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...
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...
Migration Law - A Human Right to Migration in International Law and European Community Law
Dissertation - 11 pages - Libertés publiques
To answer the question of the existence of the human right to migrate, the notion of migration and human right themselves must first be studied. Migration can be defined as a movement of persons from one country or locality to another one. Only international...
The clash of universalisms, Corporate abuses of human rights and international corporate responsibility
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit international
Economic History is a discipline not so distant from Law when it comes to understanding the complexity of relations mingling with the power of National States expressed by their faculty of producing law within a territory, and that of commercial enterprises. French economic historian Philippe...
Has the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Saadi v UK struck the right balance between the protection of human rights and the control of irregular migration?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The objective of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) may be defined to ensure the rights and fundamental liberties of any individual who enters the European territory and give remedies against unlawful actions by the States. However, it has in some cases had...
International human rights
Fiche - 1 pages - Droit international
Human rights principles have a long history, dating back to at least the Magna Carta of 1215. However, it is in the second half of the 20th century, notably with the creation of the United Nations (UN) in the aftermath of the Second World War, that the world community witnessed the...
The evolution of human rights enforcement
Dissertation - 8 pages - Droit international
The end of the second world conflict has set the beginning of the institutionalization of Human Rights at a world scale: the previous events have indeed made most of the country think about a way to reach a world consensus about basic rights that each single human...
European Human Rights Law
Fiche - 3 pages - Droit européen
Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights, imposes a duty on States to protect and respect life, and has put to another level the importance of positive obligations on States. The lawfulness of intentional and unintentional killings as well as the level of effectiveness...
The relationship between investment law and the human right: present provisions and proposals for the future
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
Since 1945, the investment law became more and more important with the development of the transnational corporations and the direct investments abroad within the framework of the globalization of flows of capital. The relationship with the countries of the South sets a major problem in this...
To what extent is the criminal justice system consistent with article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
At the heart of any legal system is the criminal justice system and is paramount that system is fair in order to be effective. This is ensured through a fair trial, without which, the whole system would be illegitimate. We only have to look to the political ?show trials' of the Nazi and...
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...
The politics of international Human Rights Law
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
The point of this essay is the observation of Human rights concerning some currents issues of International relations and social and political disorder; for example, in Tibet where it has been thought that the enforcement of some standards of Human rights would protect...
Human Rights Law: Essay on the Human Rights Act
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit autres branches
The State's "margin of appreciation" doctrine is a fundamental component of the European Convention system of Protection of Human Rights. While human rights are not a state's private area of jurisdiction, the idea of the European Convention on Human...
The role of domestic courts as guardians of the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of the European Court of Human Rights as "ultimate guardian of the Convention"
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit autres branches
As the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe said, the European Convention on Human Rights has a fundamental role. It assures the protection of individuals and creates positive obligations for States to ensure such a protection on behalf of common values of the High...
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...
Has the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 gone far enough in reforming the English law of privacy?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit des affaires
Under the doctrine of privacy, which became entrenched in English law in the latter half of the 19th century , contractual rights and liabilities are limited to the parties to the contract. The mounting criticisms and arguments for reform have led to the Contracts (Rights of Third...
Les crimes contre l'humanité devant la cour pénale internationale (acte d'accusation)
Cours - 25 pages - Droit international
D'autre part un rapport du CICR a relevé plus de 130.000 morts causés par des milices. Ces milices ont agi avec la bénédiction sinon la participation des autorités « Kariennes » selon un rapport du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies. En l'an (XVI), pendant l'occupation du « Kari »...
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...
International human rights law - publié le 18/12/2005
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
Today, various international instruments allow for the protection and respect of human rights. Thus, the International Bill of Rights is the basis composed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the two subsequent International Covenants of...
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...
Violations of human rights in Zimbabwe
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit international
Since 1998, the human rights situation has been deteriorating in Zimbabwe. President R. Mugabe intensified verbal attacks on the opposition, the judiciary and the press, as well as Zimbabwe's white minority, which amounted to the land crisis and practical violations of...
The Relationship between international law of human rights and international law applicable to armed conflict
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
In the modern scenario, the protection of human rights has found its rightful place in international law. It has been a revolutionary reform, as it had no significant place a few decades ago. The international law applicable to armed conflicts (also called international humanitarian...
Cour Suprême du Royaume-Uni, Lee v. Ashers Baking Company Ltd and others et Cour Suprême des États-Unis, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission - L'articulation de la liberté religieuse avec la non-discrimination en matière d'orientation sexuelle à travers les contentieux récents aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni
Mémoire - 52 pages - Libertés publiques
Le présent mémoire s'insère dans un contexte de droit comparé. Il ne s'agit donc pas d'un mémoire de droit étranger visant à fournir les informations relatives au système juridique du pays étudié. Il va bien au-delà, le but de cette étude, étant une mise en perspective de deux...
Human rights - Beyond the universalistic / relativistic paradigm: how to promote a common and cultural-sensitive approach ofmoral principles
Dissertation - 14 pages - Libertés publiques
This article underlines the limitations of the relativistic/universalistic paradigm in regard to the human rights qualification. It defends a third path which consists in a genuine intercultural dialogue, taking into account local specificities in order to promote common moral...
Human Rights of the Dead : Posthumous interests
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit civil
The question of death and the deceased is at the core of the definition of human rights. Dead persons do not perceive harm: they are not in contact with the world and are unaware of reality considering they do not exist. They cannot claim their rights neither can they file a...
Dans quelle mesure peut-on dire que le régime britannique connait une séparation des pouvoirs ?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
S'il fallait qualifier le régime britannique en une phrase, régime parlementaire par excellence, ce serait son attachement aux traditions qui ont fait de lui un système reconnu pour sa stabilité et sa pérennité. Dans l'Histoire constitutionnelle britannique, ce dernier connaît la toute...
Le système politique du Royaume-Uni : bipartisme, Cabinet, etc.
Cours - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le Royaume-Uni est l'une des rares démocraties fondées sur une constitution souple, principalement coutumière, reposant sur quelques textes fondamentaux tels que : - La Magna Carta (ou Grande Charte) datant de 1215 et qui limite le pouvoir royal. - The Bill Of Rights datant de 1689 qui...
Est-il toujours possible d'affirmer le caractère parlementaire du régime britannique ?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La question qui se pose réellement est la suivante : où réside le pouvoir politique au Royaume-Uni et quel régime politique est réellement adopté ? Est-il toujours question de régime parlementaire ? Ou ce régime n'est désormais qu'un « mythe théorique » ? En d'autres termes : est-il...
Le Royaume-Uni a-t-il une constitution ? - publié le 08/04/2021
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La Constitution du Royaume-Uni se compose de règles constitutionnelles non écrites issues de la loi, de la jurisprudence, d'usages constitutionnels. Les premières règles font leur apparition au Moyen Âge. Aujourd'hui, le Royaume-Uni est l'un des deux seuls États occidentaux à...
Le Royaume-Uni a-t-il une constitution ?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le système britannique est le plus ancien des systèmes encore en vigueur aujourd'hui. En effet, de nombreux textes de droit proviennent du Moyen Âge et certaines institutions perdurent depuis le XVIIIe siècle. De plus, le système anglais a permis l'élaboration du régime parlementaire, qui...
