Articles tagged as US Law
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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....
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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:...
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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...
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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,...
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
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......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Patent Law in Biotechnology and Bioethics
Administrative Law
The project has to deal with the issues that have arisen in significant patent law cases concerning biotechnology and bioethics. The project will ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
The Business Judgement Rule
Business Law
INTRODUCTION- The collapses world over shook the trust and reliability of stock holders on the director’s. Obviously leading to the ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Duties of a Board
Business Law
The word ‘Board’ originally referred to the table around which a council sat. It was sometimes used in the 19th century to refer to a meeting ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
