Constitutional and administrative law

Law European Commission

Public international Law can be formed by international organisations, such as the United Nations , the International Labour Organisation, the World Trade Organisation , or the International Monetary Fund. 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.

• Strategic lawyering by a team of Harvard Law students led Veterans Affairs to change its long-standing benefits policy that largely excluded surviving partners of LGBTQ+ veterans.
• The constitutions of certain Muslim states, such as Egypt and Afghanistan, recognise Islam as the religion of the state, obliging legislature to adhere to Sharia.
• For instance, the Quran