Le rôle du président de la République dans le système politique américain
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Depuis un point de vue juridique, les États-Unis se distinguent et se caractérisent par leur "Checks and Balances System", lequel fait référence à un système d'interdépendance des pouvoirs qui possèdent des moyens mutuels de neutralisation, ce qui les oblige à collaborer incessamment au...
Le président des États-Unis et le Congrès
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les élections de mi-mandat qui auront lieu le 6 novembre prochain sont l'occasion de mettre en lumière les jeux de pouvoir politique des États-Unis et d'en présenter les grandes notions. Selon la Constitution de 1787, les États-Unis sont basés sur une organisation de type fédéral et sur...
La fonction du Congrès des États-Unis - En quelle mesure les fonctions exercées par le Congrès ont-elles été préservées depuis 1789 ?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Pas de taxation sans représentation, s'indignent les colons américains du milieu du XVIIIe siècle lorsque la métropole décide d'augmenter les taxes visant des denrées qui proviennent d'Amérique. Ces colons n'ont alors pas de représentant officiel au Parlement et la défense de...
Comment peut-on assurer un équilibre politique dans un régime où la séparation des pouvoirs est absente ?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les États-Unis, connus pour être l'archétype du régime présidentiel, l'est aujourd'hui grâce à plusieurs facteurs de bases, dont juridiques et politiques. Les premières, se mettent en place par le biais de la Constitution américaine qui est une des plus anciennes constitutions écrites...
Ending contractual obligations: factors and discharge
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit des obligations
The common law has always taken the view that people enter into contract voluntarily. It follows that if the contract was made without full knowledge of the facts, or if a person was forced to make a contract against his or her will, a court would consider that contract to be banned. The vast...
Aux Etats-Unis, séparation et collaboration des pouvoirs sont-elles à opposer ?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit constitutionnel
"Pour qu'on ne puisse abuser du pouvoir, il faut que par la disposition des choses, le pouvoir arrête le pouvoir". Cette citation de Montesquieu issue de son livre "De l'esprit des lois" (1748) illustre parfaitement en quelques mots la nature du régime présidentiel à l'américaine,...
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 ICC...
The evolution of European judicial cooperation in criminal matters since the Maastricht Treaty
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit européen
This project intends to examine the objectives of judicial cooperation throughout the European Union (hereinafter EU) and the area of freedom, security and justice to ensure a high level of security by mutual recognition of judgment concerning criminal matters. Attention will be drawn to how...
Free movement of goods and person within the Europe
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit européen
Since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957, the euro area is the geographical and economic EUROPE. Since 1957, new treaties such as Schengen and Maastricht were signed. Europe and its laws allow us to develop economic relations between the member states. Thus barriers fall, the duties are...
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 ground...
« In an EU of 25 members, all the old certainties will disappear. Discuss. »
Fiche - 6 pages - Droit européen
Europe has 15 member states. If the European Union is enlarged, it will not be the same at a bigger scale. The sphere of action of the European institutions is changing and it has to be adapted to a brand new structure. The socio-economic disparities between the Europe of 15 member states and 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...
Vienna Convention of April 11, 1980 on International Contracts of Sale of Goods
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit international
This convention is in effect at least 59 countries are parted to this convention (Russia, Australia, Canada, USA, China, Spain…). This convention is not in effect in the United Kingdom, however in some cases it even applies in UK, because it is a very far reaching convention. This convention...
International business law: final assignment
Dissertation - 16 pages - Droit international
I am the president of Natural Vitamins Inc ("Natural Vitamins?) which manufactures and sells all-natural vitamins and food supplements in the United States, mainly through chiropractors. I founded the company with David and Corinne, owning about 65% of the capital all together. Our company,...
Le cabotage maritime : un axe d'amélioration de la performance environnementale du transport de marchandises
Mémoire - 16 pages - Droit de l'environnement
Le cabotage maritime, aussi appelé Transport Maritime à Courte Distance (TMCD) ou « Short Sea Shipping », est défini par le dictionnaire Larousse comme : « la navigation marchande non loin des côtes ». Au sens étymologique du terme, le cabotage signifie « de cap en cap ». Plus spécialement, «...
Le régime présidentiel américain est-il le régime du Président ?
Cours - 11 pages - Histoire du droit
Actuellement, de nombreux points de la réforme du système de santé proposée par Barack Obama se heurtent à l'opposition parlementaire ; on se rend donc bien compte que les projets du Président ne peuvent être réalisés par sa seule volonté.
Competition law
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit autres branches
Competition law has different forms of laws according to the causes of concern it has in various countries. The first aspect of its function is to protect individuals, consumers, against the power of monopolies or different corporations, and against agreements on various levels of production and...
Regulating the private military industry (Insight into an incomplete framework)
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
In his farewell address to the American people, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation to be wary of the military-industrial relationship. Less than 50 years later public attention is once again directed to this relationship due to the unequalled privatization of the conflict in Iraq. The...
CAVEJ M1 Cours Anglais juridique
Cours - 120 pages - Droit autres branches
So now, let's examine what is a contract at English law. Before we actually go into the details of the characteristics of English contracts, it is necessary to define what precisely a contract is. Essentially, in English law, a contract is an agreement between two or more parties that the...
International Criminal Court
Cours - 19 pages - Droit international
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the only independent and permanent court which deals with the most serious crimes committed by people, which are genocide, crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICCs based on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
High Court of Justice Chancery Division on 29th October 2008, Carr v Beavan: the testamentary capacity
Commentaire d'arrêt - 4 pages - Droit civil
The court has to focus on the testator mental capacity at the time of making his will, since a man diminished in physical and even mental strength may nevertheless make a valid will, provided that he was in possession of his full capacity at the precise time of the writing of the will. In order...
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...
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...
Comparative study of the cohabitation contract in Greece and the PACS (Civil solidarity pact) in France
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit de la famille
We are going to see the differences and the similarities between the recent cohabitation contract in Greece and the PACS in france which are forms of civil union, marriage. This comparative study will be based on the greek bill about the cohabitation pact and the french bill concerning the PACS....
How the "author's rights" are treated domestically under the law of France and how "copyright" is treated domestically under the law of United State of America?
Étude de cas - 15 pages - Droit international
The intellectual property refers both for brands analysis, commercial secrets, from patents to copyrights. It was at the beginning used by jurists only, it has been the subject of increased attention by the economists since the 1980s, and gradually spread as the certainty that produce ideas had...
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...
Three Case Studies of Business Law
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit des affaires
In the first situation, we can identify three main issues. First of all, the order arrived a few days late. Then the Buyer asserts that the MP3 Players were damaged by moisture by the ship's hull. These two problems are linked to each other: the Buyers wants us to cut the sell price from...
The TRIPS Agreement and the access to medication (L'accord ADPIC et l'acces aux medicaments) - The controversy over intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals and access to medical treatment
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The controversy over intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals, and access to medical treatments in developing countries has been the subject of many public debates recently. The core challenge of this debate is to ensure access to pharmaceuticals in developing countries while at the same...
Primacy / Supremacy of European Community Law against Sovereignty of the Member States
Mémoire - 25 pages - Droit européen
Today the European Union (EU) consists of 27 Member States; it reaches from the Atlantic coast of Western Europe all the way to the Black Sea of Eastern Europe. In the European Union, the most important and closest collaboration between the Member States happens via the European Community (EC)....
Explain and discuss the effectiveness of the EC Treaty provisions concerning state aids in preventing distortions to the operation of the single market
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit européen
As recognised by the EC Treaty, state aids are important and necessary policy instruments to achieve social and economic goals. However, depending on the way in which they are given, State aids can have a material impact on competition, leading to significant distortions to the common market. An...
