Bangladesh/Myanmar (ITLOS 2012): How Bangladesh Won Its Place in the Bay of Bengal

In its first maritime boundary case, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea drew the…

Nicaragua v United States (1986): The ICJ Rules on Force, Intervention and Self-Defence

In 1986 the International Court of Justice held that the United States had breached international…

Corfu Channel (United Kingdom v Albania) 1949: The ICJ’s First Judgment

When two British warships struck mines off the Albanian coast in 1946, killing 44 sailors, the…

R (Miller) v Prime Minister; Cherry v Advocate General [2019] UKSC 41: The Prorogation Case

In September 2019 an eleven-justice UK Supreme Court unanimously held that the Prime Minister’s…

Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala (1973): The Case That Created the Basic Structure Doctrine

Hearing a religious leader’s challenge to land reform laws, a thirteen-judge bench of the Supreme…

Brown v Board of Education (1954): Ending “Separate but Equal” in American Schools

In 1954 a unanimous US Supreme Court held that racial segregation in public schools violates the…

Marbury v Madison (1803): How Judicial Review Was Born

A disappointed office-seeker, an undelivered commission and a politically threatened Supreme Court…