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...
La hiérarchie des normes - publié le 12/10/2021
Cours - 2 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les conflits de normes sont résolus par l'idée de hiérarchie des normes. Toutes les normes juridiques sont subordonnées les unes aux autres. C'est la pyramide kelsénienne imaginée par le plus grand juriste du XXe siècle, Hans Kelsen. Si deux normes ont le même auteur, la hiérarchie sera...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Les constitutions britannique et américaine
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La constitution est une notion assez complexe qui peut être envisagée de deux ou trois façons différentes. Matérielle, on tient ainsi compte de son contenu. Formelle, on tient cette fois-ci compte de la norme. Et normative, on tient compte de la hiérarchie des normes. La constitution est définie...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
Rwanda towards the abolition of capital punishment
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Droit international
Louise Harbor, the United Nations' Secretary of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed full satisfaction with the initiative of the Rwandan government to abolish their national law with regard to death penalty. According to the UN, the attempt is even more important...
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...
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 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...
The application of the European Arrest Warrant in the United Kingdom and its use in the fight against terrorism.
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is a judicial decision issued by a Member State with a view to the arrest and surrender by another Member State of a requested person, for the purposes of conducting a criminal prosecution or executing a custodial sentence or detention order.' The EAW is...
