Brazil would have six months to respond to the petition, with the committee, comprised of 18 international jurists, set to take up to a further six months to reach a decision.
A deeply sensitive man and a learned, courageous jurist, he set himself against the dominance exercised over the court by Chief Justice John Marshall.
If parliament approves the bill, it would require ratification by the Guardian Council of Islamic jurists, setting up a showdown with conservative forces who have opposed any softening of one of the harshest death penalty laws in the world.
There is an obvious answer: Appoint jurists for a set term in office, perhaps ten years.
The decision by Mr. Almunia, a Spanish jurist who has set a pattern of compromise since becoming Europe's top antitrust officer in February 2010, followed a similar resolution in the United States.
Judge Pollack didn't set out his shingle to become a jurist: he had a thriving private practice when, in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him a United States district judge on the say-so of Robert F. Kennedy, on a recommendation from the bar association.
Justice Crocker Snyder, who set Mr. Winkler's bail at $1 million after he went to the Cayman Islands, is known as a tough jurist and may seek to run for election to succeed the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau.
At the time of our first encounter Peter was already poised to set up the Society of Labour Lawyers and the International Commission of Jurists (with its British branch, Justice).
A 1994 report from an International Commission of Jurists found that the Japanese military set up a vast network of Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Dutch and Filipino women to staff "comfort stations" — essentially brothels where they'd be forced to be sexually subservient to military men.
The "constitutional declaration" issued by the provisional president, Adli Mansour, establishes a committee of 10 jurists to propose constitutional amendments that will set the stage for a new round of elections.
