Ethical and legal issues
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Data publications should take into considerations the rights and responsibilities about ethical and legal issues. Fields that handle critical information as medics and the media have a duty to limit the data that is accessible to the public. Data shared should be reasonable and should not...
Describe the nature and degree of human rights violations reported in the country and the legal/ethical basis for identifying practices as human rights violations. Study case: Myanmar
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
Events such as the liberation of famous activist Aung Saan Yuu Kyi last year, Hillary Clinton's visit to Yangon, or the first pluralistic elections for more than two decades, give Myanmar1 the image of a new and progressive country (The Economist: 2011). Despite such trends of political...
Critically discuss the legal theory of Austin
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The existence of law is one thing, its merit or demerit is another. John Austin (1790-1859) defines the essence of positivism in this one sentence, which is generally cited as the standard exposition of the imperative theory of law, from his book ?The Province of Jurisprudence Determined'...
Book review: American Africans in Ghana: Black era Expatriates and the legal civil Rights Era
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The book; American African in Ghana was written Kevin Gaines and published by Chapel Hill publishers, at the University of North Carolina. The book emphasizes on the interconnections between the African studies and African American studies by introducing, in its broad chapters the context of...
Amnesty and illegal immigration
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The contentious concept of amnesty for illegal immigrants in US is one that is deep rooted in the history and culture of the American nation, a fact authenticated by the fundamental foundation of the nation by early European immigrants and “melting point” phenomena. The word amnesty,...
Legalization of Marijuana
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Public policy includes the decisions and actions that governments take in order to address certain public issues and problems. These policies are made in accordance within the set legal government guidelines, regulations, procedures using public resources. One of the issues and problems...
Essay for foundations of legal philosophy
Case study - 8 pages - Philosophy
George Eliot, in her book Silas Marner, wrote that the truth is somewhere in between, and it is my opinion that this applies to the Hart-Fuller debate (the Hart-Fuller debate being representative of the greater ongoing debate between the legal positivists and the natural lawyers). It is...
The legal and political issues of Darfur
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Educational studies
In 2003, the escalation of conflict in Darfur has been one of the biggest humanitarian crises of the twenty-first century. The United Nations did not call it genocide and sent only a limited number of mediators and United Nations personnel to Sudan. There were many conflicting reports on...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work? - publié le 28/06/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant...
Critically assess the significance of the principle of subsidiary within the EU's legal framework
Case study - 14 pages - Political science
Central concept in the ‘European language', the principle of subsidiarity is at the core of the European Union (EU) legal order, at the heart its politics and policies. With the principles of conferral, of proportionality, the direct effect of the supremacy of EU law, the principle of...
UK and French legal system : structural and conception differences
Case study - 6 pages - Civil law
The governing laws and its legal system in France and the United Kingdom have major differences, as each of the legal systems have and are based on various views. France is governed by the Constitution of 1958. All the French laws are based on this text. In the United Kingdom, the...
A legal perspective on digital property: Laptops in United States customs and border protection - published: 11/12/2012
Case study - 20 pages - Management
In this paper we will strive to answer several legal questions regarding the search and seizure of digital property at the United States border by U.S. customs officials. In a hypothetical scenario, a defendant crossed the border with illicit materials such as child pornography saved in a...
How do the World Trade Organisation agreements impact upon the laws and legal systems of the WTO member states?
Case study - 21 pages - International relations
Article XVI § 4 of the Marrakech Agreement has put an end to the “grandfather clause” which, under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), allowed the Member States to invoke a previously existing domestic law to escape their GATT obligations. It provides that: “Each...
A legal perspective on digital property: Laptops in United States customs and border protection
Case study - 29 pages - Educational studies
In this paper we will strive to answer several legal questions regarding the search and seizure of digital property at the United States border by U.S. customs officials. In a hypothetical scenario, a defendant crossed the border with illicit materials such as child pornography saved in a...
Child labor in India: Assessing the efficiency of legal tools and governmental policy
Case study - 19 pages - Educational studies
Child labor is a widely condemned practice which can have staggering effects on the health and wellbeing of children, as it can often involve toiling in mines or quarries, being exposed to harmful chemical substances, or sitting and standing for long hours in dreadful conditions. In response to...
International legal tools - published: 04/04/2012
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
An Italian company orders some chemical products by phone from a German supplier on the 12 of December 2001. On the 18th of December, a confirmation by fax of the order is sent by the Italian company to the German supplier. The purchase order specifies that the product must be in the granular...
The legal effect of unilateral acts of States and international organizations
Essay - 7 pages - International law
The International Law Commission is responsible for the codification and progressive development of international laws. It had its forty eighth session in 1996 and the issues of Unilateral Acts and their legal effects have figured prominently in their discussions. There is an uncertainty...
The business strategy of Yahoo Inc. after the legal case 'Yahoo vs. LICRA'
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Yahoo Inc., the second largest global search engine was summoned to court in May 2000 by the French association LICRA (International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism). It was accused of selling Nazi memorabilia such as a can of Zyklon B gas used in death camps, at a price of $ 50, via its...
Critical analysis of the arguments surrounding the morality of engaging in "insider trading" in securities markets: although it is illegal in most stock markets, could the practice ever be eradicated totally and would this be desirable? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Finance
As the securities markets were expanding rapidly in the second part of the 20th century, a widespread assumption maintaining that insider trading must be prohibited on moral grounds took root in the collective consciousness. These economic transactions are illegal in most stock markets and the...
English legal system: The Sources of English Law
Course material - 87 pages - Constitutional law
The judicial decisions are the first to be found to develop a system. Today, they are still influencing the system as a whole. Judicial decisions have a weight that their continental counter part does not have. In England, under certain requirements, decisions are biding the judge with the...
The foreign policy implications that the treaty on the constitution of Europe signified for the EU in terms of giving it a legal personality
Thesis - 6 pages - European law
Whereas the consequences of the French and Dutch “no” to the referendums proposing the adoption of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe do not stop to rattle the European political class, the innovations it proposed are still dangling. Nonetheless, some major points have...
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...
Formalizing plea bargaining in justice and equality in the English legal system
Thesis - 6 pages - Other law subjects
Before discussing plea bargaining it is perhaps paramount to define what is meant by the expression. Plea bargaining refers to ‘the exchange of a guilty plea for a reduced charge or some hope of a reduced sentence.' In other words it is an agreement between the prosecution and the defense...
The effectiveness of legal restrictions on distributions to shareholders in achieving "Creditor Protection"
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
In this essay, I will critically evaluate the effectiveness of legal restrictions on distributions to shareholders in achieving “creditor protection”. It consists of showing the good and the bad points of these restrictions. Firstly, I will define the terms used previously. Then,...
Legal agreement for the appointment of a non-exclusive distributor
Standard contracts - 12 pages - International law
This document is a sample legal agreement for the appointment of a non-exclusive distributor. “Intellectual Property”: means any patent, copyright, registered design, trade mark or other industrial or intellectual property right subsisting in the Territory in respect of the...
Consider the extent to which international law is law, or 'really law' or 'law properly so-called' with reference to legal and other theorists
Essay - 6 pages - International law
Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl noticed that at first sight, ‘International' and ‘Law' sound contradictory: “how can one imagine a structured and developed legal system functioning in a political environment that is diffused, disparated, unregulated and conventionally...
Legal aspects of international mergers and acquisitions: Sacyr/Eiffage - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - International law
The Sacyr/Eiffage case involves two public construction companies, the Spanish Sacyr Villehermoso and the French Eiffage. First, let's introduce those two companies. Sacyr is a leading Spanish construction company based and listed in Madrid. It is publicly traded and part of the IBEX 35, the...
A paper concerning assessing the value of legal Tribunals
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
It has become the case that over the course of the 20th century an ever-increasing number of tribunals have come into existence alongside the ordinary civil courts, dealing with a wide variety of disputes, usually between the citizen and the state. Although tribunals do not adjudicate in all...
Ontario Landfill gas: Management, regulation & recovery. legal & policy issues
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Ecology & environment
Landfills seem to be a major part of waste disposal life. Love them or hate them, they are a necessity in dealing with ever increasing amounts of waste. Statistics Canada reported that Canadians threw out about 20 per cent more garbage in 2004 compared to 2000, bringing per-capita output to 418...
