Sentences with phrase «many jurists»

His father, the famous jurist Richard Posner, has written many books, but not this one.

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.

From then on, jurists have appealed to the idea of a «living Constitution» to explain how the document retains relevance and authority despite the Supreme Court's having enslaved it to the changing desires of the electorate.

New Deal jurists pointed to the court's willingness to accommodate constitutionally dubious moral reforms to demonstrate the ultimate subjectivity of judicial decisions and the need for constitutional interpretation to evolve along with social and economic realities.

There are many ways in which such language can be given an orthodox construction: If, for example, you take your definition of «justice» from a law textbook (Aquinas likes the Roman jurist Ulpian) or from ordinary political usage, then there's no problem in saying God's mercy surpasses that.

Nuptias non concubitus, sed consensus facit (It is not sleeping together, but agreement that makes marriage), wrote the prominent Roman jurist Ulpian (170 - 228).

Also, over the centuries Islamic jurists never agreed on the specifics of modest dress for women.

The Maudoodi school, on the other hand, accepts only the Qur» an and the Hadith as the infallible sources of law and does not regard the decisions of the medieval jurists as binding in all cases.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

As to other fermented drinks, there is a difference of opinion among Muslim jurists.

Because of that, the literal - minded jurists deduced that Islam opposed art and music, which is not correct.

For example, when Muhammad saw a man dancing with a sword he smiled and showed his pleasure, so later jurists concluded that dancing with the sword is permitted.

For example, they consider it lawful to combine the noonday prayers with the evening and night prayers — but this is a practice which is sanctioned by some jurists among the Sunnis as well.

The question is still a subject of controversy among Muslim jurists, but there is general agreement that more than one wife is not permitted for the purpose of satisfying one's lust.

At the same time he maintained that he was still a follower of the Prophet of Islam and a non-lawgiving prophet, and since he brought no new law and adhered to the law of Islam as interpreted and codified by the jurists, he claimed to be a good Muslim.

Walliyulla had already turned Muslim attention to the Hadith as the real source of Islamic jurisprudence as opposed to the decisions of the jurists.

It is perhaps not without some significance that the Wittenberg jurist Hieronymous Schürpf served as best man at Luther's own wedding to the former nun Katherine von Bora.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

What is patent in the law in England is the effort of the jurists and parliamentarians to maintain the status quo and upper - class status and privilege until the industrial revolution, when the lower classes were eventually able to win the franchise and some [place] for themselves in governance after years of effort and much resistance.

Justice William O. Douglas was the first prominent American jurist to propose legal standing for environmental objects.

Study Islamic Jurisprudence (try the Distinguished Jurist's Primer, or Reliance of the Traveller for starters).

There are three problems with the current ill - tempered attack on capitalism by Ernst - Wolfgang Böckenförde, distinguished German jurist.

This time, the newspapers are touting a new diatribe recently released to the Italian press by Ernst - Wolfgang Böckenförde, a German jurist much respected (they say) by the pope.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

Arkes writes that his object is to restore the connection between morals and law that the Founders and our early jurists understood.

My own favorite is the testimony of William Blackstone, the famous jurist, who went from church to church in order to hear every noteworthy clergyman in London.

Albert Camus's essay «Reflections on the Guillotine» cites a 19th - century French jurist's application of the law of probability to the chance of a judicial error with a result of one innocent man's being condemned in every 257 criminal cases.

The Integrative Jurisprudence of Harold J. Berman Edited by Howard O. Hunter Westview, 164 pages, $ 59 A much - deserved festschrift for a jurist who has made an inestimable contribution to understanding the connections between law, morality, culture, and religion.

Justice Scalia has found his own, distinct touch as a jurist in offering the concrete example that illuminates the jural landscape; and in this case, he marked out with a chilling precision the path that leads out from Romer.

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.

The jurists became known as the externalists and the Sufis as the internalists.

Just as the attitude of the Sufis toward the religious teachings of Islam was a revolt against the jurists who stifled the true spirit of religion in order to preserve its form, their attitude toward God was also a revolt directed against the theologians and the philosophers.

Most legislators, jurists, politicians, journalists, and businessmen today draw heavily on the social sciences for a better understanding of social structures, processes, and possibilities.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a distinguished jurist and professor of law, will speak on the importance of Catholic schools for the Church and society - at - large in a secular culture.

new questions such as released time for religious instruction, prayer and Bible reading in the public schools, tax exemptions for churches and other religious bodies, and the very meaning of religion itself occupied the attention of jurists.

Media feminist activists are using allegations of personal misbehavior that are over ten years old and selective personal anecdotes to discredit the ability and judgment of a high profile professional jurist.

According to Marcel Boisard, Muslim jurists classify «jihad» (which means «intense effort / total endeavor / striving») into four different types: 1) the intense effort by the heart; 2) the tongue; 3) the hand; and 4) the sword.

«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.

The essay by the distinguished jurist and constitutional scholar Robert H. Bork on «lawless law» was an important part of that symposium, and he returns to that subject in a comprehensive and devastating article in the New Criterion, titled «Adversary Jurisprudence.»

Bernard Cottret has observed that «Calvin the theologian would be to the end Calvin the jurist.

The document claims that «legal scholars and international jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of preemption on the existence of an imminent threat — most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies, and air forces preparing to attack.»

The distinguished British conservative jurist, Lord Patrick Devlin, said that fornication should be regarded as a natural weakness that can never be rooted out, but must be kept within bounds.

Centered on the university there, it included both Protestant and Catholic theologians, but the core group was made up of the economists Walter Eucken (1891 — 1950), Constantin von Dietze (1891 — 1973), and Adolf Lampe (1897 — 1948), the jurists Franz Böhm (1895 — 1977) and Erik Wolf (1902 — 1977), and the historian Gerhard Ritter (1888 — 1967).

The Justice Department officials say that they would not categorically rule out of consideration jurists who are personally opposed to abortion but acknowledge the legal right to abortion.

In all these instances jurists are, according to the Times, disqualified from being considered for the federal bench.

So, too, was Guido Jung, Fascist Italy's Finance Minister, and three of the fifteen jurists who drew up the Fascist constitution of Italy.

It is cited amongst other places in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam issued in 1981 on the initiative of the Islamic Council of Europe, by Pope Benedict XVI in his lecture at the University of Regensburg, and then in thefollowing Open Letter to him from authoritative Muslim theologians and jurists.

Friends of civil liberties may object that jurists and legislators will be insensitive to the wide (and often disconcerting) range of worthwhile speech.

A great many writings on this theme are extant, some by jurists or historians — who tried to associate their position with a Christian point of view — others by politicians.