Power to the people
Courts versus governments
Privacy in the digital age
Freedom of speech and press
YOUR GOAL
Master of Landmark supreme court cases
schopenhauer India's Supreme Court struck down a 158-year-old colonial law to decriminalize consensual same-sex relations.
schopenhauer South Africa's Constitutional Court outlawed the death penalty, establishing human dignity and the right to life as absolute values.
schopenhauer Match landmark cases with their rulings to discover how the Supreme Court protects your rights.
Death penalty ban: When South Africa's court banned the death penalty in 1995, it was one of the newly democratic nation's very first major constitutional rulings.
How many young plaintiffs filed the landmark 2018 environmental lawsuit against Colombia's government?
In which year did the Constitutional Court of South Africa abolish the death penalty in S v Makwanyane?
How many Supreme Court justices voted to strike down school segregation in the 1954 US Brown v. Board decision?
Who was the president of South Africa's Constitutional Court during the landmark S v Makwanyane case in 1995?
Which US Supreme Court case in 1954 declared public school segregation unconstitutional?
In 2018, Colombia's Supreme Court declared which natural feature to be a "subject of rights"?
Which constitutional amendment did the US Supreme Court rely on to outlaw segregation in Brown v. Board of Education?
Section 377, struck down by India's Supreme Court in 2018, was originally introduced by which colonial power?