SOMMAIRE

Table des matières

SESSION 1: Regime types and Organizational structures of government 2
SESSION 2 : Organizational structures of government 4
SESSION 3: AREAS OF PRIVATE LAW 1 7
TORTS, DELICTS AND QUASI-DELICTS 7
SESSION 4: AREAS OF PRIVATE LAW 2 9
CONTRACTS 9
SESSION 5: AREARS OF PRIVATE LAW 3 11
PROPERTY SECURITY / COLLATERAL INTERESTS IN PROPERTY 11
SESSION 6: STUCTURING THE BUSINESS 15
SESSION 7: CROSS BORDER ACTIVITIES 18
SESSION 8: CROSS BORDER CONTRACTS 20

SESSION 1: Regime types and Organizational structures of government

Slide 4: Democratic – Constitutional government= a set of rules for the people who make the law
Ex: Saoudi Arabia is not a constitutional gvt – Rule of law= the same rules apply to everyone in the same way (even the people who make the laws) – Popular sovereignty= THE PEOPLE decide who is gonna make the law – Plurality= who ever gets the most votes wins – Majority requirement= half of the votes +1 – Accountability to the populace= the people that we have elected to represent us, if they do not perform the way we want them to perform, we can remove them by not voting for the same joke at the next election – Political competition, political parties= phenomenon developed because

Slide 5: Totalitarian – All-encompassing ideology (communism, fascism)
Ex: North Korea (communistic regime), Nazi German people, Cuba

Slide 6: Authoritarian

All about power
The one with the gun is the one who controls everything.
Ex: Rwanda, Liberia

Slide 7: Constitutional Government

IDEALS:
You cannot have a complete freedom and a complete justice at the same time and at the same place – if a complete freedom, the most powerful one will makes its own justice – if a complete justice, its means limited freedom

PRINCIPLES:
Constitutional government

Establish Distribution of powers:
Absolute Power corrupts : in democratic system, we divide power among