July 31 , 1763Fredericksburgh, New York December 12, 1847 New York City, New York James Kent, (born July 31 , 1763 Fredericksburgh, Putnam County, N.Y. died Dec. 12, 1847, New York City), jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries.
If she is confirmed as expected, Ms. Kagan, 50, a former dean of Harvard Law School and the nation's first female solicitor general, would be the court's youngest justice, putting her in a position to influence American jurisprudence for decades to come.
This emerging European consensus on same-sex unions is likely to influence the future jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.
Given his legal and political conservatism, Rehnquist was a logical choice for Nixon, who wished to use the appointment as a way of curtailing the perceived influence of liberal jurisprudence on social policy.
Numerous institutions and concepts of canon law have influenced the secular law and jurisprudence in lands influenced by Protestantism: e.g., marriage law, the law of obligations, the doctrine of modes of property acquisition, possession, wills, legal persons, the law of criminal procedure, and the law concerning proof or evidence.
He's had some influence in the religion jurisprudence.
Among the areas in which he exercised lasting influence are hermeneutics, poetics, jurisprudence, and (arguably) historiography.
A man of broad interests, Thayer became a major influence on Hand's jurisprudence.
Both involve dioceses and dozens of churches in large states, where jurisprudence can influence how judges in other states approach property cases, according to Brister.
In a 1990 Yale Law Journal article, "The Constitutional Catechism of Antonin Scalia, George Kannarr, a scholar at the University of Buffalo law school, argues that Scalia's Catholic upbringing and his exposure to his father's exegetical passions profoundly influenced his approach to jurisprudence.
