Diferencias culturales y derechos humanos
Cours - 36 pages - Droit international
La declaración de derechos humanos solo menciona derechos y no sus correspondientes obligaciones. El Estado, en cambio, solo posee obligaciones y es considerado como un Estado de no-derecho. Las denominaciones dentro de esta declaración pueden dividirse en individuales y colectivas. Los...
Droit constitutionnel et administratif comparé
Cours - 26 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Le droit comparé serait d'abord deux ou plusieurs pays, mais pas nécessairement que l'on rapproche/compare pour en tirer les similitudes et les différences débouchant le cas échéant sur les avantages ou les inconvénients ou sur l'existence d'un droit commun et de principes communs...
Droit comparé : les principaux systèmes juridiques, leurs interactions et convergences
Cours - 44 pages - Droit autres branches
Dès qu'il y a société, il y a du droit. Chaque société a son propre droit, et donc il est possible de le comparer avec le nôtre ou comparer les systèmes normatifs entre eux. La comparaison peut s'effectuer à différents niveaux : - Entre droits semblables, mais qui se différencient sur...
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...
Human rights - Beyond the universalistic / relativistic paradigm: how to promote a common and cultural-sensitive approach ofmoral principles
Dissertation - 14 pages - Libertés publiques
This article underlines the limitations of the relativistic/universalistic paradigm in regard to the human rights qualification. It defends a third path which consists in a genuine intercultural dialogue, taking into account local specificities in order to promote common moral principles. The...
The wearing of burqa in France
Dissertation - 8 pages - Libertés publiques
First, it is important to precise the definition of burqa, the term 'niqab' would rather be used instead since it is the appropriate designation of the garment used in France by the Muslim community. The situation popped up in 1994 in France when some girls wore the veil to school. The...
International Business Law in Ecuador
Thèse - 10 pages - Droit international
In this document, we shall present an overview of Ecuador and its laws along with recommendations on entering the Ecuadorian market. As an exporter of main products, Ecuador is an interesting target for foreign investors and that could permit the development of the country. For several years,...
Commentaire d'arrêt de la 3ème Chambre civile de la Cour de cassation du 5 mai 1981 relatif à la qualification d'un bien d'immeuble par destination
Commentaire d'arrêt - 6 pages - Droit civil
La qualification d'immeuble par destination d'un bien, par application de l'article 524 du Code civil, peut être sujette à interprétations et à des décisions douloureuses. C'est ainsi que le juge peut être amené à trancher entre deux argumentations solides, ce que nous démontre un...
Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State, Jurgen Habermas
Commentaire de texte - 3 pages - Libertés publiques
Jurgen Habermas, a German philosopher and sociologist born in 1929, has propounded theory inscribed in the tradition of the significant theory and American pragmatism. He has written several pieces about communication, social identity, Europe and multiculturalism in the post-national...
La Rupture Juridique : Cas du Kémalisme et la fin du Califat Islamique
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
La doctrine culturaliste était loin d'exclure la modernité : ainsi chez les culturalistes hindous, ainsi chez les culturalistes japonais, ainsi chez le juriste musulman Jamel Eddine El Afghani. Dans tous ces mouvements cependant le point important, c'est que la...
Assessing the impact of parental marital status in relation to Irish child law: should Constitution be amended?
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Droit des affaires
“It cannot be contested that a person born outside marriage, is a human person, equal to one born within marriage” . In this statement, Justice Walsh points out the differential treatment between marital and non-marital children which is derived from the Irish Constitution. By letting...
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 Human...
Is the European integration a threat to the UK's sovereignty or rather to the UK's exceptional position?
Thèse - 2 pages - Droit européen
After World War II, Winston Churchill called for an European integration, with cooperation between France and Germany. For Britain, there was no place in this structure, as Britain was not only a country but a world power like the USA and the USSR at that time. Sixty years later, the British...
Pourquoi nous sommes partisans du suffrage féminin ? Germaine Chapuis
Commentaire de texte - 4 pages - Histoire du droit
Après avoir participé à l'effort de guerre entre 1914 et 1918, certaines femmes poursuivent leur combat entamé à la fin du XIXe siècle notamment pour obtenir le droit de vote des femmes alors même que celui-ci s'étend dans le monde occidental, comme en Angleterre et en Allemagne en 1918 ou aux...
Human Rights and Universality
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit international
We'll see that a mediate position can be found between what Donnelly has identified as radical cultural relativism (a) and radical universalism (b). Thus, it seems that a cross-cultural consensus can be found on the universality of some basic rights contained in the UDHR, whereas some other...
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 described as...
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...
Crime and euthanasia
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit pénal
According to the dictionary, a crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. We can also consider that a crime is a deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms and cultural standards that prescribe...
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...
Cours de criminologie - publié le 10/08/2007
Cours - 135 pages - Droit autres branches
Cours complet et bien structuré sur la criminologie. Mais qu'est-ce que la « criminologie » ?
The politics of international Human Rights Law
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
The point of this essay is the observation of Human rights concerning some currents issues of International relations and social and political disorder; for example, in Tibet where it has been thought that the enforcement of some standards of Human rights would protect the Tibetans from the...
Le Droit rural
Cours - 72 pages - Droit autres branches
Les différents contrats sont réunis dans le code rural sous le nom de baux ruraux. Dans le livre 4 : on retrouve le bail à ferme, le bail à métayage, le bail emphytéotique, et la location de jardins familiaux. En ce qui concerne le fermage et le métayage c'est le titre 1er qui lui est...
Crimes et culture
Dissertation - 28 pages - Droit pénal
« Les populations exogènes sont-elles criminogènes ? ». Les vagues successives d'immigration ont souvent fait l'objet de profondes inquiétudes de la part de la population française. De nombreux débats se sont ainsi créés autour de ces phénomènes au cours des dernières décennies. Le...
International human rights law - publié le 18/12/2005
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
Today, various international instruments allow for the protection and respect of human rights. Thus, the International Bill of Rights is the basis composed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the two subsequent International Covenants of 1966. The United Nations, which is...
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...
Les textes officiels, contraintes et ressources
Cours - 35 pages - Droit administratif
Cours de didactique traitant plusieurs sujets : les textes officiels, contraintes ou ressources, les programmes en EPS, l'évaluation et certification en EPS. Le contexte de la didactique en EPS, les didactiques de l'EPS, le sous-système enseignant, l'utilisation des concepts en EPS......
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...
Is the United Nations Genocide Convention an Effective Instrument ?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit international
The term genocide comes from the Greek word genos which means race or tribe and the Latin word cide which means killing. The word genocide only appeared in the indictment for the Nuremberg trail, and neither in its Charter nor its judgment. For this trial, the crime of genocide has actually been...
To what extent judicial intuitionism affects the judge's legal reasoning in Common Law?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
The recent nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama sparked once again the political debate on the objectivity of the appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Republicans, even though pretending to be unbiased, started to fear that this Obamanian judge would undermine President...
La discrimination positive en droit comparé - exemples de la France et des États-Unis
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit constitutionnel
La polémique déclenchée à l'occasion de la nomination en 2004 d'un préfet « issu de l'immigration » par le ministère de l'Intérieur, promotion au mérite ou « coup de pouce » tenant compte de l'origine religieuse, souligne la difficulté d'envisager dans notre pays la question de l'égalité, sous...
