jurisprudence

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

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Recent Examples of jurisprudence After less than five years in power, the Court’s new majority has rendered the country’s religion jurisprudence unrecognizable, even to a lawyer who would have been considered an expert in the Constitution’s approach to religion less than a decade ago. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 30 Apr. 2025 To abandon it now would reverse over 150 years of constitutional jurisprudence. Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 This is neither balanced jurisprudence nor an arcane legal dispute. Darrell Issa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025 The jurisprudence was sorely lacking — Oliver Wendell Holmes would been horrified, Louis Brandeis grave rolling. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jurisprudence
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Noun
  • And American law, then as now, tends to favor legacy over hustle.
    Aron Solomon June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
  • Idaho Supreme Court says Sánchez vacated her seat In an opinion written by Justice Gregory Moeller, the Supreme Court disagreed with Sánchez on three essential points surrounding the Idaho law cited by the City Council.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2025
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  • What To Know On Sunday, Jahangir wrote in Mizan, the Iranian judiciary's outlet, that 71 people were killed in the Israeli strike on Iran's notorious Evin Prison.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • Iran's judiciary said the men were convicted of espionage on behalf of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.
    Sahar Zand, ABC News, 28 June 2025
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  • The justices consolidated two cases for arguments in April, a Justice Department appeal and an appeal by the family of Ari Fuld, an Israeli American fatally stabbed at a shopping mall in the West Bank in 2018.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 20 June 2025
  • In a world where greed runs rampant... justice is best served radioactive.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025

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“Jurisprudence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jurisprudence. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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