As early as the third century AD, the Roman jurist Ulpian observed that not only did torture produce false confessions, but even when it "worked", it was institutionally corrupting.
The illustrious American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes famously observed over a century ago that the law was rarely determinate.
Shi'ite jurists maintain that qiyas is a specific type of ijtihad.
As Judge Richard Posner, a conservative appellate jurist from the 7th circuit observed, these laws are partisan moves to keep specific people - the very ones the VRA once protected -- from the polls.
The magnetic effect of a current had been observed earlier (1802) by an Italian jurist, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, but the announcement was published in an obscure newspaper.
The life of the law, it has been observed, is not logic but experience, and as personalities and experience vary, so will the conclusions at which jurists arrive.
His trial became something of a celebrity occasion; as The New York Times observed, on the first day, "many fashionably dressed women thronged the galleries of the courtroom" and the final day was attended by "many leaders of London society as well as by prominent jurists, politicians, and military and naval men".
Furthermore, the high rate we observed in our population could also be a reflection of our active information programme including patient information documents and workgroups comprising doctors, caregivers, and a jurist specialized in medical law which might have facilitated exchanges on the subject.
What better publicity could you have than to have a distinguished American jurist come to Kenya, observe your due process in action".
