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...
Nature and sources of international business law?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit international
What are your views on the nature and sources of international business law? The idea of international business law is fairly easy to understand: It is the standardization of fundamental business practices worldwide. Its purpose is to increase global interdependence. International...
Le système de Common Law
Fiche - 11 pages - Histoire du droit
Le parlement anglais apparaît dès le 13e siècle, la systémisation des jurys date du 12e siècle. La procédure par action, qui veut que pour agir en justice, il faille une action prévue en amont (procédure du droit anglais, sur lequel le droit anglais va se bâtir). Tout ça au moyen-âge !! C'est à...
International business law: MPFree example
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Droit international
Company designs and sells a newly-invented MP3 player, the MPFree, that plays any music it can receive wirelessly from the Internet and that works with wireless earphones. As vice-president of this 75-person company located in the fictional country of Euphoria, we have to advise Eugene, one of...
Les systèmes juridiques comparés : le Common law et la famille romano-germanique
Cours - 69 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Il y a dans le monde, une très grande diversité de systèmes juridiques. Il y a plus de systèmes juridiques que d'États dans la mesure où plusieurs États ont plusieurs systèmes juridiques. Exemple : les EU d'Amérique, il existe la peine de mort et dans d'autres non. Chaque État fédéré...
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...
Common Law : quelles procédures appliquer à un précédent ?
Fiche - 1 pages - Droit autres branches
Reversal - Est le renversement de la décision en appel. - Le reversal n'atteint pas seulement efficacité erga omnes de la décision, mais aussi son efficacité inter partes. - La décision renversée perd un peu de son efficacité entre les parties. - Reversal of the different point : , « di fatto »,...
Has the passing of the Human Rights Act forced English Courts confronted the gap in the law protecting privacy?
Mémoire - 7 pages - Droit international
Essay de fin d'année au sein d'une université anglaise. Etudie l'impact de l'entrée en vigueur du Human Rights Act sur la protection de la vie privée en droit anglais. Rédigé en anglais et sans plan matérialisé. Obtenu la note de 70 %.
International business law Canada
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Droit international
In this document we are going to look at the CANADA. Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system, defining itself as a bilingual and multicultural nation, the French and English are of equal status, the official languages. Industrialized and technologically advanced nation,...
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 negotiations are the...
L'Angleterre des Plantagenets et barons, common law et magna carta
Cours - 5 pages - Histoire du droit
Dans les compilations de Justinien, utilisées par les juristes de Bologne, on dit que le bon gouvernement est décoré d'armes, et armé de lois. Les juristes médiévaux ont trouvé ici la substance même de la source de l'Etat. Le roi au Moyen Age se voulait seigneur de la guerre, et fontaine de...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The european integration process and the institutionalisation of integration
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit européen
This first lecture deals with the different approaches that can be followed in order to study the European integration. We focus our attention on three different way of studying: 'disciplinary' approach, 'theoretical' approach and finally 'political' approach. The...
The European Court of Justice and the rule of Precedent
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit européen
The rule of precedent is the legal principle under which judges have to follow the judgments established previously by upper courts. The Latin translation of "stare decisis" gives an unequivocal definition of the concept as it means "to stand by that which is decided". Precedent underpins...
Critically evaluate the impact upon EC jurisprudence and legislation of the judgement of the European Court of Justice in REWE Zentral AG Bundesmonopolverwaltung fur Branntwein "Cassis de Dijon"
Dissertation - 7 pages - Droit européen
Article 28 (ex-30) of the EC Treaty is one of the major principles governing the achievement in establishing the common market. It lays out a strong principle that imposes quantitative restrictions on imports and that all measures having equivalent effect will be prohibited between...
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...
Competition law
Dissertation - 12 pages - Droit autres branches
Competition law has different forms of laws according to the causes of concern it has in various countries. The first aspect of its function is to protect individuals, consumers, against the power of monopolies or different corporations, and against agreements on various levels of...
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...
?The European Union Court of Justice is more relevant for the advance of the EU political unity than the Commission and the Parliament' - Discuss
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The European Union's political role has been a big issue among the main theoriticians of the European Union. The place of the European Parliament and the Commission in the process toward political unity is obvious. The Commission, as the institution which has the power...
Critically assess the legal basis and context of the European arrest warrant
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit européen
In the olden days, Europe was a place where there were fewer barriers economically, politically and socially. Everything moved freely: stocks, goods, people and also criminals. To strike a balance between freedom and security, some measures had to be taken. The framework decision defines...
The Lisbon Treaty: European Federation?
Dissertation - 4 pages - Droit européen
The word 'federal' isn't mentioned in any European treaty. The European authorities have decided to avoid referring to this system of governance to talk about the European project. However, the concept of a European federation hides beneath all...
Family Law: Comparison France Vs. China
Dissertation - 20 pages - Droit de la famille
During the last century, the Chinese government decided to abolish the old family system and establish a new family idea: the socialist family system (the Marriage Code of 1950). This marked a turning point in Chinese common law and the beginning of a new family way of thinking. With this...
