The differences between English case law and the French concept of « jurisprudence »
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit autres branches
To begin, we can notice two concepts concerning the value granted to the decisions delivered by the jurisdictions of a state: indeed, states which use Common law (like the Great Britain or the United States of America), the concept of case law is preferred whereas in states...
Evaluate the developing case law of the Court of Justice with respect to its application of the principle of State liability to situations in which a Member state has failed to fulfil its obligations concerning the transposition of a Directive into nation
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
In the first part, I shall debate that the immediate consequence of the directives and article 228 were the first steps taken by the court with respect to the application of a state liability. In the second part, I shall explain the context and consequences of the application of the state...
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...
International Business Law : three cases
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit des affaires
This paper talks about a buyer, located in Miami, who ordered 2,500 cell-phones from company for a total amount of $150,000 (including the shipping charge). But there were several problems with this order: the order was delayed and the phones were damaged by moisture during shipping. One of the...
International business laws, fictive case
Étude de cas - 22 pages - Droit des affaires
In the report, we should keep in mind the future international development of PI and its necessary entry in stock exchange. Considering the data, we could say that PI has to penetrate the international market by considering different laws and juridictions. Even if the KU is a corrupted...
U.S. law - Examples and cases of violations of Article 82 (abuse of dominant position)
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit européen
Article 82 of the consolidated version of the 1997 EC Treaty, prohibits the abuse of dominance by one or more companies located in the EU or in a substantial part of it. In order to be considered, this abuse must affect trade between the member states. Article 82 is currently being reviewed by...
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...
International business law: the "Peach International Inc" case
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Droit international
The Peach International Company is a start-up specialized in the "high tech communications" domain. The firm deals with the ?higher level of technology' and specializes in the domain of "standard mobiles". The company provides phones that contain all the advantages of an actual mobile, such...
Implementation of European Law in a federal state: The Belgian case between coherence and autonomy
Fiche - 9 pages - Droit européen
‘Ultimately the impact of EU rules depends on the willingness and capacity of Member States authorities to ensure that they are transposed and enforced effectively and fully and on time' (Graver) . This statement from the European Commission in its White Paper on Governance deals with the...
Common Law
TD - 2 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Dans la common law, le mode raisonnement est un raisonnement par analogie. Ce raisonnement permet aux juges d'établir des ressemblances ou des similitudes entre deux affaires. Dans un tel raisonnement, on établit la ressemblance entre une affaire posée et une affaire déjà tranchée.
La distinction entre le système romano-germanique et le système de Common Law a-t-elle encore un sens ?
Dissertation - 1 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Un système juridique se définit comme le mode de fonctionnement juridique d'un territoire, avec sa forme, sa codification propre. Le système romano-germanique se distingue par l'importance du droit écrit. En revanche, les systèmes de Common Law insistent sur l'importance...
International competition law: extraterritoriality matters, conflicts of decisions
Cours - 6 pages - Droit international
One criterion in Europe: effect doctrine. Competition rules exist on the European scale, but we don't have a worldwide competition law. In the past, the WTO tried to set up a worldwide code with antitrust rules: the Munich Group. It was hard to reach an agreement between countries,...
An Introduction to the study of the law of the constitution - Albert Venn Dicey (1885)
Commentaire de texte - 2 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le texte que nous allons étudier est "An Introduction to the study of the law of the constitution" de Albert Venn Dicey. Albert Venn Dicey est un juriste britannique, théoricien des lois constitutionnelles. Dicey est un diplômé du Balliol College d'Oxford et a été professeur à...
Global litigation and conflict of laws
Cours - 5 pages - Droit international
Whether A can have the Belgian court cease the proceedings pending before it on the basis that parallel proceedings are pending in France depends on whether the case at hand fulfills the criteria of parallel proceedings, which is that the proceedings must involve “the same cause of...
Etude de cas portant sur le droit anglo-saxon
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Droit international
Cette étude de cas, portant sur le droit anglo-saxon, traite des aspects juridiques et commerciaux en droit anglo-saxon, de la stratégie d'investissement direct au Royaume-Uni, du schéma des juridictions au Royaume-Uni, des impacts juridiques et commerciaux à l'éventualité d'un Bréxit...
Summarized family law
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit autres branches
Family matters are dealt with in the Family Division of the High Court, and by district judges in County Courts. These magistrates undergo special training, according to Family Proceedings rules 2010. Also, recently the Government has supported and developed for mediation schemes which offer an...
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...
Cas pratique de droit européen de la concurrence - Les ententes
Cas Pratique - 10 pages - Droit européen
En l'espèce, le groupe Intel est un fabricant de produits électroniques pour le grand public qui détient une part supérieure à 20% sur le marché français et réalise dans l'ensemble de l'UE un chiffre d'affaires annuel de 40M€. Le groupe est formé par une société mère de droit...
Étude de cas en Droit comparé (Droit international des affaires, droit de l'Union européenne)
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Droit des affaires
Pour faire face à une concurrence internationale croissante et parvenir à gagner des parts de marchés à l'étranger, de nombreuses entreprises françaises souhaiteraient avoir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes de droit dans le monde. En votre qualité de juriste, vous expliquerez en quoi...
« The effective application of European Union law has been ensured through the development of two key concepts by the European Court of Justice : firstly the supremacy of Community rules and secondly the mechanism of direct effect. » Discuss
Dissertation - 8 pages - Droit européen
According to Steiner, Woods & Twigg-Flesner, the ECJ, by interpreting the Treaties, gave direct effect and supremacy a common objective 'in the ECJ's approach: the need to ensure the effectiveness of Community law. [...] The Community would not survive if States were free to act...
Le 'Tort of Negligence' dans les pays de Common Law
TD - 5 pages - Droit international
La responsabilité délictuelle encadre les cas de figure dans lesquels une personne peut se voir obligée de réparer un dommage. Cette responsabilité délictuelle n'est pas conçue de la même façon dans tous les systèmes juridiques. Par exemple, alors qu'en droit français la notion de faute...
Critically assess the evolution of the law of copyright in the relation to film in the UK.
Dissertation - 6 pages - Propriété intellectuelle
The copyright « is a set of exclusive rights granted by government for a limited time to regulate the use of a particular form, way or manner in which an idea or information is expressed. Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative or artistic forms or "works" and subject matter other than...
Remèdes en cas de breach of trust (dans un trust privé exprès)
Cours - 2 pages - Droit civil
C'est une thématique qui se rattache à un trust privé exprès. Il y a un réel trustee qui a des obligations qui résultent de l'instrument du trust. Il est tenu d'exécuter conformément les devoirs qui résultent de l'instrument du trust et de la loi. Il y a notamment le devoir de diligence, de...
Les contrats internationaux d'achat d'équipement de haute technologie - Etude de cas avec contrat en Anglais
TD - 32 pages - Droit des affaires
En 2008 GI a signé un contrat de vente avec le Gouvernement Singapourien pour la fourniture de 10 véhicules blindés destinés à l'armée. Ces véhicules seront notamment équipés de radars développés et fabriqués par l'équipementier THOMY. En tant que Juriste, vous êtes mandaté par GI pour...
International Business Law : Doing Business in Australia
Mémoire - 7 pages - Droit international
This file has for main goal to analyze risk factors of Australia. We have conducted a study of legal, political, cultural and financial risks. Australia is the 15th largest economy in the world . Australia's GDP is one of the highest of all countries and services take a major part in it with...
Méthodologie du cas pratique en droit international privé
Cas Pratique - 13 pages - Droit international
Dès lors que le litige présente un ou plusieurs éléments d'extranéité, un problème surgit: le juge ne peut appliquer cumulativement à la même question de droit deux règles qui ne la résolvent peut-être pas de la même façon. Il y a conflit de lois et le juge doit choisir entre elles. Définition du...
conflict of laws in IB
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit international
, it is important while doing business to set things clearly and that is why the contract need to be very clear and provide legal information to make sure that in any case of possible dispute the rules are clear. In any case of conflict, I truly believe, that mediation and...
CASE C-309/99 Wouters
Commentaire d'arrêt - 3 pages - Droit de la concurrence
This case involves a dispute between on the one hand claimants Mr. Wouters, Mr Savelbergh, Arthur Andersen & Co., Arthur Andersen & Co. Belastingadviseurs and Price Waterhouse Belastingadviseurs BV and the Bar of the Netherlands on the other hand. Claimants called for the annulment of the...
Common law, statute law et equity - structure et articulation des diverses sources du droit américain
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit international
Le système juridique américain semble à première vue quelque peu curieux pour une personne issue de la tradition civiliste du droit. Il se dit être un système de common law, c'est-à-dire où le droit est celui fait par les juges (plus précisément l'on parle de case law)....
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...
