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The article is devoted to the problems of correlation between International Humanitari-an Law and International Human Rights Law, mainly to investigation of two viewpoints on the issue. International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law are by themselves two different but mutually complementary branches of International Pub-lic Law. Both are aimed at ensuring protection life, health and human dignity. Whereas International Humanitarian Law is implemented solely in situations of armed conflicts, Inte...

In 2016 the European Union (EU) became centrally supervised regarding a unified regulation of the so-called Banking union, making also the area of the euro currency a monetary union with a common approach to integrated policy implementation in a non-federalized union. Since modern fiat, i.e., non-backed money creation within the EU banking system has not been affected by any legal reforms, the author has done legal research on its meaning for property rights of EU residents, especially in light of recent events su...

The aim of the article is the fulfillment of the comparative legal analysis of the property rights protection in the civil law of the Republic of Kazakhstan and countries of the European Union. The research is based on the spectrum of the civil legal provisions, which regulate the issue of the property rights protection in the civil law of Germany, France and the Republic of Kazakhstan, their compliance with the current requirements and the ability to meet the challenges of time and thereby the development of the ...

Data shows an increasing number of children and youth growing up in a family atmosphere burdened with parental conflicts. Hostility in relationships between parents often spills over into the parent-child relationship. This paper will present the results of quantitative research which was focused on correlations between children's perception of parental conflicts, and the quality of the parents' marriage, and the experience of parental acceptance-rejection during childhood. The survey included 468 students of the ...

The scientific purpose of the research is, first of all, the analysis of Polish legal provisions aiming to determine whether the institution of public-private partnership, regulated by these provisions – as one of contemporary applied method of performing of public tasks – affects the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of public administration tasks, including the tasks of local government units. The Polish Act of 28 July 2005 concerning public-private partnership (Journal of Laws of 2005, item 169, with amen...

Division of power as a base principle of construction of state power is a major precondition for establishment and construction of democratic and functional states in accordance with international acquitted standards and practices. The last political and institutional crisis in RM reveals serious flaws in functioning of justice system, as corruption, politization, scope of judicial institutions from politics, etc., but above all the loss of citizensВ’ faith. The rule of law, democracy and respect for human rights ...

In banking market the guarantees by individuals for non-business purposes need an enforcement of consumer protection. Indeed, it could be really difficult to improve guarantorВ’s protection because European case-law admit a consumer protection only if the debtor under the principal contract does not qualify for consumer protection. The main aim of the paper is to demonstrate that the guarantor could benefit from consumer protection even if the guarantee related to a contract for the supply of goods or services to ...

The paper aims to analyse the sole trader (Rom., persoana fizica autorizata or P.F.A.) from the Romanian law perspective, by focusing on the characteristics of this legal institution, the liability for performing economic activities under this form, as well as certain implied practical and fiscal issues. The Romanian legislation has suffered serious amendments in the last period as it is the case of the Romanian Civil Code, which has been amended in year 2011. The legal provisions on the sole trader have been also...

The nowadays Europe appears to us as a scenery reflecting, in other images, the history of a continent revolved by attempts, disputes, challenges for the exceeding of which is necessary finding, every time other solutions, the aimed finality being every time the same, security and peace on continent. The history has reflected the necessity of an international alliance between states, the fundamental aim being to ensure stability on a regional and continental level, as well as the fact that alliances created by mil...

Corruption is one of the biggest challenges of the time, a worrying phenomenon for the whole society, therefore society most oppose it by trying in various ways to prevent it. Corruption as a great evil, today is present in all societies in all its forms, certainly in some countries is more extended and in some other less extended. Corruption is one of the heaviest forms as a prevalent appearance in modern societies and unfortunately, some forms of the corruption have become an everyday concern in our country. Cor...

According to the European Space Agency statistics posted on July 2013, the orbit contains a curious number of debris. Specifically, there are more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), and about 670,000 debris ranging between 1 and 10 cm. Further, around 29,000 larger debris were estimated to be in orbit. Figures from the U.S Strategic Command drafted report indicate that in the EarthВ’s orbit, there are 17,852 artificial objects, including 1,419 operational satellites. Due to the fact that we can co...

This research intends to investigate the origin of space tourism, as well as its legal framework. The first space Tourist was Denis Tito who is credited with being the first space tourist. He is a U.S citizen who worked for NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite being of American descent, his International Space Station trip was facilitated by the Russian Government through the Roscosmos State Corporation. Overall, the trip cost 20 million dollars. For over 40 years, only states had monopoly for activities in...

In the scientific study, author discusses recognition as a forensic method, which in terms of criminal law also constitutes an important procedural step. Scientific study is one of the outcomes of the research project registered by the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava under the number 167, entitled "Implementing the recognition in the police practice". The research was conducted from 2012 and it was completed in 2016. The collection of empirical material was done by using a structured questionnaire and th...

European countries support their national economies and entrepreneurs in various ways. Goals include GDP growth, employment growth, and the development of public services. The article focuses on the various types of state aid. The states are limited by the regulations of the European Union: under Article 107 (1) TFEU, state aid is incompatible with the internal market and is therefore generally prohibited. An exemption from the prohibition may be granted on the basis of block exemptions or the decision of the Euro...

The article explores the system arrangement and determination of a methodology of a new scientific branch in the system of financial law – regional financial law. The work is an attempt to analyze a possible development of the financial law system through changing approaches in the methodology of studying financial law, meaning consideration of financial law system not only horizontally but also vertically, highlighting a new trend in the study of financial law – regional financial law, which, in the authors v...

Achieving an optimal balance between work, personal life and family responsibilities is a key contributing factor to the employee's overall well-being, reflected in 3 areas: health care, employee productivity and retention. There are many ways to enhance work life balance and creating a flexible organizational culture is one of the most effective option. In this paper, we reveal the importance of telework in enabling a supportive and healthy work environment, which will help employees to achieve a better work life...

The Romanian criminal law confers a much broader significance on the notion of civil servant than the law of administrative contentious. By virtue of these regulations, some categories of public officials, under certain conditions, if they do certain things, will not be criminally liable for corruption or service offenses. In the present paper, we propose to analyze the different categories of civil servants and the way in which they are criminally responsible for the acts of corruption. We will carry out a legisl...

In terms of legal theory, Ukraine, as the main structural element of the political system, carries out the state policy the aim of which is provided in the Constitution of Ukraine. This policy is demonstrated in different directions, defining the main objectives and content of the state activity in all areas of public relations. One of the structural elements of the state policy is legal policy, the main task of which is to create an effective system of social relations regulation by legal means. Depending on its ...

The article is devoted to the issues of constitutional goals definition and constitutional values in the sphere of public power organization in modern Russia. The authors note the special role and importance of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in determining constitutional goals and values and reflect on how effectively the Constitutional Court manages the mission of the determinant of goals and the creator of values. Also, the authors tried to understand the issues, including: the necessity and ...

The article deals with unveiling the peculiarities of decentralization process of public authority in the states of Central Europe (on the examples of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic). The scientific and theoretical interest in this issue is caused by the necessity of improvement (actual renewal) of a number of basic institutions of democracy and local government in Ukraine. The methodological basis of the investigation involves a set of scientific research methods which are typical of legal science in ...

The scientific purpose of the research is, first of all, an analysis of currently in force and previously in force provisions of Polish law, aiming at identifying and pointing out the amendments, which took place in the Polish legal system with regard to an institution of public-private partnership agreement, and thus to show the evolution of the institution of this agreement. Passing an Act of 19 December 2008 concerning public-private partnership (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 696, with amendments) a legislator ...

Insolvency legislation reform in the country began back in 1997 when the new bankruptcy law was enacted and published in the “Official Gazette” in October 1997. It entered into force on 6 November 1997 and came into effect on 5 June 1998. With the enactment of this new law, the former “Law of Forced Settlement, Bankruptcy and Liquidation”, as state regulation, used after the breakup from Yugoslavia, was replaced and never used again. This 1998 law was amended three times: in July 2000, 2002 and 2004, and w...

According to our researches, the relationship between illegal migration and the terrorism should be emphasized. The attitude of the European legislators was changed by the terrorist offences were committed in the territory of the European Union in the past few years. Terrorist offences proved the vulnerability of the European States, and the rule of democratic law. In 2014, 276.113 migrants entered the European Union irregularly, which represents an increase of 138% compared to the same period in 2013. It should b...

The emergence and functioning of the European Union is not an element of absolute novelty in international relations, but it could be argued that it is the consequence of capitalizing on the experiences that history has built over time at national and international level for each of the European states. The history has reflected the necessity of an international alliance between states, the fundamental aim being to ensure stability on a regional and continental level, as well as the fact that alliances created by ...

Initially, only states were capable of running space programs. The period of rivalry between the greatest powers after World War 2 brought the dynamics of space exploration and the improvement of space technologies. During the cold war period, USA and the USSR were concerned that the other states could gain an advantage by sending armaments of mass restriction and conventional weapons to the orbit. In 1969, the first human landed on the Moon and stuck a US flag on its surface. Denis Tito flew in space in 2001 as a...

According to the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia is a representative body of the citizens and the legislative power of the Republic is vested in it. The organization and functioning of the Parliament are regulated by the Constitution and by the Rules of Procedure. As a representative body, the Parliament decides on behalf of the citizens based on the will of the electoral body and of the trust during the time of its mandate, therefore, the Parliament is a lega...

The principle of separation of powers, explained more simply, means that the three basic functions (activities) of the state need to have different bodies: the one who approves the law should not judge and govern, and vice versa, thus, the one who judges must not approve the law or the one ruling should not judge. Each function must have its own particular organs, they must not all join in the hands of a man or a body. Among the fundamental values of the constitutional order of the Republic of Macedonia exhibited ...

The scope of this study is the problem of universality and conventionality of human and civil rights. This institute is legislatively recognized in almost all modern legal systems. The shared values are the values that define the position of the individual in society - freedom, equality, justice. But representatives of each civilization have their own world view that affects the interpretation of these categories. It is no accident that the adoption of universal international acts on human rights is accompanied by...

The Sections 85 and 368 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the Republic of Latvia [3] prescribes only several cases when a person can be exempted from payment for defence provided by the state in criminal procedure. Sometimes the defendant refuses from a defender by the moment he gets to know that by the process termination, he will be recovered a payment for the defence provided him by the state. For instance, a refusal from an advocate during the agreement process mainly occurs with an aim to exempt a particular p...

Less than a year after re-codification of civil procedural law, the first amendment to civil procedure, the Civil Litigation Code, Act 160/2015 Z.z., has been passed. The amendment applies to the right of the party to act before a court using his/her native language or the language the party can understand. The presenters of the legislative proposal substantiated the need to amend the law by reasons of its harmonization with the existing rules of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages which is bi...

Currently, the imminence of the primary regulation of social relations in very varied fields makes it almost impossible for Parliament to intervene timely, which makes use of legislative delegation. Thus, not only the inefficiency, but also the inopportunity of Parliament's legislative activity are among the arguments put forward to empower the Government to issue ordinances, through which Parliament tries to transfer part of its responsibility to social issues to the Government. Legislative delegation is a living...

A series of big scandals from 1990s has drawn attention to the corporate sector and has brought about questions regarding the quality of the legislative scope of corporate governance. Apart from the active role of corporate governance as the key factor in protecting companies from corporate crime, particularly on the microeconomic level, its contribution on the macroeconomic level is also not negligible in terms of its impact on the effects of illegal business operations through the implementation of money launder...

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia in the process of decision making, regularly bases its decisions on the constitutional principles of separation of powers, rule of law, equality and non-discrimination, free elections and political pluralism, human rights and freedoms, freedom of the market, humanism, social justice and solidarity, as well as other principles. These principles are explicitly laid down in the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia as the fundamental values of the constitution...

The purpose of research - analysis of the concept of "health protection " in the Russian and international laws and regulations from the standpoint of compliance with the fundamental concepts of the law in the field of human health. The study authors was based on formal legal (normative-dogmatic) method, comparison method, logical method, the method of induction and generalization. In addition to these methods, as a specific research methods used linguistic interpretation, as well as studying the etymology of the ...

The contribution will focuse on the most controversial issues in the mechanism of human rights protection at the level of the EU and their current reflections in the time of crises, including the proposals de lege ferenda. The key part of the paper will be dedicated to the issues of the judicial enforcement of the provisions of the Charter reflecting the fact that this Union’s catalogue of human rights does not bring its own control mechanism in the form of the special procedure (on the contrary to the European ...

The primary goal of the study is, on the basis of theoretical and empirical analyses, to describe the level of theoretical processing the verifying testimony on the spot in criminalistics. The secondary goal is to find out lacks and trouble spots in practical applying the verifying testimony on the spot in the process of clearing up crimes. To achieve describing the objective conditions realized research were in the study used processing methods of historical and literary analysis. Achieved partial results are pre...

The goal of study is determining the conception of scientific fraud and its regulation by the norms of criminal law. The most dangerous delicts in international law received were named international frauds. To such deeds are related cyber crimes corruption, frauds with using official position, unfair commercial action, but such type of crime as scientific fraud did not get a normal consolidation. Even if this action has an international character, and brings not only material, but moral damage and brings treat to ...

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, there has been a wave of sovereign debt defaults and restructurings in different countries around the Globe. More than 10 countries have defaulted and restructured their sovereign debt with private creditors, including Greece, which in 2012 had the largest sovereign debt restructuring in history; also Argentina defaulted in 2014 and reached a settlement with creditors in April 2016. General Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution “Towards the establishment of a m...

Religious rights and controversial approach to their provision and implementation will always be in the centre of discussions in all states including multiconfessional Russia. One of the points is connected with educational process. The most contradictory issues are talking about Muslim religion: on the one hand, there are multiple examples from judicial practice where the right of Muslim women to dress in accordance with their religious commitments meets no protection, on the other hand, there is the permission t...

The Czech Republic has not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention of the International Labor Organization (hereinafter referred to as "ILO") No. 189 on Foreign Workers. In the vote on the adoption of the Convention in 2011, the vote was abstained and, on the basis of the Czech Government's failure to ratify, the Senate Senate on Health and Social Policy of the Senate of the Czech Parliament on 8 August 2012 decided that the Czech Republic would not join the ratification of the Workers' In a foreign household. T...