To impose the laws retroactively, the jurists maintained, would be to repeat the sins of the Nazis, who had rewritten the legal code whenever it suited them.
Most jurists have maintained that militant jihad is not an individual's personal commitment, but rather a collective political obligation which can only be pursued when there is a genuine threat to Islam and when it's likely that the threat can be effectively countered.
The tribunals' first prosecutor, the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, maintains that the same protections should have been extended to war reporters from the start.
C. 1460 Aleppo, Syria 1549 Al-Ḥalabī, byname of Burhān Ad-dīn Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm (born c. 1460, Ḥalab, Mamlūk Sultanate [now Aleppo, Syria] died 1549) jurist who maintained the traditions of Islāmic jurisprudence in the 16th century.
The Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583 1645) maintained in De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace) that war is justifiable only if a country faces imminent danger and the use of force is both necessary and proportionate to the threat.
Canadian statesman and jurist who, as Liberal prime minister in 1948 57, helped to maintain Canadian unity and to bring about reforms.
I prefer to maintain, reiterating from above in this post, that Mr. Trump is delusional when he spews out that a jurist's heritage, without more, disqualifies a sitting judge.
"What we try to do is maintain the feeling that this is a grass-roots, user-friendly festival anybody can go to," said Al Nigrin, 51, executive director and curator of the event as well as a jurist.
Judge Reinhardt, generally considered to be one of the nation's most liberal jurists, concluded that the text and history of the Second Amendment and judicial decisions interpreting it all supported the view that the amendment protects only "the right of the people to maintain effective militias".
