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Encyclopaedia Britannica

General Encyclopedia

Encyclopaedia Britannica is a long running English language general encyclopedia, first published in Edinburgh in 1768 and now maintained online. It draws on named subject specialists and an editorial review process, and its law and history coverage is used throughout this atlas for uncontroversial background facts about legal systems, courts and historical cases.

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Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
URL
https://www.britannica.com/
Source Type
encyclopedia
Sources
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Claims Backed By This Source (323 claims)

This source backs 323 claims across the atlas. As facts: 255 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 28 holds. Plus 38 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Jurists, 257 claims: 210 well-attested, 21 holds, 26 general references.
  • Courts, 24 claims: 18 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 4 general references.
  • Codes, 22 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 holds, 6 general references.
  • Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 holds.
  • Articles, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Doctrines, 1 claims: 1 holds.

Well-attested

255

Articles

The Judge Who Told a King No

Codes

Code of HammurabiConstitution of MedinaMagna CartaThe Twelve TablesUniform Commercial Code (UCC)Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Courts

European Court of Human RightsInternational Court of JusticeInternational Criminal CourtUnited States Supreme Court

Jurists

A. V. DiceyAharon BarakAndres BelloB. R. AmbedkarCatharine MacKinnonDalmacio Velez SarsfieldFelix FrankfurterFrancisco SuarezHan FeiziHersch LauterpachtHugo GrotiusJames KentJohn MarshallJoseph StoryOliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Ruth Bader GinsburgShang YangSir Edward CokeSir William BlackstoneWesley Newcomb HohfeldWilliam Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldWilliam Rehnquist

Open Questions

Has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights become binding customary international law?

Sources

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Scholarly debate

2

Courts

International Court of JusticeInternational Criminal Court

Holds

28

Codes

Petition of Right (1628)

Doctrines

Judicial Review

Jurists

A. V. DiceyAharon BarakAndres BelloB. R. AmbedkarCatharine MacKinnonDalmacio Velez SarsfieldFelix FrankfurterHan FeiziHugo GrotiusJames KentJohn MarshallJoseph StoryOliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Ruth Bader GinsburgShang YangSir Edward CokeSir William BlackstoneWesley Newcomb HohfeldWilliam Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldWilliam Rehnquist

Open Questions

Has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights become binding customary international law?

Sources

Commentaries on the Laws of EnglandDe Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace)Institutes of the Lawes of EnglandIntroduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution

General References

38

Articles

The Judge Who Told a King No

Codes

Code of HammurabiConstitution of MedinaMagna CartaThe Twelve TablesUniform Commercial Code (UCC)Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Courts

European Court of Human RightsInternational Court of JusticeInternational Criminal CourtUnited States Supreme Court

Jurists

A. V. DiceyAharon BarakAndres BelloB. R. AmbedkarCatharine MacKinnonDalmacio Velez SarsfieldFelix FrankfurterFrancisco SuarezHan FeiziHersch LauterpachtHugo GrotiusJames KentJohn MarshallJoseph StoryOliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Ruth Bader GinsburgShang YangSir Edward CokeSir William BlackstoneWesley Newcomb HohfeldWilliam Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldWilliam Rehnquist

Open Questions

Has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights become binding customary international law?
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