Faut-il réformer le mode d'élection du président des États-Unis ?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
En démocratie, il n'y a pas d'autre légitimité politique que celle de l'élection. C'est l'élection par la majorité qui confère le pouvoir de représenter la totalité. C'est ce qu'on appelle le fait majoritaire. Mais tout dépend comment on parvient à cette majorité. De...
Les effets des modes de scrutin - publié le 19/05/2021
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit constitutionnel
En 2016 aux États-Unis, Hilary Clinton avait reçu un nombre de voix venant du peuple supérieur à celui de Donald Trump. Or, lors du scrutin, les Américains désignent les grands électeurs qui vont eux élire le président. De cette manière, Donald Trump ayant récolté le plus grand nombre de...
Le président des États-Unis et le Congrès
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les élections de mi-mandat qui auront lieu le 6 novembre prochain sont l'occasion de mettre en lumière les jeux de pouvoir politique des États-Unis et d'en présenter les grandes notions. Selon la Constitution de 1787, les États-Unis sont basés sur une organisation de type fédéral et sur...
De quelle manière s'organise l'élection du président des Etats-Unis ?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
On peut distinguer les modes de scrutin majoritaire des modes de scrutin à la proportionnelle. Aux États-Unis, le suffrage universel indirect est utilisé en pratique. Des représentants élus par les citoyens américains permettront avec la majorité des suffrages d'élire un président....
Anglais juridique - Les institutions britanniques
Cours - 40 pages - Droit autres branches
Ce document contient un cours d'anglais juridique destiné à des élèves de licence en droit.
Comment fonctionnent les élections présidentielles américaines ?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les élections présidentielles américaines sont les élections les plus suivies de la planète, car ces élections désignent le dirigeant de la première puissance mondiale. Cette bataille électorale oppose le parti républicain au parti démocrate. Les élections sont le choix, la désignation d'une...
Droit constitutionnel - Les modèles et régimes constitutionnels étrangers - Les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni
Cours - 10 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Les Etats-Unis : C'est la première constitution écrite du monde en 1787, c'est un régime politique de référence spécifique qui n'a aucun équivalent. Les Pères fondateurs ont bâti un régime d'équilibre des pouvoirs très original. On retrouve dans le fédéralisme sur le plan vertical...
"The O'Connor Court: America's most powerful Jurist" by Jeffrey Rosen
Fiche de lecture - 5 pages - Droit international
This is an article written by Jeffrey Rosen, who is a law professor. It's a slightly critics article in which he tries to show the advantages Justice O'Connor brought to the Court and it also strongly criticizes her decision-making process, her view of the Court in general, he...
The challenge of financial crisis to economic of development: impact and solutions- the case of Argentina
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Droit des affaires
The Argentine crisis means the great economic and social crisis that took place in Argentina between 1998 and 2002, whose consequences are felt even today. The Argentine authorities in early 1990 had chosen the technique of the currency board to stabilize an economy with inflation almost...
Conflict of laws and Crossborder litigation What is comity?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Droit international
Comity, first referred to as comitas gentium by Ulrich Huber in the 17th Century, literally translates to courtesy of people. It provides, in fact with an intellectual and legal justification, the recognition of a foreign law by a sovereign state without weakening the sovereignty of the...
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...
US Supreme Court rules evidence admissible despite police error
Commentaire de texte - 3 pages - Droit international
In this day and age, society is becoming increasingly reliant on computer technologies. The police are no exception to that rule. But what happens when the database gets it wrong? This is what an American journalist, Daniel Nasaw, discusses in this article, which was published in the British...
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...
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...
Implementation of European Law in a federal state: The Belgian case between coherence and autonomy
Fiche - 9 pages - Droit européen
‘Ultimately the impact of EU rules depends on the willingness and capacity of Member States authorities to ensure that they are transposed and enforced effectively and fully and on time' (Graver) . This statement from the European Commission in its White Paper on Governance deals...
Under what circumstances do you think states should intervene in humanitarian crises?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit international
Humanitarian intervention deals with two academic fields: political philosophy and international law. The question of intervention depends on the morality and on the legality of the intervention. Is humanitarian intervention a moral duty for different states? Is humanitarian intervention a...
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...
Rule of law in religious states - What does it mean when the State calls itself religious?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Droit autres branches
Essai en droit constitutionnel en anglais sur l'Etat de droit dans les Etats religieux.
"The State of exception" in France and the United Kingdom
Dissertation - 4 pages - Libertés publiques
The concept of state of exception belongs to the legal theory of Carl Schmitt. It is concerned by the state of emergencies based on the sovereign's ability to transcend the rule of law for or at least in the name of the public good. In the United Kingdom and France, the...
Williams Act and takeover defences in the United States
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Droit international
This statement will be discussed : “Without the process effects generated by the availability of takeover defense in the United States, the Williams Act would not be fit for purpose” The United States is among the countries the most favorable to the use of takeover...
The Supreme Court of the United States : a single institution in its kind
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit autres branches
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the judiciary. Established in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Court is at the same time,...
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...
Jury selection in the United States of America
Dissertation - 6 pages - Procédure pénale
In the United States, when a trial takes place, it begins with the jury selection, which is the process whereby, according to law and precedent, members of a particular trial jury are chosen. The right to have a jury dates from the Magna Carta and it is incorporated in the Sixth Amendment...
Should the state restrict the right of individual to hunt?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Libertés publiques
The claim is to prove that people who want to hunt need a restriction which should come from the state. Since the mists of time, human beings have been hunting. At the beginning, it was necessary to survive, to eat and to feed one's family. Nowadays, things have changed and to speak...
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...
The United States and the International Criminal Court: How valid are the US arguments for not joining the International Court ?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Droit international
A new jurisdiction in the history of international accountability of human rights is being set up, but with a limited action which makes it different than a world court. In this document we will analyze the justifications for the lack of commitment by the United States of America towards...
Le rôle du président de la République dans le système politique américain
Dissertation - 6 pages - Droit constitutionnel
Depuis un point de vue juridique, les États-Unis se distinguent et se caractérisent par leur "Checks and Balances System", lequel fait référence à un système d'interdépendance des pouvoirs qui possèdent des moyens mutuels de neutralisation, ce qui les oblige à collaborer incessamment au...
Labour unions in the United States
Fiche - 2 pages - Droit du travail
Trade unions in the United States were first organized in the early nineteenth century. The main purpose of a trade union is to collectively bargain with employers for wages, hours, and working conditions. We can define labour union like an association, combination, or organization of...
Commentaire d'arrêt : Mary Carpenter contre Secretary of State for the Home Department, C-60/00
Commentaire d'arrêt - 11 pages - Droit européen
La libre prestation de service constitue une des quatre libertés garanties par le Traité instituant la Communauté Européenne (TCE). Considérée dans les articles 49 et suivants, elle consiste à fournir des services moyennant rémunération. Comme les autres libertés, elle est protégée par la Cour...
Les « Failed States »
Fiche - 3 pages - Droit international
La notion de « failed state », traduite en français par « Etat défaillant », « Etat déliquescent » ou encore « Etat en échec » est une question centrale du droit international. L'Etat défaillant serait l'Etat qui faillit dans l'accomplissement de l'une ou de plusieurs des trois critères...
