État non directement lésé de violations d'obligations erga omnes partes par un autre État au cours de la procédure de règlement juridictionnel ?
Mémoire - 3 pages - Droit international
La protection des intérêts de la communauté qui rassemble les valeurs fondamentales partagées par les États de la communauté internationale dans son ensemble est devenue un enjeu majeur du droit international. Selon le juge Bruno Simma, « international law has undoubtedly entered a stage at which...
Droit anglais - méthode, environnement historique et philosophie
Cours - 59 pages - Droit international
Document: Cours de droit anglais de 50 pages. Extrait: Le Droit Anglais est façonné par l'histoire : tradition et procédure. L'Angleterre a eu un système centralisé très tôt par l'établissement des cours royales, de Common Law. Puis, se sont établies les juridictions concurrentes,...
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 death without...
L'instrumentalisation du concept humanitaire à la lumière du cas du Kosovo
Étude de cas - 52 pages - Droit international
« Lorsqu'un gouvernement (...) viole les droits de l'humanité, par des excès de cruauté et d'injustice qui blessent profondément nos moeurs et notre civilisation, le droit d'intervention est légitime. Car, quelque respectable que soient les droits de souveraineté et...
La notion de crime contre l'humanité
Cours - 23 pages - Droit international
La notion de crime contre l'humanité est un concept ancien mais elle ne trouve son origine juridique qu'après la Seconde Guerre mondiale avec l'instauration du Tribunal Militaire International de Nuremberg en 1945. Avant cette date, les actes portant atteinte à l'humanité étaient...
