"The concept of the Rule of Law as defined by Dicey still remains valid : it provides a measure against which we can judge the attitudes and actions of Parliament, Government and the courts"
Essay - 5 pages - European law
The rule of law is often expounded as a pillar of the English Constitution. It was described by Lord Bingham as "the second great rock on which [Dicey?s] constitutional edifice was founded". It was referred to as a statute for the first time, in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, as an...
The economics of the no-fault divorce law
Essay - 5 pages - Other law subjects
Marriage is a specific kind of contract "based upon a voluntary private agreement by a man and a woman to become husband and wife?. So in a sense, marriage is a contract like another one, the only difference being that the two contracting parties are strictly determined by the law as "only...
European harmonization in the Contract Law Area
Essay - 6 pages - European union
The last decade witnessed the European Union taking tentative steps towards the likely abolition of each member state contract law, and its substitution with a single European Contract Law Code. Indeed, the European Union usually solves inconsistencies in contract law by...
What are the main differences between the civil and the common law systems ?
Essay - 5 pages - European law
The majority of legal authors divide the legal systems of the world into two mains groups : the common law on one hand, and the civil law on the other hand . The most interesting is that when you try to find definitions for those words, you often find the basic definition, and then,...
Law, morality and religion
Thesis - 8 pages - Philosophy
On June 26, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law prohibiting the practice of sodomy "with a person of the same sex" unconstitutional, in the State of Texas. This called into question the laws that ban hanging in 13 U.S. states and homosexual practices, even in a private...
International business law, allied tows, inc. in Utopia
Essay - 15 pages - Business law
As a potential multinational firm, Allied Toys wants to implement a business development strategy in a predetermined country, in order to see if this model could be applicable as a 'worldwide development strategy'. The fact is that the Republic of Utopia is a country where setting up a...
Law and violence in Jewish and Islamic perspectives
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
When the above is read at a glance, one would think Jewish Law states that a son who does not obey his parents shall be put to death. However, we do not see this implemented in society today - nor are there notable instances of this occurring in history. Has it been ignored? Does this...
Primacy / Supremacy of European Community Law against Sovereignty of the Member States
Essay - 25 pages - European law
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 Community (EC)....
International Law and Organization: Weighing the Democracy Deficit
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The history of the relationship between the United States and international law and organization has always been a love-hate one. While historically the U.S. has unquestionably been one of the strongest proponents of the development of international organizations such as the United Nations...
Analysis of cases under the US constitution in relation to the laws laid by United Nations
Thesis - 8 pages - International law
Wanta B. Heard, the victim, filed a notification request form after indictment of the defendant for the crime of rape. The State and defendant worked out a plea agreement to plead guilty to second-degree assault with a one-year sentence. Heard requested to speak with the court regarding the plea....
Landlord and tenant law problem
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
Firstly, with regard to the terms of the original tenant's lease, the lease was for a term of ten years granted in 2001 and includes numerous leasehold covenants. In addition to the express leasehold covenants, the law will imply covenants into a lease , which include the following: 1)...
Law of international human rights and detainees at Guantanamo Bay naval base
Thesis - 5 pages - International law
Since the terror attacks of September 11 and the official war on terror has commenced, questions have been raised as to how the United States should engage itself in regard to both its military operations and treatment of enemy combatants. Debate over the United States applying rules of war,...
Roman, provincial and Islamic law by Patricia Crone
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The basic thesis of Patricia Crone's Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law is that the sharia is, at least in part, derived from what the author calls “Roman provincial law”, and not from pre-Islamic Arabian cultures, other Near-East cultures (Egyptians, Akkadians and Jews...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act : A real improvement or just another new law?
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
At the end of the year 2001, and during the year 2002, many financial scandals broke out and shook the confidence that had been placed in our global economy and the reliability of companies listed on the Stock Exchange such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Qwest, and Xerox. These scandals are not just...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) law and the environment
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In 1979 the Brandt Commission recommended that an international trade organization incorporating both GATT and UNCTAD was the objective towards which the international community should work. This dream came true in January 1995 when the World Trade Organization (WTO) became the successor to GATT,...
Study on Moroccan Labour law, Labour Resources and Costs
Case study - 19 pages - Economy general
Morocco has created a favorable environment for investors as the result of an extensive program designed to attract business to the country. Multinational corporations that have invested in Morocco benefited from those competitive advantages on several fronts. This study gives detailed...
Sir Isaac Newton: Life, discoveries and the laws of motion
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Sir Isaac Newton laid the foundation of modern physics in the late seventeenth century. He described in mathematical terms, the fall and the movement of the body and defined the three fundamental laws of universal gravity. He also developed the calculus, pioneered important work in optics,...
Breach of duty of care/ negligence in tort law: Mr J Madisson in Caparo v Dickman
Law case - 4 pages - Civil law
The tort of negligence is one of the most important fields of tort law in modernized law. When a claimant suffers from an act or an omission on behalf of a third party, innumerable ways and means are proposed to impose liability on the defendant. It is essential and necessary for...
The speed of innovation and the impact of Moore's law
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, formulated a law in 1965 stating that the speed and power of computers doubles every 18 months at constant cost (it is actually the story of transistor density on the silicon wafer). To offer a simple example: if I buy a computer today for 1000 Euros, it...
An Analysis of Okun's Law
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
Introduction: This essay is split into three sections. In section 1, Okun's law will be examined, by looking at both of its forms. In section 2, the Okun's law coefficient will be analysed with particular reference to the factors which can affect the coefficient. In section 3,...
Three Case Studies of Business Law
Essay - 7 pages - Business law
In the first situation, we can identify three main issues. First of all, the order arrived a few days late. Then the Buyer asserts that the MP3 Players were damaged by moisture by the ship's hull. These two problems are linked to each other: the Buyers wants us to cut the sell price from...
The legal system of common law in Anglo-Saxon
Essay - 4 pages - International law
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...
Democratization versus Rule of Law
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Professor Daniel Saadoun distinguishes three features that are deemed essential in a modern democracy: universal suffrage, the inscription in the preamble of the Constitution of a set of rules that the State cannot modify or erase and the obligation for the State to look after all the rules...
Criminal law : consent
Essay - 4 pages - European law
In criminal law, there exists a defense of consent. Within this defense, there is a general rule that a person cannot consent to his being caused actual bodily harm. No one can ever lawfully consent to his own death-R v Young . This opens the debate on issues related to euthanasia,...
There is no sense in maintaining different rules for tracing at law and in equity. One set of tracing rules is enough
Essay - 3 pages - Business law
In the administration of a trust, the trustee is the one that assumes a range of duties and responsibilities. When a breach of trust occurs, the trustee might be liable for both acts of omission and commission. There are several ways a beneficiary can pursue remedies for a breach of duty on the...
Contracts and tort law - Causation and loss of chance
Essay - 10 pages - Other law subjects
When it comes to tort or contract litigation in the aim of obtaining damages, the most important aspect to take into account is the issue of causation. Indeed, without proving a causal link between the defendant's action and the claimant's harm, no liability can be held. This rigor is a means of...
The Law Reform Committee Essay: Murder (Rethinking the Mandatory Life Sentence)
Essay - 5 pages - European law
Sir Edward Coke stated in the Third Part of his Institutes that "of all felonies, murder is the most heinous". As such, murder has always received the most severe punishment the law could give; a law of King Canute stated that Aberemord 'caedes manifestae' was punishable by...
International Business Law: Three cases
Essay - 6 pages - Business law
This paper talks about a buyer, located in Miami, who ordered 2,500 cell-phones from company for a total amount of $150,000 (including the shipping charge). But there were several problems with this order: the order was delayed and the phones were damaged by moisture during shipping. One of the...
International Business Law
Essay - 10 pages - Business law
A buyer, who had previously ordered phones from a Company, recently ordered a batch of 2,500 phones from it at the price of 40/unit, for a total of 100,000, plus a fixed 500 shipping charge, for delivery to "CIF Miami." At the Buyer's request, the phones have the Buyer's logo printed on...
Consent to bodily harm and criminal law
Thesis - 5 pages - Criminal law
In R v Barnes [2005] 1 WLR Lord Woolf CJ considered the decision of the House of Lords in R v Brown [1994] AC 212 and the Court of Appeal in R v Dica [2004] QB 1257 and decided that it is clear that the rule and the exceptions to the rule that a person cannot consent to his being caused actual...
