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supranational courts  

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  • Supranational applied to legal systems refers to both institutions created and governance conducted at a level higher than the nation-state. Since the Second World War, groups of states have signed agreements (often regional) to cede some decision-making authority over specific subjects to collective entities, thereby reducing any individual member-state's abilities legally to act unilaterally. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Courts, Supranational]

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