Organised Gangs in Today's Urban Environment

Since the attempts of the World Trade Center, it does not happen one day that the media tell the exploits of the various organized strips existing in the World. Suffering from an absence of wide definition because of their variety, the notion of organized gangs arouses a serious study. Indeed, resting on a selective, constant and definitive membership, summarized by the formula "blood in, blood out", the disregard of rules workbenches by the strip is punished by the death.

The Powers of the Public Employer in Franco-Italian Comparative Law

This research consists in a comparison between the legal instruments of human resource management in the French and Italian public service sector. The objective is to evaluate their efficacy and uncover the main problems linked to their implementation.In the Italian public service sector, the manager is assimilated to the employer found in private firms. The link between the public servant and the administration is first regulated by a specific law, then by collective bargaining and labour law.In the French system, labour law isn't applied to the public service sector.

The Higher Principles of the Juvenile Offenders Penal Code

Following one decade of continuous reforms of the juvenile offenders penal law and while a global recast of the matter is considered, it appears important to question the superior principles governing it. Despite its original crystallization, starting in 2002, through the original mechanism of fundamental principle recognized by Republic Law, and its protection by some international tools, the autonomy of the juvenile justice is still currently questionable.

The Human Body and Life and Health Insurance

In that it is intimately linked to the person, the human body is a delicate entity which is the object of diverse protections. Amongst these figure personal insurances which, with their nature of precaution, play an important economic and social role that justifies easier access. This study aims to determine in which manner the specificity of the human body and the will to protect it affect the two principal aspects of contractual processes in insurance: the understanding and the coverage of risk factors. Indeed to determine a risk and to decide to cover it, the insurer must understand it.

Subsidiarity in Private Law

Subsidiarity which constitutes a leading principle of European Union law has also its place in private law. It is a functional notion that can only be comprehended through its applications, the search of the place that it occupies in private law passes through analysing the various functions which it has. It is an autonomous notion which has to be distinguished from close situations where there's a concept that is elaborated according to another one said to be principal or primary.

The right of individual action on the basis of treaties on the promotion and protection of investments

The settlement of international disputes is classically studied thought the concepts of judicial power, jurisdiction and admissibility. However it is now common to find references to the notion of « right of action » or « right of claim » in decisions of international tribunals especially when individuals are involved. One might wonder whether this observation reveals an evolution in the concepts governing disputes settlement in international law.

The contractualisation of relationships between the State and Territorial Collectivities

The development of contractual technique between the State and local authorities in France is an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of their relationship. The contractualisation of relationship between the State and local governments (territorial contractualisation) has become the symbol of an unfinished decentralization, halfway between a model based on principles of the Jacobins and another model based on partnership or the idea of co-administration. Territorial contractualisation appears as an opportunity to transcend this difficulty.

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Perspectives of the Vietnamese Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time. The WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), negotiated in the 1986-94 Uruguay Round, introduced intellectual property rules into the multilateral trading system for the first time. Vietnam became the 150th member of the WTO since January 11, 2007.