Sentence examples for jurists term from inspiring English sources

Enhancing the jurisdiction of treaty-monitoring bodies such as the U.N. Human Rights Committee will help states to understand their obligations with regard to internal groups that jurists term "peoples," who are therefore qualified for self-determination.

Back in the nineteen-seventies, Lord Hailsham, an eminent British jurist, popularized a term for this type of behavior: elective dictatorship.

There is an obvious answer: Appoint jurists for a set term in office, perhaps ten years.

The jurists commonly use the terms de facto and de iure, e.g., they say that a king can do de facto anything that is not in accord with ordained law.

Fixed terms for jurists would both preserve independence and impose accountability, while encouraging presidents and legislators to work together to fill vacancies.

Her immediate plan is to research the concept of "states of exception" – the term coined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt to justify dictators who bypass national laws in the name of the public good.

It is probably a mistake therefore to insist on any definition of private property that implies a proprietor has absolute control over his resource.[2] Some jurists have even argued that the terms 'property' and 'ownership' should be eliminated from the technical discourse of the law (see Grey 1980).

Politicians should use the term "genocide" only when historians and jurists have determined, based on evidence and analysis, that a genocide — a specific crime defined according to narrow factual and legal criteria — has indeed occurred.

Dow is currently serving her second term as commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.

Thus, the German jurist and political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim coined the term "futurology" during his exile in the USA in 1943 i.e. 3 years before the first American think tank for futures research (SRI) was founded.

As President Bush finished his second term in 2008, an inquiry by the International Commission of Jurists found that the CIA's mobilization of allied security agencies worldwide had done serious damage to the international rule of law.