Some international locations allow their highest judicial authority to overrule legislation they determine to be unconstitutional. For example, in Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court nullified many state statutes that had established racially segregated faculties, finding such statutes to be incompatible with the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Law professor and former United States Attorney General Edward H. Levi noted that the “fundamental sample of legal reasoning is reasoning by instance”—that is, reasoning by evaluating outcomes in instances resolving related legal questions. Supreme Court case concerning procedural efforts taken by a debt collection company …
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Public international law has a special status as law because there is no international police force, and courts (e.g. the International Court of Justice as the primary UN judicial organ) lack the capacity to penalise disobedience. The prevailing manner of enforcing international law is still essentially “self help”; that is the reaction by states to alleged breaches of international obligations by other states. However, a few bodies, such as the WTO, have effective systems of binding arbitration and dispute resolution backed up by trade sanctions.
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