Sentence examples for jurisprudence under from inspiring English sources

In Pakistan in the 1980s, Krekar studied Islamic jurisprudence under the Palestinian ideologue Abdullah Azzam, the founder of al-Qaida and mentor of Osama bin Laden.

All they found was an old provision making rape a capital offense; it predated the court's modern death penalty jurisprudence, under which the death penalty for the rape of an adult woman was ruled unconstitutional in 1977.

Although it was perhaps the strongest single constitutional check on state legislation during our early years as a Nation, the Contract Clause receded into comparative desuetude with the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and particularly with the development of the large body of jurisprudence under the Due Process Clause of that Amendment in modern constitutional history.

Indeed, in a society that has long maintained a judicial practice that it is better to allow a guilty man to walk free than subject an innocent man to punishment, the NFL's iconoclastic jurisprudence under Goodell seems to invert this important presumption of innocence.

It is well known that the courts of chancery in England were formerly entirely in the hands of ecclesiastics, who took advantage of the strict forms of the common law, to introduce a foreign mode of jurisprudence under the specious name of Equity.

He traced the history of the jurisprudence under the Equal Protection Clause, and concluded that it protected all, not merely African Americans or only minorities.

In the 1920s, American jurisprudence came under the influence of another version of the critical view of ideology and law.

His decision to join the liberal wing of the court, she wrote, amounts to a "twist ending so egregious it threatens to become the hallmark of his tenure as Chief Justice, overshadowing all the good and decent jurisprudence accumulated under his name since his appointment".

An in fact it would be a new law under our preclearance jurisprudence, wouldn't it?

Pettit rejects this view on the basis of observations about schemes of majority voting that were first, under the label "doctrinal paradox," noted in jurisprudence, then generalized under the label of the "discursive dilemma" and became the starting point for the 'theory of judgment aggregation' (cf. Kornhauser 1992; Pettit 2003; List 2012).

The earliest Welsh law texts, though they date from the 13th century onward, attribute the original codification of law to Hywel Dda; and it is possible that a significant development in Welsh jurisprudence took place under the aegis of that ruler.