It is used to control businesses who attempt to use their economic influence to distort market prices at the expense of consumer welfare. Immigration law and nationality law concern the rights of foreigners to live and work in a nation-state that is not their own and to acquire or lose citizenship. Both also involve the right of asylum and the problem of stateless individuals.
- Another example is in the 19th-century English case of R v Dudley and Stephens, which tested a defence of “necessity”.
- European Union law is the first and so far the only example of a supranational law, i.e. an internationally accepted legal system, other than the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
- This usually entails exploring case-law reports, legal periodicals and legislation.
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- These are laid down in codes such as the