Sentences with phrase «of jurists»

The first use of this word with this meaning was in Roman law, where it indicated the opinion of a jurist on a given question, expressed in written or in oral responsa.

The caliber of jurists on the Committee is also motivating for law students seeking to gain a better understanding of why judicial independence is a significant issue.

Within the past half - century the greater ease of communication and travel has brought the peoples of the Muslim world into closer contact with each other and with the cultures of the rest of the world and made them aware of the need for a new evaluation of the ideas of the jurists and thinkers of the middle ages.

In drawing attention to Hadith as the accepted modes of juristic deductions, but also gave a new impetus to the science of Hadith and paved the way toward the formation of a new school of thought, known as the People of the Hadith, a school which rejected the authority of the jurists and sought direct guidance from the Hadith in matters concerning Islamic law.

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

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.

One wishes that more of our jurists would take to heart his demonstration that «the various clauses of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights can be established, in their meaning, only by attaching them to the properties of a moral argument.

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.

Trump's once - extensive list of jurists under consideration for the seat of the late U.S. Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia — all pre-vetted by the conservative Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society — is now reportedly down to three names, all current Court of Appeals judges.

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.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

At the very least, these three politically charged education cases complicate the picture of a jurist best known for a methodology — originalism — that was strikingly absent in these contexts.

The job of a jurist is to put your opinions and views on these things to one side and try your best to be objective and impartial and that's what I will do,» he says.

Jeannie Shawl of Jurist has this piece covering all three decisions.

Holmes's style continues to find its voice in the witty, sometimes - biting opinions of jurists such as Antonin Scalia, Bruce Selya, Richard Posner, and Alex Kozinski.

University of Pittsburgh law professor Bernard Hibbitts, editor of JURIST, has moved his Paper Chase blog to a new URL.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: John Paul Stevens is the very best and most collegial of jurists.

Sam Alito has finally been initiated into the club of jurists who've been roughed up by Antonin Scalia's writings.

Part of the Bluebooks's resilience lies in the installed base of jurists and law professors who, forced to master it as a part of the process of legal education, feel obliged to require others to do the same.

They were each very diligent in insuring that I was provided with all manner of cases from a variety of jurists across Canada.

The new millennium will be tremendously exciting as the CAPCJ continues to prove the excellence of our jurists.

The opinion should be read closely not only by sentencing fans, but by everyone seeking a truly informed perspective on the type of jurist that Judge Sotomayor now is.

«More judges under investigation; Experts call 5 ongoing probes of federal jurists unprecedented»: The Houston Chronicle today contains a front page article that begins, «U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent is the first federal judge to be indicted for alleged federal sex crimes, but he's only the latest in a string of jurists to face misconduct allegations in 2008, for behavior such as frequenting a topless club or lying under oath.

How is a journalist, ANY journalist, even remotely qualified to pronounce fitness of a jurist?

One of the jurists impatiently asked for his position on the appropriate standard of review.

And talk of his hard - fought appeal before the Supreme Judicial Court still makes Satin's eyes light up as he recalls how enamored he was by the stature of that panel of jurists.

Both of these jurists could use the term «justice» without it being created by statute.