Sentence examples for her jurisprudence from inspiring English sources
Sotomayor's concurring opinion in Lin v. United States Department of Justice (2007) may epitomize her jurisprudence.
Her jurisprudence, up to her Supreme Court début, had been fairly liberal, but her methods varied: strict textualism, allusions to international law, nods to the legislative record.
But these reversals of her jurisprudence were entirely predictable results of her decision to time her resignation so that George W. Bush could replace her.
In her 15 years as chief, Judith Kaye has excelled at both, earning national praise for her jurisprudence and as a court reformer.
Sotomayor's opinion united two sometimes conflicting strands of her jurisprudence — an aversion to going beyond the issues at hand and a concern about the effects of laws on people — citing dry procedural principles to reach a compassionate conclusion.
Judge Sotomayor sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, which rarely hears terrorism-related litigation, and so there is little in her jurisprudence to indicate her views.
Sotomayor's deference to institutions is evident in some of her business jurisprudence.
She earned her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, her J.D. magna cum laude with a certificate in intellectual property and cyberlaw from the University of San Francisco, and her B.A. summa cum laudefrom the University of California, Los Angeles.
She's been sainted by the Episcopal Church, had a residential college named after her at Yale, where she was the first African-American to earn a doctorate of jurisprudence, and had her childhood home designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior.
How does Nussbaum apply her equality principle to Supreme Court jurisprudence?
She's also — readers can decide if it's coincidental — his hero: the justice, he argues, who through her pragmatic, seat-of-the-pants jurisprudence single-handedly kept the court close to the American mainstream, particularly on matters like reproductive freedom and affirmative action.
