Sentence examples for judicial evolution from inspiring English sources
Since the rise of IS last summer, when it captured large stretches of territory in Iraq and Syria, Islamic scholars have consistently poked holes in the group's hardline interpretation of scripture, which they say elides centuries of theological and judicial evolution and is often misleadingly incorrect.
State judges and leaders of the organized bar have expressed alarm at the recent evolution of judicial campaigns, which both in cost and rhetoric have come to mirror campaigns for other offices.
Evolution is preferable to judicial fiat.
In the reaction to Dred Scott, the divisive 1857 decision to deny citizenship rights to black people, Friedman sees an "evolution in the nation's commitment to judicial review," because the ruling was not met with defiance.
Against this contextual backdrop, four major mechanisms have been used internationally to effect change: judicial decisions; prosecutorial charging guidelines; new or revised laws; and evolution of practice without legal change.
The decisive judicial ruling establishing the unconstitutionality of laws banning the teaching of evolution came in the following year, in the Supreme Court's decision in Epperson v. Arkansas (393 U.S. 97 [1968]), which invalidated the Arkansas antievolution law.
In this paper, I examine the institutional determinants of the quality of law developed by a legal regime, drawing on a model from Hadfield which identifies five key parameters that influence legal evolution [Hadfield, G.K., 2007a. The quality of law: Judicial incentives, legal human capital and the evolution of law. Manuscript. Available at http://works.bepress.com/ghadfield].
That solidarity in March is bittersweet now, as we experience the judicial whiplash of yesterday's voting rights devolution and today's marriage equality evolution.
There is judicial relief.
Compare judicial activism.
