How big disputes reach most powerful court no one’s ever heard of

  BRUSSELS — It is a small institution with an outsize influence on the world map. And Tuesday's  ruling by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration — on a territorial dispute between China and the Philippines — will be just the latest judgment from an institution that has reshaped borders and taken on powerful governments and public companies […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/12/how-big-disputes-reach-most-powerful-court-no-ones-ever-heard-of/