Essays and Research Papers on Current Legal Issues

This 10 page paper looks at to case studies covering English company law. The first case concerns preference shareholders who are in dispute with directors that also own 80% of the company’s ordinary shares. The directors want to change the rights associated with the preference shares without the consent of the preference shareholders and are ...

A 4 page contention that the greater good can be achieved in regard to the reduction of criminal activity by utilizing the law. The author justifies this contention with the work of B.F. Skinner in operant conditioning. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 7 page discussion of this critical Supreme Court case. Heard in 1966, this case has had long lasting implications for law enforcement in terms of apprehension, arrest, and interrogation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

An 8 page paper discussing and comparing common law and the modern penal code, particularly as they approach intent and attempt. The paper classifies murder; assesses a bank robbery scenario; and provides proposed legislation for computer crime after examining three state and two federal statutes addressing the topic. Bibliography lists 9 sources. ...

A 3 page paper which examines whether or not the law should be involved in the morality of our nation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper considers one case where three individuals were charged under Utah’s bigamy law. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 9 page paper answering two discussion questions addressing Fourth Amendment procedural issues and providing a 5-page position paper on whether the exclusionary rule should be changed. The paper concludes that the rule does need to be altered to be made more workable, but that present there is not a viable alternative that has ...

This 20 page paper considers a fictitious treaty between 4 states that are all party to the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, where 8 years after the treaty came into affect there are disagreements. One state is arguing that they were coerced into accepting the terms by the other states through the ...

A 6 page paper summarizing the basic points of US immigration laws in the post-9/11 environment. Immigration requirements already were difficult for many before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Since then, they have become quite stringent. Bibliography lists 5 sources. A companion PowerPoint presentation is available.

This 28 page paper sets out to consider the proposition that lawyer operate in the public interest. The paper starts this by defining the role of the lawyer, which includes the UK definitions of both barristers and solicitors. Following this the meaning of public interest is discussed with reference to different perspectives, and the ...

This 14 page paper critically evaluates the extent to which English insolvency law currently meets the aim to ensure due recognition and respect abroad for English insolvency proceedings. The paper looks at the different corporate cultures in England, where there has been a creditor bias, compared with Europe and countries such as Germany and France ...

This 21 page paper looks at how privacy interpreted in international law. The paper starts with a consideration of the role of international law and considers now this may be applied to issues of privacy. The paper then looks at international law, focusing on the European Convention of Human Rights, examines the protection that is ...

This 9 page paper looks at three different scenarios. In the first an employer who has made a promise of extra payments wants to get out of the promise. The second concerns the liability of business partners for contracts entered into on behalf of the business. The last considers the liability created when a ...

This 8 page paper discusses some of the legal issues that surround rent-to-own enterprises. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 5 page paper considers the way the polluter pays principle and the precautionary principles appear in EU environmental law. The paper considers the attitude of member states and the trend towards a duel approach. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

This is a 13 page paper that provides an overview of landlord and tenant laws in the UK. The focus is on the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1985. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 14 page paper considers the argument that "In using law's terms in order to challenge law, feminism always concedes too much". The paper considers this in connection to jurisprudence, with the discussion including different forms of feminist theory and the way in which they may influence the study and practice of jurisprudence. The ...

A 5 page discussion of tort law as it relates to food contamination. The author outlines a fictional case involving contaminated ice cream. An analysis is presented regarding the burden of proof facing the plaintiff in regard to proving negligence on the part of the ice cream manufacturer. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 8 page paper provides an overview of a group of questions about criminal law. This paper uses case examples to support the assertions presented. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 7 page paper is written in two parts. The first explains the doctrine of binding precedent, also known as stare decisis. The second part of the paper looks at the strengths and weakness of common law as seen in English law. The bibliography cites 10 sources.

In ten pages this paper focuses on how laws for sex offenses have developed over the past 20-25 years with particular attention to the role of women in this process. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.

This 4 page paper examines sexual offender registry laws with a focus on Maryland. It is argued that such laws are constitutional. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 5 page paper answers a set of three questions. The first looks at if a there is the potential for the doctrine of direct effect to be used where the UK does not implement an EU directive (fictitious), the second looks at if indirect effect can be used if there is a law ...

A paper which considers the ways in which mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution might be more appropriate in family law cases than litigation, and looks at the relative advantages and disadvantages of both processes. Bibliography lists 4 sources

This 4 page paper considers statement that “The rule of law has no moral content”. The paper considers if this is true and whether morality is a necessary precondition for the rule of law. The bibliography cites 5 sources.