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 troubles to strike 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...
Family Law: Comparison France Vs. China
Dissertation - 20 pages - Droit de la famille
During the last century, the Chinese government decided to abolish the old family system and establish a new family idea: the socialist family system (the Marriage Code of 1950). This marked a turning point in Chinese common law and the beginning of a new family way of thinking. With this new...
Comparative study - sociological and legal perspective over the national and the EU policies in France, Sweden and Spain
Étude de cas - 13 pages - Droit européen
Professional immigration in France is organised in such a manner to complete the needs of companies and to be adapted to France's accommodation and working capacities, while taking into consideration economic situation in the country. France does not formally distinguish immigrants on the...
Finnish administrative law: the administrative procedure in Finland from a French perspective
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit administratif
Finland has its own administrative judicial system. After the first decision by an administrative authority, the citizens can appeal to an administrative court system. It is composed of nine provincial administrative authorities, representing the first level of jurisdiction. Then, the top...
Euro can it survive the Eurozone?
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Droit européen
Since its creation and introduction in the early 2000s, the euro so fascinated the people, leaders and institutions worldwide. Supposed to bring the European peoples harmonizing monetary and financial system, facilitating trade between countries, and avoid tedious conversion processes,despite all...
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 primary...
Massachussets versus Environmental Protection Agency
Commentaire d'arrêt - 4 pages - Droit international
This decision dealt with environmental matters and was regarded as one of the most important environmental Supreme Court decisions in years. If one in the present age delves into this case, the insights would have a grave impact on the pollution control and globalization boom. The case begins...
How far, if at all, does it matter that the United Kingdom does not have a written constitution?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit européen
Today, the majority of states have written constitutions. It is generally seen as a prerequisite for any new state. They arise due to political events, such as the one formulated in 1793 consequent to the French Revolution. In a state with a written constitution, that one document is the supreme...
Kompetenz-Kompetenz
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Droit autres branches
The kompetenz-kompetenz doctrine is generally understood as the arbitral tribunal's authority to rule on the scope, validity and existence of the arbitration agreement if any of these are challenged, and thereby to rule essentially also on its own jurisdiction. Although under this doctrine...
Influence of media and legal institutions on one another
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
This essay aims at showing the necessary but dangerous interactivity existing between media and legal institutions: each of them need to be independent but in the same time they both need each other. The following pages will answer the subsequent problem: can legal institutions resist the media...
How do the Federal Republic of Germany, Fifth Republic France and post-war Italy fulfil the criteria of Lijphart's 'majoritarian' and 'consensus' models of democracies?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
This essay will attempt to analyse the Federal Republic of Germany, Fifth Republic France and post-war Italy thanks to Lijphart's work Democracy (1984). Lijphart classifies the ‘majoritarian' model (or ‘Westminster model') and the ‘consensual model', in function of specific...
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...
The Salomon case
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Droit des affaires
Since the Salomon case, the doctrine of separate corporate personalities constitutes the corner stone of British company law. Thus, a properly incorporated company is considered as having a legal personality of its own and ought to be treated as a legal entity distinct from its shareholders even...
L'Espace de Liberté, de Sécurité et de Justice (ELSJ)
Cours - 11 pages - Droit européen
L'ELSJ est un cadre au sein de l'UE qui garantit aux citoyens un environnement sûr, où leurs droits sont protégés et la justice accessible. Il couvre les politiques d'asile, d'immigration, de coopération judiciaire civile et pénale, ainsi que la coopération policière.
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 section 4(2)...
"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 "existing...
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 lawsuit. It could be...
La formation du mariage
TD - 5 pages - Droit de la famille
Depuis tous temps, la question du mariage est un problème épineux, épineux car pendant bien longtemps, et c'est presque encore vrai aujourd'hui, le mariage était le véritable cœur du droit de la famille, ou du moins il en constituait la base. Ce droit de la famille apparaît comme un...
The use of information in France
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit autres branches
In France, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés or CNIL is an independent administrative authority whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data. We are going to present some laws over the right...
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...
Essay on restitution obligations throughout Europe
Dissertation - 18 pages - Droit européen
Restitutionary obligation is the response to unjust enrichment. Unjust Enrichment at the expense of another must be restituted in order to secure a corrective justice. On this very basis restitutionary, as opposed to compensation, aims to deprive the defendant of a gain rather than to compensate...
La signification de la citoyenneté dans le contexte d'expulsion
Cours - 8 pages - Libertés publiques
L'actuelle mondialisation est caractérisée par un clivage Nord/Sud qui a une incidence considérable sur les flux migratoires. Ces décisions de migrations ont lieu dans différents contextes, mais ont pour point commun l'obligation pour le migrant de penser son parcours en fonction des frontières...
Crimes et culture
Dissertation - 28 pages - Droit pénal
« Les populations exogènes sont-elles criminogènes ? ». Les vagues successives d'immigration ont souvent fait l'objet de profondes inquiétudes de la part de la population française. De nombreux débats se sont ainsi créés autour de ces phénomènes au cours des dernières décennies. Le...
Le droit des étrangers en France - publié le 20/11/2009
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit autres branches
Depuis trente ans dans un contexte économique difficile, la crise de l'hospitalité à l'égard des exilés a entraîné une succession de réformes du droit d'asile et du droit au séjour des étrangers conduisant à précariser leur statut administratif en France. Dans un contexte de crise...
Le droit des étrangers
Dissertation - 6 pages - Libertés publiques
En France, le droit des étrangers constitue la règlementation qui organise non seulement l'entrée des ressortissants étrangers sur le territoire, mais aussi leur séjour et leur sortie du territoire. En effet, une fois entrés sur le territoire français, les étrangers sont soumis aux lois...
La famille et la police des étrangers
Dissertation - 9 pages - Libertés publiques
Nous nous attacherons ici à la confrontation de deux notions, qui nous le verront, peuvent apparaître fortement antonymiques. Il s'agit en premier lieu de la notion de famille, entendue d'un point de vue français. Autrement dit, de la définition que l'État français donne du terme de «...
Egalité entre Français et étrangers
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit administratif
Pays de faible natalité, la France a été largement ouverte à l'immigration étrangère, qui a régulièrement été supérieure à l'émigration depuis le début du XIXe siècle, sauf de 1851 à 1872 et de 1931 à 1936. On comptait 1 150 000 étrangers en France en 1911, soit 2,8 % de la population,...
Nation et nationalité
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
Pour le Petit Robert, une nation est « un groupe humain constituant une communauté politique, établie sur un territoire défini et personnifiée par une autorité souveraine ». En effet, on constate que la Nation est notion éminemment politique : une nation est d'une part un état, et d'autre...
Droit d'asile et droit communautaire
Cours - 5 pages - Droit européen
La question des réfugiés a commencé à se poser vers le milieu des années 1970, avec l'apparition d'un « phénomène de mondialisation des courants migratoires ». Face à la nécessité de contrôler ces flux de migrations, les Etats européens ont décidé, à partir des années 1980, de coordonner leurs...
