Bryane Michael is a jurist based at Oxford University and the University of Hong Kong.
The Geneva based International Commission of Jurists, a global organization of 60 eminent judges and lawyers, said this month that the court under Chaudhry strengthened human rights but added that an inconsistent choice of cases left it vulnerable to accusations of partisan intervention.
A30 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Legal Precedent in Bronx Raises Questions A legal opinion by a judge in the Bronx that allowed prosecutors to use 911 recordings of a woman's anguished call for help as evidence has been cited as a model by jurists across the country -- even though many of the facts that the judge based his decision on did not exist.
Politicians should use the term "genocide" only when historians and jurists have determined, based on evidence and analysis, that a genocide — a specific crime defined according to narrow factual and legal criteria — has indeed occurred.
Supposedly based on testimony recorded by jurists from confessions extracted under torture (testimony that was remarkably similar all over Europe), these prints serve to appal and excite, with just enough macabre excess to render the subjects ridiculous and deflect viewers from the real gravity of what is happening.
In order to respond suitably to emerging problems, he based his judgments, like other jurists, on the explicit meanings of primary texts (the Qur'an and sunnah).
Al-Ḥalabī's major work, however, was the Multaqa al-abḥur (1517), a handbook of Ḥanafī jurisprudence based on the works of four earlier jurists.
Padela and Mohiuddin circumvent the difficulty of correctly prognosticating in DOC by asserting that "dominant probability (ghalabat al-ẓann) [in contrast to certainty without doubt (yaqīn)] is acceptable" (9) based on the predominant view of Islamic jurists.
That September, the U.N. Human Rights Council issued a report, based on an inquiry led by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, that accused Israel of a series of possible war crimes.
Ghazzālī, an orthodox jurist and a major exponent of faith based theology (Ash'arite) having studied philosophy, thought discursive reasoning stood on a solid ground but soon turned against philosophy, offering a devastating critique of reason in his The Incoherence of Philosophers (Tahāfut al-falāsifah).
After I linked in an earlier post to the analyses of legal scholars who had opined that the Senate isn't authorized to deny the duly appointed Roland Burris membership in its club, several other preeminent jurists came forth with a different conclusion based on reasoning that the first group had apparently overlooked.
