Law Definition, Systems, Institutions, & Fields

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…

law Definition, Systems, Institutions, & Fields

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…