Some international locations allow their highest judicial authority to overrule legislation they decide 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 colleges, finding such statutes to be incompatible with the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In developing the frequent law, tutorial writings have always performed an essential part, both to gather overarching ideas from dispersed case law, and to argue for change. William Blackstone, from around 1760, was the first scholar to collect, describe, and educate the widespread law.
- Ethan Elkind,