jurisprudence

as in law
formal the study of law a professor of jurisprudence

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Recent Examples of jurisprudence Now, having done so much to influence American jurisprudence, Leo has set his sights on reshaping American culture. Obed Manuel, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024 That’s both for lower-court takes in applying Bruen’s history-and-tradition test and for the future of the high court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence. Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024 The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed and said that such a right is not rooted in the history of American jurisprudence. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024 Two noteworthy chapters discuss this history in which successive national states grappled with how to integrate Western jurisprudence and both customary law and sharia. Mark Fathi Massoud, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for jurisprudence 
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Noun
  • By Alison Durkee In April, President Joe Biden signed a law that prohibits U.S. app stores from hosting TikTok unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, relinquishes ownership.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • After years of lobbying, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on November 2, 1983.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
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  • How, then, should these judges approach this opportunity to lock in their legacies and that of a conservative judiciary?
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There is also much discontent among the public regarding the judiciary system, because there are still ongoing cases related to the coal theft issue that happened two years ago, and also some issues related to the development bank, so the people were asking about those processes.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The spotlight has shown light on the big, bad wolves on the other end of those chats, yet the spotlight itself has perverted the process of real justice by making this a righteous spectacle.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Equating the leaders of a democracy with leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization – and more recently, with the Taliban – is an insult to the principles of justice.
    Beth Bailey, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025

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“Jurisprudence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jurisprudence. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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