(a.) The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(2) The authors have searched through French and western jurisprudence about transsexualism.
(3) It points out that the supreme court itself banned executions of intellectually disabled prisoners – still known as "mentally retarded" in US jurisprudence – in 2002.
(4) Certain of the enhanced interrogation techniques apparently approved by US senior commanders in Afghanistan in the period from February 2003 through [to]June 2004, could, depending on the severity and duration of their use, amount to cruel treatment, torture or outrages upon personal dignity as defined under international jurisprudence,” the ICC prosecutor’s office said in an annual report on its activities .
(5) In two states that require physicians to pass a separate medical jurisprudence examination for licensure, all four-year medical schools offer a course on health law for medical students.
(6) Public health jurisprudence now presupposes that illness is primarily a matter of individual concern.
(7) Concerning poorly controlled epilepsies, we believe that experts will be allowed to express their opinion and a new jurisprudence will make up for the silence of the law.
(8) Development of a sound jurisprudence of predictions faces major hurdles given the trend toward unscientific predictions in the law and the enormous judicial confusion in dealing with predictions.
(9) French jurisprudence about outpatient anaesthesia is resolutely unfavorable.
(10) Abbott said he was focused on letting Indonesians know it was in their best interests “and in accordance with their best values, with the quality of mercy that has such a big a place in Indonesian jurisprudence” to stay the executions.
(11) The subjects are religion, astrology, history, jurisprudence and medicine.
(12) Some derogations could attenuate the severity of these dispositions--as jurisprudence had taken progresses of Epileptology and therapeutics into consideration.
(13) What happened next passed into the annals of international jurisprudence as the first time a former head of state had faced arrest under international human rights law, principally the Convention Against Torture that came into force in 1987.
(14) Medical ethics, medical jurisprudence, and medical economics are recognized as important components of a medical school curriculum.
(15) The supreme court, Grieve said, was not bound to apply the Strasbourg jurisprudence, but only to take account of any judgment of the European court of human rights, adding: "This court is entitled to take its own course and should do so where it has sufficient doubt about the soundness of the reasoning adopted by the European court of human rights."
(16) The obligation of the result appears to be distorted in the course of jurisprudence.
(17) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
(18) First preparation camps For the mujahid on the day he joins the Islamic State, whether as a muhajir or from the ansar: and the camp includes sharia sessions through which the mujahid studies the fiqh [jurisprudence] of the rulings, Islamic doctrine, al-wala’ and al-bara’ [loyalty and disavowal], in addition to the arts of fighting and the arts of using weapons, with screening of every mujahid in a specialty in which he excels and completing his camp according to his skill in specific weapons.
(19) "The view that sensitive issues of social policy, of this kind, should be decided by national parliaments is," Grieve maintained, "entirely consistent with the jurisprudence of the court.
(20) There are no Islamic courts, no practice of its jurisprudence, no laws from the Quran, and yet on Saturday we saw Reclaim Australia rally violently, their placards demanding the country say “No to Sharia!” Reclaim Australia rallies 'hurtful' to new migrants and refugees Read more Seeing barricades, lines of mounted officers, rivals groups brawling over the truth of the “Islamification” of Australia, is a little overblown when we consider that Muslims, as 2% of the population, possess little by way of political power, have no significant representation, and own no capacity to impose their will.
Jurist
Definition:
(a.) One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the request of the American Association of Jurists, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was called upon to consider violations of international law of the self-determination of peoples by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as to make proposals for change.
(2) The other signatories include John Dugard, a South African jurist and former UN special rapporteur in the occupied territories; Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European parliament; Cynthia McKinney, a former member of the US Congress; Ronnie Kasrils, a South African former cabinet minister; and the dramatist Caryl Churchill.
(3) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
(4) Buergenthal is a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the power of his testimony is magnified by a jurist's coolness and eye for detail.
(5) For example, a 1976 report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists concluded: There is abundant evidence showing the systematic use of impermissible methods of psychological and physical torture of political suspects during interrogation.
(6) They also coincided with a report by the International Commission of Jurists , which singled out the UK for complicity in torture and abusive counterterrorism laws.
(7) The public can see through this partisan political attack by the unions and the Labor party on one of Australia’s most distinguished and eminent jurists.” “Our political opponents, the Labor party, have been seeking to attack the umpire in this royal commission, namely justice Heydon himself, from day one,” he said.
(8) Having failed to get the Christian Democrat trade unionist Franco Marini appointed in the first two votes, after dissent from its left wing – and in the face of the inspired proposal of Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement to make the progressive jurist Stefano Rodotà its own candidate – the PD had a paper majority to elect Romano Prodi, the only politician its camp has produced in the past 20 years who has actually defeated Berlusconi.
(9) The eminent jurist apparently expects more leeway in terms of not reading things and not remembering things than he would be likely to afford one of his witnesses.
(10) We, the undersigned lawyers and jurists, write to express our deep concern about the scores of lawyers detained or intimidated in China .
(11) The issue then was how to discover it, and the jurists devised elaborate rules for doing so.
(12) The purpose of judging the dead was to "inflict terror on the living", explained a French jurist in 1784, and the message of the Magnitsky trial was similarly blunt: cross us and we'll nail you, dead or alive.
(13) Professor Michael Scharf of Case Western Reserve University, acting as spokesman, told The Associated Press that a draft for such a court been quietly under development for nearly two years by many of the key figures from other national and international war crimes tribunals, as well as Syrian jurists, politicians and leaders.
(14) Today a group of eminent jurists accuse governments and enterprises of being in clear and flagrant breach of their legal obligations on climate change – under human rights law, international law, environmental law, and tort law .
(15) Participation in geronotology by anthropologists, theologians, and jurists is pleaded.
(16) Schröder's concern to provide pedagogues, psychologists, and jurists with a study of the characterology of children deviating from the average or norm, which has been made from the psychiatrist's point of view, may be considered fully realized even today.
(17) Amnesty International, Justice (the British affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists), and Redress, the human rights organisation helping torture survivors obtain justice and reparation, have oined the case.
(18) However, the legislature did not take into accout that some jurists believe that loss of the capacity to procreate is a permanent affliction prohibited by article 5 of the Civil Code.
(19) Islamic jurists resolved it by concluding that such children must have an underlying “hidden” sex which was waiting to be discovered.
(20) Furthermore, despite the initiative proposed by the Ecuadorian government to create a bilateral group of jurists to facilitate a solution to the case (accepted by the British government in June 2013), it’s unfortunate that no results have been reached to date.