"Recently, there have been various developments governing freedom of speech that are directed towards the encouragement of greater flexibility," said Eady. "To a large extent, this has been under the influence of the Human Rights Act and, along with it, Strasbourg jurisprudence.
Hard though it may be to say it, our constitutional jurisprudence at present places Americans under arbitrary government power in "wide areas of life".
The term "blood money" sounds dramatic, but it just means a financial penalty paid to the victim — in Islamic jurisprudence, it's called diyat.
Something to consider: If we are NOT the "most evil" country in the world--i.e., the country with the greatest number of evil people residing in it--then we're doing something terribly wrong when it comes to jurisprudence, because we have the greatest number (1.6 million) of incarcerated people.
It is a jurisprudence built in the dark.
And look at all the jurisprudence it has already produced".
As in many aspects of jurisprudence, it often depends on whose ox is being gored.
This is not quite the standard of "heightened scrutiny" that some were hoping for, but in terms of gay-rights jurisprudence it is new and important.
In fiqh (Islāmic jurisprudence), it is considered blameworthy to prevent those who desire to do so from practicing tahajjud as much as they wish.
While Ayatollah Saanei does not endorse secular feminism or much for women outside Islamic jurisprudence, it is his and similar views that have kept reforms alive.
