The concept of electronic contracting under English common Law
Dissertation - 16 pages - Droit des affaires
The internet and technology has provided a global marketplace and are being increasingly used for communications between businesses and by business to consumers. As e-commerce continues to grow at an increasing rate, a large number of transactions are being completed on time, particularly as...
Free movement of people among administrations of the Member States
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit européen
Free movement of people (workers) in the European Union (EU) Member States is one of the Four Freedoms and was developed from the concept of EU citizenship introduced by the Maastricht Treaty (1992). In fact, the European Coal and Steel Community (1951) established a right for free...
CAVEJ L1 Anglais juridique
Cours - 222 pages - Droit autres branches
Wales remained a separate entity from England until the 16th century. Wales is composed of a number of principalities (principautés) with distinct characteristics. Those differences resulted in various conflicts until the middle Ages. Fortunately, in 1536, the Act of Union integrated together...
Privacy and surveillance society in the UK
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit international
"We live in a surveillance society ". This is the opening sentence of the Report on the Surveillance Society for the Information Commissioner published in September 2006. It states that Everyday life in the U.K. is monitored through the use of credit card, mobile phone, travel cards, loyalty card...
Border Regulation, Freedom of Movement and Citizenship in the Third Pillar of the EU: Conflicting legal agendas.
Dissertation - 9 pages - Droit européen
Within the United Kingdom (UK) there has been a long proud tradition of strong regulatory and independent oversight with respect to its national border security and integrity. The UK is a confederation of regional states some of which have semi-autonomous devolved legislatures, yet it...
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...
Corporate liability
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit des affaires
Designing corporations liable for criminal offences gives rise to encountering a number of difficulties and pitfalls. Discuss this statement, in general terms with reference to corporate criminal liability taking into account a particular offence of manslaughter and any proposals for reforming...
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...
Conseil d'État, Section, 13 mars 2020, société Hasbro European trading - Délai de recours contentieux pour contester les instructions fiscales publiées au BOFiP - Introduction et plan
Commentaire d'arrêt - 2 pages - Droit fiscal
Dans une décision Société Hasbro European Trading datant du 13 mars 2020 (n° 435634), le Conseil d'État réuni en section a procédé à un revirement jurisprudentiel permettant aux justiciables d'exercer un recours pour excès de pouvoir contre l'Administration fiscale en raison...
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.
The use of information in France
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit autres branches
In France, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés or CNIL is an independent administrative authority whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data. We are going to present some laws...
Influence of media and legal institutions on one another
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
This essay aims at showing the necessary but dangerous interactivity existing between media and legal institutions: each of them need to be independent but in the same time they both need each other. The following pages will answer the subsequent problem: can legal institutions resist the media...
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...
Quels enjeux juridiques pour le transfert d'une base de données vers un autre pays ?
Mémoire - 33 pages - Droit international
Si la question de la protection des données est aujourd'hui plutôt satisfaisante en Europe, il n'en est pas de même dans l'ensemble des pays du monde, très peu de pays se sont intéressés à cette question. Si le nombre de pays possédant une protection équivalente à l'Union Européenne est très...
Comment le rôle du juge de Common Law s'est-il distingué de celui du juge civiliste ?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit civil
Le droit civil est un système juridique fondamentalement inspiré du droit romain. La principale source de droit est la loi, découlant du pouvoir législatif ou du pouvoir exécutif, selon l'époque et les champs de compétences. Le pouvoir judiciaire n'est en principe que susceptible...
The protection of consumers on Internet
Dissertation - 15 pages - Droit autres branches
The recent boom of the internet in Europe and the emergence of a new kind of commerce (e-commerce) led to a widening of the commercial offers that can be proposed to the consumers. Simultaneous with such an expansion in internet offering come the demand for online security regarding the...
Some questions on the Unidroit principles
Cours - 4 pages - Droit international
The legal problem in the first dispute concerns excuses for non-performance of a contract. Hence, what is at stake here is, in the first instance, whether a non-performance may be excused in the given circumstances. More specifically, though, the problem is about force majeure and hardship, as...
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...
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...
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 action...
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...
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...
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...
The principle of direct effect.
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen
The principle of direct effect is fundamental in community law. It means that Community law can directly create or confer rights or obligations towards individuals, who could, in particular conditions, evoke directly effective community law before their national...
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...
Critically assess the harmonisation of Trade Mark in European Union.
Dissertation - 4 pages - Propriété intellectuelle
Since it has been created in 1993,the European Union (former European Community created in 1957), which is composed of twenty five members, has always try to find the best ways to coordinate the laws which govern the whole of each member states; with a view to allowing a best...
How the "author's rights" are treated domestically under the law of France and how "copyright" is treated domestically under the law of United State of America?
Étude de cas - 15 pages - Droit international
The intellectual property refers both for brands analysis, commercial secrets, from patents to copyrights. It was at the beginning used by jurists only, it has been the subject of increased attention by the economists since the 1980s, and gradually spread as the certainty that produce ideas had...
Critically appraise the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the UK.
Dissertation - 10 pages - Droit européen
Very soon, the Parliament has elaborated texts in order to protect rights of individuals and to fight against the discretionary and excessive powers of the Monarchy. So, certain fundamental texts as the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus were adopted. It was the beginning of a...
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...
The European Union, a world economic power?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit européen
The European Union originated with the The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1950, after the Second World War. This one aimed at straightening and at helping economically and financially Europe very weakened at this moment. It is a six-nation international organization...