Sentences with word «jurist»

A jurist is a person who is knowledgeable about the law and legal principles. They are often experts in interpreting and applying laws, as well as providing legal advice and opinions. Full definition
Cuomo must make clear that he expects the commission to present him with a broader sampling of New York's legal minds — including a fair share of jurists who may be more philosophically conservative than he is — then pick the best, brightest and most balanced court he can find.
Sam Alito has finally been initiated into the club of jurists who've been roughed up by Antonin Scalia's writings.
Yale only trumps other schools because its expenditures per student are greater than other schools, Brian Leiter, a law professor at The University of Chicago, argued to National Jurist magazine in 2013.
in Filipino) professions consist of a large number of different kinds of law - trained persons, known as jurists, some of whom are advocates who are licensed to practice in the courts.
A note on precedents - a number of leading jurists in many countries have raised red flags that due to the increase in arbitration over litigation that this is actually stifling the development of the law in common law jurisdictions thereby increasing uncertainty about the law and therefore compliance costs.
Judge Jones was one of the most respected jurists on the federal bench and remains one of the most respected lawyers in the city of New York.»
Senate Majority Conference Leader John L. Sampson said: «This legislation represents a victory for New Yorkers because it will ensure the State is able to attract and retain the most talented jurists for the bench.
That «court» has been widely criticized by jurists around the world as little more than a kangaroo court in the service of a government owned and run by big - business plutocrats.
2 Volume 21 begins with three essays written by distinguished jurists who are thinking about technology and its impact on their courtrooms and chambers.
Terry Romaniuk, has put together an indexed, annotated, and updated source «designed to provide Canadian jurists with quick research access to case law in regard to applications for intrusive warrants».
Catering to both its national live - stream and Florida audiences, the conference will feature both its annual Judicial Panel with prominent Florida federal judges and an additional session on e-discovery sanctions with well - known jurists from across the nation.
G. Arthur Martin was Canada's greatest criminal advocate before he became a leading jurist with the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The respected jurists of the Supreme Court who threw away Wike's infantile application to stop the Governorship Petition Election Tribunal, are they APC members?»
This article originally misidentified Glen Weyl's co-author as Richard Posner, the eminent jurist who is University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner's father.
The famous American jurist Clarence Darrow once said, «The trouble with law is lawyers.»
I believe that more development on Jurist Canada is in the works.
The sanctions session will include noted e-discovery law author and retired Florida Circuit Judge Ralph Artigliere and two of the most well - known jurists in e-discovery law, retired US Magistrate Judge John Facciola (D.D.C.) of Georgetown University and retired US Magistrate Judge James Francis IV (S.D.N.Y.) of The City University of New York.
The president will announce his nominee to the Supreme Court today Wednesday, just over a month after the death of conservative jurist Antonin Scalia left a vacancy on the bench.
The distinguished German jurist does, however, make two important observations (which he need not have attributed to Marx, as he did, since many others have empirically made more exact points).
Cornell Law School center to be dedicated in Paris in July The Cornell University Center for Documentation on American Law in Paris will be dedicated July 17 before an audience of the world's leading jurists at an international judicial conference.
But I do not understand comparative law in this way; nor do I understand this as being an important lesson that comparatists have to teach to international jurists struggling with general principles.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement that Abdus - Salaam was a pioneer with an «unshakable moral compass» and «a trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all.»
In a statement after her death, the governor called her a «trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all.»
Ten years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision in Blank v. Canada, thereby putting an end to considerable debate among Canadian jurists regarding the scope of the litigation privilege.
To help these important concepts spread throughout the globe, American Legal Publishing partners with the World Jurist Association (WJA) to help the WJA and their members meet their publishing needs.
Following a survey of American law schools, the fall 2017 issue of National Jurist magazine names Chicago - Kent among 20 schools with the most «innovative curricula, programs and approaches to preparing students for the future.»
This post originally appeared on the website of the New Jurist, an international law magazine.
As to other fermented drinks, there is a difference of opinion among Muslim jurists.
Well the Philadelphia based one seems alive and very much kicking but I don't seem to see a lot about Jurist Canada.
«American Muslims should enjoy the freedom to build their places of worship wherever permitted by local zoning laws,» the retired Supreme Court jurist said at a luncheon where he was honored by the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation.
Raggi and her fellow jurists did not rule on a request by Daniel Chill, an attorney for Assembly Democrats on LATFOR, for Mann to consider incumbent residency in her drafting.
So the Common Law jurisdictions train legal mechanics and not jurists.
There are also two Republicans on the list — former US Attorney Michael Garcia and Gail Prudenti, an experienced jurist who retired as the chief administrative judge in July.
Brooklyn federal court judge Ann Donnelly and several other jurists issued temporary injunctions keeping the Trump administration from deporting or detaining people with paperwork approved under President Barack Obama.
«Utah's top federal jurist violated judicial rules with Obama donations»: This article appears today in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Each will be awarded the AABA Outstanding Jurist Awards for their exemplary law and judiciary careers.
One of the greatest jurists of the 20th century, he was clear that workers must have a right to withdraw their labour but was also clear that this right can not be unlimited.
Also, over the centuries Islamic jurists never agreed on the specifics of modest dress for women.
It is obvious that such disputes touch the very core of Islam, and it is no wonder that the Muslim theologians and jurists became the bitterest enemies of the Sufis and fought them on all fronts for centuries.
Schumer said he decided to vote «no» on Gorsuch, and will encourage fellow Democrats to do the same, because he thinks the 10th Circuit Court jurist has a «deep - seated conservative ideology» and lacks «a strong independent backbone.»
However, many jurists in Italy dispute this view.
And the «vague» papal pronouncement that Mr. Lowell seems to doubt was ever made was, in fact, a major — some think historic — allocution, delivered in 1953 to an audience of Italian jurists, in which Pope Pius XII laid down the principle that «in the interest of a higher and broader good, it is justifiable not to impede error by state laws and coercive measures.»
During a debate at Long Island University at C.W. Post, the moderator, Hofstra University school of law dean and former jurist A. Gail Prudenti, told Democrat Laura Curran and Republican Jack Martins that village residents pay a lot for public safety but don't feel their neighborhoods are patrolled enough.
This time around, candidates «may demonstrate that they satisfy the geographical requirement by reference to their bar membership, judicial appointment, or other relationship with Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and Northern Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut)», suggesting that regional affiliation is now required but may be loosely defined — for example, it may include jurists who formerly practised in the West or North.
«Judge Gorsuch's 10 - year tenure on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals indicates that he's a highly qualified jurist with an «originalist» or «textualist» approach, much like that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia,» began ATRA president Tiger Joyce.
Following this line of argument, if there is a judgment call in question, it can not be the judgment of the lawyer who acted as a brilliant jurist within the confines of the law.
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