Presidency of India
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
The President of India is the head of State as the first citizen of India, and has therefore an important role to play in the political system. He has special duties and powers, which give him importance in the Indian political life. This function first appeared with the Indian Constitution that...
Droit public
Cours - 155 pages - Droit administratif
Le droit est aussi ancien que la vie en société : à partir du moment où les hommes sont entrés dans l'ère de l'existence collective, ils ont éprouvé le besoin de régler leurs rapports. Depuis, l'époque primitive, le droit a subi de profondes mutations : la diversification des règles suit en effet...
The american jury
Fiche - 3 pages - Droit international
Document: The american jury, fiche de droit américain de 4 pages, en anglais Extrait: In the beginning, juries were only composed of witnesses who had seen what had happened and who were under the judge's authority. Little by little, jurors become independent from the judge but also from...
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
Commentaire d'arrêt - 2 pages - Droit civil
Several elements were involved in this case. To sum up, Hustler Magazine printed an issue showing a satirical caricature about 'the first time' of a public figure, Jerry Falwell, who is a preacher and a Baptist Minister, insinuating that it was with his own mother, in an outhouse and...
The Lisbon Treaty: European Federation?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The word 'federal' isn't mentioned in any European treaty. The European authorities have decided to avoid referring to this system of governance to talk about the European project. However, the concept of a European federation hides beneath all European treaties. Applied to states, in...
Accor vs. Overture: Intellectual Propriety vs. Searching engine's adwords
Étude de cas - 17 pages - Droit des affaires
The introduction of an article should provide the reader with a short explanation of the issue to be discussed, a summary of what will be discussed in the paper, and a general idea of what the author's viewpoint on the issue is, and possible solutions to resolve the issue. In January 2002,...
The distribution of power an its future evolution in the European decision making institutions
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit européen
How is the power shared in the main European decision making institutions and how will it change with the near enlargement and the ratification of new institutional treaties? This paper analyzes the distribution of power in the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European...
The European Institutions
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
The debates and referendums on the project of European Constitution will contribute greatly to give birth to a real European public opinion. The new generation of EU institutions will therefore have to serve not only the historic actors of the European construction - administrations and...
Under what circumstances do you think states should intervene in humanitarian crises?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
Humanitarian intervention deals with two academic fields: political philosophy and international law. The question of intervention depends on the morality and on the legality of the intervention. Is humanitarian intervention a moral duty for different states? Is humanitarian intervention a right...
Comparative Criminal Law: comparison between the French and the American system by studying Brenton Butler case
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit international
In this document, we present the Brenton Butler case, where Mary Ann Stephens, who was a holiday, is shot in the head in front of her husband. Later, Brenton Butler, a 15 year old Black citizen, was arrested just because he was in a street near the place of crime and it was confirmed that he was...
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 being could expect to be given...
Work contracts
Présentation - 8 pages - Droit du travail
ce power point décrit tous les contracts existants en France, les éléments obligatoires que les entreprises doivent compléter afin de recruter des salariés ainsi que contenu des différents contrats: cdi, cdd, contrat...
Le droit de la succession d'Etats et le respect des obligations contractuelles de l'Etat succédant : actifs et dettes privées
Cours - 72 pages - Droit international
Le phénomène d'apparition et de disparition d'Etats, issu de la succession d'Etats, ne se produit pas fréquemment. Il se situe généralement dans un contexte historique particulier, comme nous pouvons le constater à travers les âges. C'est ainsi que, pour les Etats...
Main personnel representatives of portugal
Présentation - 2 pages - Droit du travail
this power point deals with the main personnel representatives of Portugal. It first explains what is a personnel representative, the, explains the way to elect them, their missions, duties, their means and finally the status they have.........................;
Droit de la Common Law : les torts de négligences et particuliers
Cours - 48 pages - Droit international
Le principe est que cette évolution historique traditionnellement anglo-saxonne est divisée en quatre grandes étapes, quatre grandes périodes. Tout d'abord, du XIIe siècle à 1800. Dans cette période, le principe à retenir est que le droit de la responsabilité civile délictuelle dans les...
The future of the EU - Federalization: a far-reaching goal of European integration ?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit européen
The debate on the future of Europe originated from the Nice Treaty. Two years ago, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer re-launched the idea of a European federation, which he called a "federation of nation-states?. The notion of "federation of nation-states? was inspired by J.Delors'...
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...
Le statut du combattant en droit international humanitaire: mécanisme d'exclusion des acteurs indesirables sur la scène internationale
Cours - 19 pages - Droit international
L'ambition du droit international humanitaire a toujours été annoncée comme ayant pour but d'humaniser la guerre. En ce sens, il s'est donné pour mission de « limiter les effets des conflits armés ».Pour cela,les Conventions de Genève et leurs Protocoles additionnels ont créé une catégorisation...
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...
Critically discuss the contributions of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement to international legal scholarship
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
After the World War II and its atrocities, a new international institution, the United Nations (UN) was created in 1945 to focus on the new challenges faced by the international community. One of the major challenges was the wave of decolonization which started between the two World wars. It was...
Exploring the hypothesis that at the centre of a unified and coherent theory of international justice is the idea of the duty to protect." Terry Nardin, "International political theory and the question of justice", 464
Commentaire de texte - 1 pages - Droit international
Terry Nardin explains in this article his theory of the duty to protect. As far as he is concerned, the major issues are a better definition of the issues of international justice and a solution to the problem of enforcement in international justice. The international justice issue is two-fold:...
« 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...
L'État, les acteurs et la participation politique
Cours - 93 pages - Histoire du droit
Ce document comporte des fiches qui résument un cours de droit portant sur l'État et reprenant les idées majeures forgeant cette notion.
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,...
Proposition de corrigé d'une note de synthèse sur le juge d'instruction
Note de synthèse - 3 pages - Histoire du droit
Document: Proposition de corrigé pour la note de synthèse intitulée : Le juge d'instruction est-il toujours « l'homme le plus puissant de France » ? (2 pages) Extrait: La perte de puissance du juge d'instruction s'est manifestée progressivement au travers de différentes...
Cours complet: Introduction au droit constitutionnel
Cours - 52 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le droit constitutionnel moderne a un triple objet. Tout d'abord, le droit constitutionnel a pour objet de décrire les institutions politiques, d'étudier les problèmes juridiques qui les concernent, d'exposer quelles sont les bases constitutionnelles des institutions administratives...
Copyright of employed persons' creations
Fiche - 11 pages - Droit autres branches
In Australia, the copyright law gives the creator or the author of a piece of writing the first ownership of copyright. In fact, section 35(2) of the Copyright Act 1968 provides that: "Subject to this section, the author of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is the owner of any...
Entre protectionnisme et intégration économique : le rôle de la réforme du droit de l'investissement étranger au Vietnam
Mémoire - 133 pages - Droit des affaires
Le 29 novembre 2005, le Vietnam réformait son droit de l'investissement étranger par l'adoption d'une loi qui jusque dans son intitulé prétendait favoriser l'intégration économique du pays. Il s'agissait de la Loi Commune sur les Investissements, la LCI . En quoi l'idée d'une loi « commune »...
The American Criminal Legal System
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit pénal
The historical importance of the rule of law, which is one of the main values of the Founding Fathers, can be highlighted in this essay. However, recent trends show that Americans tend to be less confident with regard to their system than they used to be. OJ Simpson's case has well revealed...
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...
