jurisprudence

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

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Recent Examples of jurisprudence These aren't abstract values—they're the building blocks of Anglo-American jurisprudence and the Western moral and legal tradition. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 One is a law to legalize euthanasia, which has wide support, including from his daughter Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti), a formidable jurisprudence scholar herself. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025 Daimeon Shanks is a doctoral candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at Berkeley Law, studying legal history, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. Lauren Gifford, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025 In so doing, the courts largely cast aside a century of jurisprudence in which courts were deferential to the Commissioners’ role as guardians of their leagues. Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jurisprudence
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  • To the extent permitted by applicable law, all judgments or awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket damages (excluding attorneys’ fees) associated with participation in this Promotion and shall not include any indirect, punitive, incidental and/or consequential damages.
    Vogue, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Colorado law defines stalking, in part, as when a person knowingly and repeatedly follows, approaches, contacts or communicates with another person in a way that causes that person serious emotional distress.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Kalaja’s killing quickly became a lightning rod for nationwide dissatisfaction with the Albanian judiciary.
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Until recently, the judiciary tended to indirectly address the claims that now appear more formally as the unitary executive theory.
    Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • But the glacial pace of the Child Victims Act cases has forced Walker, Holmes, and the other plaintiffs to wait years for possible justice.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Lauren's history with the criminal justice system has been scrutinized in the days since Zettel's killing, with friends and others calling her death preventable.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Jurisprudence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jurisprudence. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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