Articles tagged as US Law
This selection of law essays, problem questions and case summaries is relevant to students within the US and for law students from outside the country wishing to learn more about the laws and legislature of the USA.
Latest Law Papers tagged as US Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
Freedom of Thought Conscience and Speech
Constitutional Law
Freedom of thought (also called the freedom of conscience or ideas) is the freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint … ...
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Capital Punishment
Criminal Law
Capital Punishment. It has been suggested that ‘It costs several million dollars to induce a painless death…it costs approximately $35,000 a year to house…criminals in prisons’. However, punishment by death is 100% effective in respect of the murderer who faces execution. ...
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
The Martha Stewart Insider Case
Company Law
The Martha Stewart insider case was a high profile court case that captured media attention. It was also one that was filled with great ambiguity a… ...
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Eyewitness Testimony: How Reliable Is It?
Criminology
Psychology has been used in the court systems when the competency of a suspect needs to be measured to determine if they are able to stand trial. ...
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Overview of the Eighth Amendment
Constitutional Law
‘The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States’ (‘The Constitution’, para.2). It exists to … ...
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Freedom of Contract the Meaning and Significance
Contract Law
The freedom to enter into contracts and to direct the use of economic resources one owns are essential to the operation of a market economy … ...
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Legal Burden of Proof
Criminal Law
Any student of the law of evidence soon becomes familiar with the dictum of Viscount Sankey LC in Woolmington v DPP where he said: ...
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Representation Is a Statement Made Before a Contract
Contract Law
Madison sold his private dental practice at Jurong Central to Jane after convincing her of the good profitability of the business and … ...
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The Stakeholder Theory Summary
Business Law
The development and implications of the stakeholder theory The primary debates of the stakeholder theory The comparison between the shareholde… ...
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US Legal Realism Movement
Administrative Law
“…the life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political … ...
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Company Secretary in Good Corporate Governance
Business Law
Corporations, whether by family firms or state enterprises, work within boundaries set by law, by regulations, by those who own and fund them and by the expectations of those they serve. The nature of these boundaries varies from country to country and undergoes crucial changes through time. That is why there can be no single … ...
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Historical Roles of Non Executive Directors
Business Law
This essay discusses the historical roles of Non-executive directors (NEDs) starting with the Cadbury (1992) code of best practice and their role … ...
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Media and Telecommunications Law: The Right to Privacy
Administrative Law
Privacy (from Latin privatus separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government, from privo to deprive) is the… ...
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Criticisms of Shareholder and Stakeholder Debate
Business Law
“…the company, as an artificial person, can have no interests separate from the interests of those who are associated with it, whether as shareholders, creditors, employers, suppliers, customers or in some other way. So, the crucial question is, when we refer to the company, to the interests of which of those sets of natural persons are we referring? Of course, one could take the view that the beauty of referring to the interests of the company, without any further specification of what is meant, is that the answer to my question is left wholly ambiguous and obscure … ...
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Racial Discrimination in the Workplace
Employment Law
“Race discrimination involves treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because he/she is of a certain race or because of personal … ...
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Sexual Harassment in a Workplace
Employment Law
How does Viper work? Viper scans your work against over 6 billion web pages, as well as against all work previously submitted to our company. Viper… ...
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Business Ethics and Corporate Governance – McDonalds
Business Law
Corporate Governance: the way in which the board is structured, changes over time, relations with shareholders, and shareholder activism ...
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Role of Business Ethics in Society
Business Law
BUSINESS LAWS AND BUSINESS ETHICS Abstract: the economy of a country or state is dependent of business, trade, industries and products. Business … ...
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The Supremacy of the Law
Administrative Law
Law, as it is the command of the Sovereign which means that law has its source in sovereign authority, law is accompanied by sanctions, and the … ...
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Veil Piercing in Corporate Governance, Dissertation
Business Law
The dissertation’s inquest was born out of an appreciation of the concern expressed by a plethora of related contemporary literature that, the veil protecting directors and shareholders… ...
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Meta Tags and Trademarks Laws
Business Law
The age of technology has experienced vivid expansion in modern years, and the use of search engines has altered the use of internet from flaccid … ...
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The Principal Officials Accountability System
Administrative Law
Everyone is responsible for its own fault and mistakes, especially in this wrestling field of politics. We often see politicians reluctantly … ...
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Ethics is Branch of Social Science
Business Law
The term ethics is derived from the Greek word ‘ethos’ which means character. Ethics is the branch of the social science, which deal with concepts such as right and wrong, ...
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Misleading and Unfair Commercial Practices Regulated
Commercial Law
The UK and European Law are generally very much concerned with protecting consumer rights. This includes not just applying restrictions… ...
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