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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
L'accusation : comparez les systèmes de Common Law avec le système français
Dissertation - 7 pages - Procédure pénale
Montesquieu, dans son ouvrage la Défense de l'esprit des lois, a écrit « l'équité naturelle demande que le degré de preuve soit proportionné à la grandeur de l'accusation ». La citation peut faire référence à la nécessité d'apporter une preuve quasi irréfragable lorsque l'accusation est de nature...
Sécurité juridique et évolutivité en Common Law
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La prestigieuse université d'Oxford accueille des étudiants anglais et étrangers ; ainsi que des professeurs qui logent dans son enceinte même, et sont soumis à un règlement intérieur. Ce règlement mentionnait notamment que la possession d'animaux de compagnie était strictement encadrée, les...
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...
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...
"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...
Common law et civil law
Cours - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
- Les Etats de common law se distinguent par des Constitutions qui sont en fait à l'origine des lois votées par le Parlement de Westminster. Grande influence de l'agencement institutionnel né en Angleterre. - Pas de Constitution écrite au RU, cependant une série de grands textes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
L'opposition entre la culture romaniste et la culture Common Law
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit international
Pour régler les conflits et ordonner les sociétés, les Etats mettent en place des systèmes juridiques, c'est-à-dire des structures et des modes de fonctionnement des instances reliées à l'application des règles de droit ainsi que les services qui en découlent. Différents systèmes juridiques...
General principles of the Canadian constitutional law
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
As a former member of the British Empire, Canada has been widely influenced by certain aspects of the English law. The Canadian parliamentary system finds its origins in the British institutions that were settled after the conquest of 1760 and more particularly with the 1791 constitutional...
International human rights law
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The right to life has been interpreted as both permitting exceptions and imposing obligations with regard to the death penalty. Discuss. Through centuries, religions and philosophies have strongly condemned the act of killing human life. The extend of states violence during the Second World War...
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...
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...
Introduction to the Challenges of European and French Law in Legal Informatics
Dissertation - 15 pages - Droit européen
The " new technologies " which appeared thirty years ago and are characterized by a considerable development are subject to fundamental legal questions. The definition of new technologies remains vague and includes the information and communication technologies. The information and communication...
Difficulties of application of international law - Example of the Cambodia genocide
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit international
This paper will show to the reader the difficulties which can appear in practice concerning the international criminal law. Indeed, several problems can occur. First of all, one has to know what the aim of the international criminal law is and we have to define what is the...
There is no sense in maintaining different rules for tracing at law and in equity. One set of tracing rules is enough
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit des affaires
In the administration of a trust, the trustee is the one that assumes a range of duties and responsibilities. When a breach of trust occurs, the trustee might be liable for both acts of omission and commission. There are several ways a beneficiary can pursue remedies for a breach of duty on the...
