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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
The situation of the European Union legal system with regard to international agreements
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit européen
"The EU Member States may be divided into those whose legal order is monist and those whose legal order is dualist." In monist States, once an international agreement has been agreed to, its entering into force in the international legal order entails its entering into force in the national legal...
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 Court of Justice, September 17, 2007 - Abuse of dominant positions
Commentaire d'arrêt - 6 pages - Droit de la concurrence
On September 17, 2007, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling concerning the litigation between Microsoft and The European Commission for anticompetitive behavior. It all started on December 10, 1998, when Sun Microsystems lodged a complaint with The European...
The evolution of European judicial cooperation in criminal matters since the Maastricht Treaty
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit européen
This project intends to examine the objectives of judicial cooperation throughout the European Union (hereinafter EU) and the area of freedom, security and justice to ensure a high level of security by mutual recognition of judgment concerning criminal matters. Attention will...
The role of the ECJ's (European Court of Justice) : the consumer who is reasonably well-informed and reasonably observant and circumspect
Dissertation - 14 pages - Droit européen
The legal term of the “average consumer” was created by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to protect the average consumer against unfair commercial practises. After the Second War World, many states were indeed inspired by Keynes's theory that aimed at division of resources...
The role (present and future) of the European Court of Justice in the protection of asylum-seekers in the European Union
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit international
The European Court of Justice has laid down a legal Act pertaining to the judicial protection towards asylum seekers. However, this act is not completely flawless. Even if all the Member States ratify the new constitution and it be made effective thereafter, the future of the asylum...
Constitutional law applicable in the Anglo-Saxon - parliamentary sovereignty
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit constitutionnel
One of the key characteristics of British Constitution is the dominance of the Parliament. The Parliament is the main legislative body in British Constitution. It is bicameral; and is composed of two chambers, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The main functions of the Parliament are...
Foster v. British Gas plc: A European mirror of the French Public Service?
Commentaire d'arrêt - 4 pages - Droit européen
Most of the developed states are aware of what public service is through facts. But only a few of them have come up with a legal definition of what it really is. In French Administrative law, the notion of public service has never been and will never be easily displayed. Major academics...
The legal system of common law in Anglo-Saxon
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit international
A contract is the most obvious manifestation of law in everyday life. In a legal point of view, not all agreements are seen as enforceable contracts. Indeed, each legal system introduced some rules in order to determine which agreement is enforceable; this corpus of rules is called "the...
The Implementation of the Third Pillar of the European Union in Hungary
Dissertation - 13 pages - Droit européen
Hungary acceded to the European Union on the 1st May 2004, thus it is one of the newer member states of the organization. In this paper we are going to introduce the Hungarian implementation of five (former) third pillar issues. We will examine the legal background of these areas of...
