Essays on Prohibition

The above excerpt encapsulates the principle articulated by the ECJ in Hoffmann-La Roche (HLR) i.e. exclusive purchasing agreements and loyalty-inducing rebates are abusive by their very nature. The excerpt thus invites the discussions about the current and future development of the case law in the regime of exclusive dealing and conditional rebates, particularly since Intel potentially indicated a departure from the ‘form-based’ approach to a de facto ‘effects-based’ analysis, thus bringing ...

In the 1920s and early 30s there was a thing called prohibition. Prohibition was a band if any use of alcohol /booze world wide. There were multiple reasons that alcohol was banned but one of the main reasons was if everyone were to stop drinking then they thought it would solve the nations crime, poverty and violence levels. Overall they thought that drinking alcohol was the main reason for everyone’s terrible personal and social behaviours. So in the the next few paragraphs I will talk ...

Since the time when the intoxicating results of fermentation were first discovered, many have advocated against its use. It is believed, especially among religious groups, that the use of alcoholic spirits is associated with a decline in mortality and a detachment from Judeo-Christian values. In 1920 the United States government took a stance of temperance and outlawed the substance outright. The Prohibition period in American history is little more than a failed social experiment. It ...

In 1919, the 18th amendment was established and prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages. 12 years later, Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1932 election and ended prohibition with the 21st amendment. This 12-inch-tall, 8-inch-wide rectangular poster depicted Roosevelt’s stance on Prohibition. The repeal poster was created to show Roosevelt’s support to repeal Prohibition during his 1932 presidential campaign. This poster ...

Prohibition began after World War I as an attempt to legislate morality and bring crime rates down. It was a time characterized by speakeasies, glamor, flappers, jazz music, and gangsters, and a period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. The criminalization of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors in 1920, known as Prohibition, lead to the establishment of speakeasies, which were hidden sections of an establishment where gangsters illegally ...

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (Bradbury, Pg. 35). Banning books blocks the public from an outlet that would better their understanding of the world around them. Books are everywhere, and many of our shows and movies now have come from books. Books have helped the spread of ideas, knowledge, and religion. They help record information, so that it may last for ...

Nicaragua vs United States, tried in 1986 by the ICJ, is arguably a landmark case when it comes to the enforcement of the prohibition of the use of force within international law. The dispute came into the international legal scene on April 1984, when Nicaragua filed an application instituting proceedings against the US in order to make them accountable for “military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua. ” Such claim was the result of several military and non-military ...