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08 Mars 2007
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What are the main differences between the civil and the common law systems ?

Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen

The majority of legal authors divide the legal systems of the world into two mains groups : the common law on one hand, and the civil law on the other hand . The most interesting is that when you try to find definitions for those words, you often find the basic definition, and then,...

21 févr. 2011
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Contract Law : A review

Fiche - 8 pages - Droit civil

What is a Contract? A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties with mutual obligations. It's essentially a case law subject, i.e.,interpretations are made by judges while deciding on the legal issues....

14 mai 2007
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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 Parties)...

24 mai 2008
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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...

28 avril 2008
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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 Rights (ECHR) is that this statute...

04 juil. 2012
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Critical assessment of the contribution of Rome II to the subject of choice of law in tort

Étude de cas - 12 pages - Droit des affaires

The Rome II Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations(hereafter referred to as “Rome II”) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on July 11th 2007. It was the result of a long process that started in 1967 with the preparation of the Rome...

28 Nov. 2009
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Constitutional and administrative law

Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel

The rule of law' is a system of rule in which the relationship between the State and the individual is governed by the law, protecting the individual from arbitrary state action.The rule of law is better understood by translating it into French as 'primauté du...

10 mai 2010
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Public international law - the problems associated with the proliferation of international judicial bodies

Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit international

Since the end of the Cold War, a new phenomenon in international law has surfaced: the proliferation of international judicial bodies as a consequence of the increasing number of treaties. More than just a numeral observation, there have been changes concerning the nature and competences...

25 avril 2008
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Essay on the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations

Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit européen

The Rome Convention on the Law applicable to contractual obligations “applies to contractual obligations in any situation involving a choice between the laws of different countries.” The scope of the Convention is therefore clear; its aim is to regulate contractual...

29 mai 2010
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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)....

18 mai 2009
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How European Law Is Made?

Fiche - 1 pages - Droit européen

The European Union was created in 1992 by the Maastricht treaty. It is a structure which includes the European Community and its law which is by far the most important of EU laws and deals with economic and social rights. In addition to it, other sources of law complete the...

11 Oct. 2000
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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...

07 févr. 2010
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Advanced legal search and writing on the case of Gregg v Scott [2005] U K H L 2 and a discussion on the concept and outcome of including a so called Romalpa Clause in a contract as a form of security for a debt

Étude de cas - 9 pages - Droit international

A lot of people don't recognise writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it as in anything else. What is true for an author is true for a lawyer. Legal Research and Writing is indeed a subject one has to apprentice in, in order to be able to later practice it properly. The...

08 Mars 2007
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Competition law - publié le 08/03/2007

Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen

The area of EC Competition Law has experienced major structural and substantial changes over the past two decades. The last decade of reforms of EC Competition Law is often cited as the « modernisation process » . Since competition rules always apply to a « market », this notion...

30 Janv. 2008
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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...

03 déc. 2010
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Droit écrit et Common Law

Cours - 4 pages - Droit autres branches

Les rapports « Doing Business » publiés par la Banque Mondiale en 2004 et 2005, en considérant que le système de droit écrit était moins favorable au développement des affaires que le système de Common Law, ont entraîné de vives réactions et fait resurgir l'opposition entre ces deux...

21 Sept. 2010
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Cases study - Gebhard, Vlassopoulo and Klopp

Étude de cas - 9 pages - Droit européen

Case 1 - Mr. Gebhard was a German lawyer: he was a member of the Stuttgart Bar as ‘independent collaborator' and did not have any chamber there. He pursued a professional activity in Italy since 1978, initially as a collaborator in a set of chambers of lawyers practising in...

27 juin 2010
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Cas pratiques de droit international privé - la qualification

Cas Pratique - 11 pages - Droit international

Cas pratique n°1 - Eve Eulue est une jeune femme comblée. De nationalité française, elle a prévu d'épouser Martin Berbe, un charmant citoyen britannique. Eve et Martin se sont rencontrés à Paris, où ils résident tous deux, mais ont préféré organiser leur mariage dans un pays au climat plus...

11 avril 2010
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Is a link with morality necessary for positive law to be valid law?

Fiche - 2 pages - Histoire du droit

Nowadays, a lot of examples show the will of imposing ethical values into life and law. One of the best illustrations is the introduction of the Convention of Human rights in 47 countries. There are many theories about the meaning of Law that can be dispatched in two groups named...

25 févr. 2002
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To what extent does the history of Community competition law mirror the history of the Community itself ?

Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen

To evaluate how community competition law reflects the integration process and the history of the Community in general, I shall demonstrate in a first part that community competition law was first strongly influenced by the development of the Union, then I shall explain why it is...

22 déc. 2008
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The economics of the no-fault divorce law

Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit de la famille

Marriage is a specific kind of contract "based upon a voluntary private agreement by a man and a woman to become husband and wife?. So in a sense, marriage is a contract like another one, the only difference being that the two contracting parties are strictly determined by the law as "only...

26 Mars 2013
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Choice of law by the arbitrator

Étude de cas - 3 pages - Droit autres branches

One of the main problems faced by the arbitrator when it comes to choice of law is the question of mandatory rules of law. A mandatory rule, as defined by Professor Mayer, refers to “an imperative provision of law which must be applied to an international relationship...

30 mai 2007
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International law: history and definition

Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international

“Truth is that international law is neither a myth on the one hand, nor a panacea on the other, but just one institution among others which we can use for building of a better international order” (J. Brierly, The law of nations, Oxford 1995). Law is a system of...

28 Mars 2013
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Propriété réelle et propriété personnelle en Common law

Dissertation - 12 pages - Propriété intellectuelle

« Le droit des biens (…) présente à presque tous les points de vue un contraste marqué avec le reste du droit. Plus que partout ailleurs, nous semblons bouger dans un monde d'idées pures dont est entièrement exclu tout ce qui est physique et matériel ». Lorsque Barry Nicholas eut à donner...

16 Nov. 2004
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Compare natural law and legal positivist accounts of legal validity. Which is more convincing?

Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit autres branches

What is law? What a controversial and complex question! It is the raison d‘être of the philosophy of law, over many years, which is aim to understand the generals conditions which would render any putative norm legally valid. Does legal validity lie in the norm's content or...

12 avril 2007
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Consider the extent to which international law is law, or 'really law' or 'law properly so-called' with reference to legal and other theorists

Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit international

Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl noticed that at first sight, ‘International' and ‘Law' sound contradictory: “how can one imagine a structured and developed legal system functioning in a political environment that is diffused, disparated, unregulated and conventionally...

08 août 2005
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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 universal conception of...

02 mai 2007
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International law and normative unity

Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international

In the Supreme Court of Canada's 1993 judgment in Hunt v. T & N Plc, Justice La Forest laid down the following goal to international law : “develop (…) co-ordination in the face of [the] diversity” of the international system. In other words, international law has to...

28 Oct. 2009
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"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...

27 Nov. 2007
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Les différences Civil Law / Common Law

Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit autres branches

Dans le domaine du droit comme ailleurs, anglais et francais opposent une vision et une conception différente. A notre Civil Law, héritée du droit romain et du droit canon, l'Angleterre répond depuis le 12e siècle par la Common Law. Le passé colonial britannique doublé de l'avis du...