Egypt's new constitution enshrines not only sharia, but the jurisprudence of Sunni Islam as defined by its leading scholars.
But our jurisprudence has also always recognized that lay jurors bring their common knowledge and experience to the deliberation room.
This is a familiar complaint about Dworkin's theory, but naturalized jurisprudence gives it a principled foundation.
"If the organization could, we would dismiss you if you did it the first time, but the jurisprudence will not support that," he said.
Anthony Kennedy was appointed by a Republican president, of course, but his jurisprudence is about as libertarian as we've had on the Court since before the New Deal.
But his careful jurisprudence stirs less enthusiasm among liberal activists.
His argument clinches the case not for a progressive jurisprudence but for a more engaged politics of economic justice.
But he's a great family man and right on conservative issues (even those irrelevant to Mississippi jurisprudence but good for TV ads).
"He wants to see himself as a fighter and part of a collective struggle, but in U.S. jurisprudence it's about the individual," said Temma Kaplan, a Rutgers University historian who has written about Chile.
Natural law is a noble tradition that has shaped Western jurisprudence, but in the hands of conservative activists like Santorum it has become a dangerous cult of first principles.
