Legal Environmental of Business Questions:
1)You play drums in a band that is very popular on your campus. In addition to playing other groups’ hit songs, your band plays music that you write. One of your songs has gone viral and has over five million “likes” on Facebook. Your band copyrighted this song and is selling the single via iTunes. You learn that someone in Spain is selling downloads of the song without your permission. You want to stop the unauthorized sales. You are aware of the Berne Convention, an international treaty that would require Spain to recognize your copyright and enable you to enforce your rights in that country. You are thrilled that this treaty exists and you wonder how it came into existence. How are international agreements like the Berne Convention adopted?
A)The president and a majority vote in the Senate can ratify a treaty.
B)Treaties must be approved by the supreme power of each nation. In the United States, approval by both the president and the Senate is required. The treaty must pass in the Senate by a minimum vote of two-thirds.
C)The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is authorized to sign treaties on behalf of the United States.
D)The president is authorized to sign treaties, and, when he or she does, the United States is bound.
2)In order for the provisions of a treaty to apply to a country, the country must:
A)be named in the treaty.
B)agree to being under the jurisdiction of the World Court.
C)have ratified the treaty.
D)have a financial interest in the terms of the treaty.
3)Which of the following are the THREE places a court may look to as a source of international law? Choose 3 answer choices.
A)International treaties
B)International organizations
C)International customs
D)International legislation
4)A choice-of-law clause in an international contract will determine:
A)whether the International Court of Justice will hear any disputes arising from the contract.
B)which country’s law will apply in the event of a dispute.
C)whether the parties must arbitrate any disputes.
D)in which country a complaint for breach of contract may be brought.
5)Which of the following is true about the International Court of Justice? Choose 3 answer choices.
A)The jurisdiction of the court is limited to hearing cases from countries which agree to be bound by its decision.
B)It is also known as The World Court.
C)All countries are bound by its decision.
D)Only a country may initiate a case on behalf of individuals in this court.
6)Regulations created by international organizations:
A)become controlling law for all countries once adopted by the World Court.
B)are not law unless adopted and ratified by individual countries.
C)are automatically controlling law for all countries.
D)become controlling law for all countries once adopted by the United Nations.
7)When an international organization creates model regulations, it does so with a(n):
A)goal of promoting the interests of one nation over another.
B)world-centric approach.
C)nation-centric approach.
D)intention that they be modified to suit the goals of individual nations.
8)International laws primarily differ from U.S. laws in which of the following respects? Choose 3 answers.
A)who is bound by the law
B)how long the law is effective
C)who can interpret the law
D)how the law is created
9)When a U.S. employer does business abroad, whose laws govern the business?
A)both U.S. law and the foreign nation’s law
B)only U.S. law that has been approved as a treaty
C)only the foreign nation’s law
D)The business may choose U.S. law or the host nation’s law.
10)An agreement or contract between two or more countries that must be authorized and ratified by the governments of each country is what type of international law?
A)comity
B)a treaty
C)uniform rules
D)international standards
11)A common law system differs from a civil law system in which of the following ways?
A)A common law system relies primarily on case law.
B)A common law system is based on a constitution and statutory law.
C)Due to stare decisis, courts in a common law system have less flexibility than in a civil law system.
D)In a common law system, legislative enactments are more binding than case law.
12)For an international arbitration to take place under the New York Convention, which of the following must be true? Choose 2 answers.
A)Any nation may conduct the arbitration.
B)The arbitration may include any number of parties from any signatory nation.
C)The parties must have a written agreement for arbitration.
D)The agreement to arbitration clause arises out of a commercial legal relationship.
13)International organizations, such as the United Nations, provide regulatory guidance to their member nations through: (Choose 2 answers.)
A)the act of state doctrine.
B)the establishment of uniform rules.
C)the adoption of standards.
D)the comity doctrine.
14)Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA), if a foreign national is entitled to sovereign immunity for an act committed on U.S. soil, the foreign national:
A)cannot be prosecuted but must leave the country.
B)is subject to fines only.
C)cannot be prosecuted until they leave the embassy.
D)is not subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.
15)Under which of the following will one nation recognize and give effect to the laws and judicial decrees of another nation?
A)the principle of comity
B)an international convention
C)an international custom
D)the act of state doctrine
16)What is the type of international law that evidences a practice developed over the course of a relationship between nations that is accepted as law?
A)an international custom
B)an international convention
C)an international standard
D)comity
17)What is the name of the doctrine under which a nation’s courts accept the validity of the actions of a foreign nation that are committed by the foreign nation in its own territory?
A)the principle of comity
B)the forum selection doctrine
C)the sovereign immunity doctrine
D)the act of state doctrine
