Is the doctrine of consideration adequate to modern business?
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
The doctrine of consideration is one of the most established rules within the common law of contract. It saw the light during the early stages of the English contract law of the Middle Ages. At first, contracts were established under the word of honor, but this soon became a problem since there...
What are the different sources of the law in England and Wales, and what are the common law rules which engage with an actionable misrepresentation?
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Business law
The document answers two short essay questions from Business Law Final Summative Assessment of Regent's University London. The questions are the following: 1- Critically assess the different sources of the law in England and Wales. 2- Explain the difference between a representation and an...
Business Law: Transnational commercial contracts
Course material - 15 pages - Business law
Parties can choose the law applicable to the contract and other should respect that choice. Recognized for the first time in France with the decision "American trading" in 1910. Today this principle is recognized by a lot of conventions and is a general principle.
The Legal, Ethical, and Technological Concerns in Investments
Case study - 2 pages - Business law
The need for accountability links the accounting and financial reporting of businesses to the law. The main interest of the law in this case is to protect the interests of the public from manipulations of the statements to exploit unsuspecting citizens. In addition, the law creates a platform for...
Success of the Yam! Brand, Inc Global Company that Feeds the World
Case study - 1 pages - Business law
In my case am going to be assessing the Yam! Brand, Inc. David Novak who was the chief executive officer developed an ambitious plan for a food company he had led eight years. This plan aimed at improving the performance of the company although it had many challenges and problems. The first...
Book Summary-Revolutionary War of America
Case study - 1 pages - Business law
The setting of the story is the Revolutionary War of America that took place in the late1700s. The book tells about women's contribution and how the war affected them. Berkin expresses a deep admiration for women in these hard times by describing their priceless contributions. The characters...
Application of management information systems
Case study - 2 pages - Business law
In 1995 the World Bank introduced a knowledge management (KM) programs that is a new form of management information system (MIS). This was a system that could be used to define a strategy on the business needs of the organization (Zeleny, 2005). On the other hand, American airlines developed a...
Larry Page
Case study - 4 pages - Business law
The Business essay will be focusing on Larry Page, the CEO Google. Larry was born in March 26, 1973 in the America. Page is a computer scientist from the University of Stanford in Palo Alto and an American business magnate who together with Sergey Brin founded Google. Page became the CEO Google...
Understanding the learning style
Case study - 6 pages - Business law
Learning is a dynamic psychological process that entails getting information into the mind of an individual. The learner concentrates on his proficiencies, memorizes, and finally articulates his thoughts and perceptions. It makes the individual make sense about his environment hence enabling him...
Logical problem of evil and the freewill defense
Case study - 3 pages - Business law
The problem of evil according to Inwagen (188) is defined as the label for an intellectual problem that is contrary to emotional, spiritual, psychological and theological problems. The prevalence of evil in the world or the logical problem of evil can easily be used to form a basis for an...
Link between Borrowers' Risk and Mortgage Lending
Case study - 6 pages - Business law
Borrower risk is defined as the type of risk that borrowers of any financial funds such as loans or mortgages are exposed to when they borrow either large or small amounts of money. Borrower risk mostly occurs when an individual borrows money against property or assets that have a high property...
Supply Chain Management: Sony Corporation
Case study - 5 pages - Business law
Supply chain management is defined as the integration of a network of suppliers, manufacturers, distribution centres and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to their intended customers. Sony has been able to develop its own supply chain management...
Trade Theories
Case study - 2 pages - Business law
manufactures to customer, is important because it provide end users with their basic needs. For the process of trading to be effective, various factors such as environment factors that affect the process need to be considered. Some of these effects have great negative impacts to businesses and...
Employment at will doctrine: Law, Ethics & Corp. Governance
Case study - 4 pages - Business law
When thinking about privacy laws and the collecting of citizens' private information, there are certainly a few things that come to mind. First and foremost is the technology that helps us in so many facets of life and has brought us closer together, has also began to bring into focus the...
Automobile contracts as the fulcrum of the automobile industry
Thesis - 4 pages - Business law
This paper argues that automobile contracting is one of the most important tenets of the automobile industry as supported by the various articles on the import of contracting in the global business arena by Michael P. Vandenbergh. There are however specific areas of interest to all the parties...
Three Case Studies of Business Law
Essay - 7 pages - Business law
In the first situation, we can identify three main issues. First of all, the order arrived a few days late. Then the Buyer asserts that the MP3 Players were damaged by moisture by the ship's hull. These two problems are linked to each other: the Buyers wants us to cut the sell price from...
The Salomon case
Case study - 3 pages - Business law
Since the Salomon case, the doctrine of separate corporate personalities constitutes the corner stone of British company law. Thus, a properly incorporated company is considered as having a legal personality of its own and ought to be treated as a legal entity distinct from its shareholders even...
International Business Law: Three cases
Essay - 6 pages - Business law
This paper talks about a buyer, located in Miami, who ordered 2,500 cell-phones from company for a total amount of $150,000 (including the shipping charge). But there were several problems with this order: the order was delayed and the phones were damaged by moisture during shipping. One of the...
International Business Law
Essay - 10 pages - Business law
A buyer, who had previously ordered phones from a Company, recently ordered a batch of 2,500 phones from it at the price of 40/unit, for a total of 100,000, plus a fixed 500 shipping charge, for delivery to "CIF Miami." At the Buyer's request, the phones have the Buyer's logo printed on...
There is no sense in maintaining different rules for tracing at law and in equity. One set of tracing rules is enough
Essay - 3 pages - Business law
In the administration of a trust, the trustee is the one that assumes a range of duties and responsibilities. When a breach of trust occurs, the trustee might be liable for both acts of omission and commission. There are several ways a beneficiary can pursue remedies for a breach of duty on the...
Cool Phone's Case Analysis
Essay - 6 pages - Business law
This study involves a scenario where you are the vice-president of a 75-person company ("Company") in the fictional French-speaking country of Euphoria, whose capital is Anytown, whose legal system closely resembles that of France's, and which is party to the CISG. The company designs and...
International business law, allied tows, inc. in Utopia
Essay - 15 pages - Business law
As a potential multinational firm, Allied Toys wants to implement a business development strategy in a predetermined country, in order to see if this model could be applicable as a 'worldwide development strategy'. The fact is that the Republic of Utopia is a country where setting up a...
Indirect takings (readings summary)
Book review - 2 pages - Business law
The concept of indirect taking lacks of a clear definition. Instead, it appears as a concept having a variable geometry. Contrary to the characterization of a situation of direct expropriation which is relatively easy and straightforward (ex: nationalization of an investment), the...
The U.S. and Bilateral Investment Treaties
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
The number of Bilateral Investment Treaties or BITs has grown dramatically during the last few decades. They are presented as an important tool of FDI and a key factor contributing to foster economic growth and development. As underlined in the paper, BITs have become the major tool for the...
NAFTA Dispute Settlement
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
This paper illustrates the tensions inherent to the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA dispute settlement mechanism. They also underline the difficulties encountered to establish a proper balance between two legitimate and contradictory interests, namely the protection of investors'...
Customary International Law and FDI
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
The notions of expropriation and of its compensation are at the heart of every discussion pertaining to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In fact, one might argue that these notions, among others, reflect the complex nature inherent to the FDI mechanism. The complexity lies in the fact that the...
NAFTA's Chapter Eleven and Fair and Equitable Treatment
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
The interpretation of Article 1105 of the North American Free Trade Agreement or the NAFTA has generated and will generate many controversies regarding the meaning of its first paragraph. Given this provision's open language, the controversies and doubts are understandable. According to Meg...
Umbrella Clauses and Transfers
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
An umbrella clause generally reads as follows: "each party shall observe any obligation arising from a particular commitment it may have entered into with regard to a specific investment". We can infer from this statement that the aim of this clause is to protect any specific commitments by...
Forum-shopping and Amicus
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
The article by Professor's Bjorklund article underlines the complexity encountered by parties with respect to international investment litigation. The factors pertaining to this complexity are multiple and exist at virtually every stage in an investment operation. Among these factors of...
NAFTA's Chapter Eleven and Non-Discriminatory Treatment
Essay - 2 pages - Business law
One of the first and foremost agreements which has been driven by policy considerations is the NAFTA agreement. This agreement was especially created so that three important countries in the world (US, Mexico and Canada) would benefit economically. On clearly assessing this agreement, a layman...
