jurists

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As I’ve written in the past, Rakoff is one of our most percipient jurists about the impact of new technologies on the law.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

In the late Middle Ages, Christian theologians and jurists began to advance more humane views regarding the treatment of captured enemy combatants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Their pushback has sparked a new debate over just how bluntly sitting jurists should condemn the high court—and what purpose their protests are meant to serve.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

A fictionalized movie about the trial of 16 German jurists and lawyers who served the Nazis, it drove home the criticism of ends-oriented judging.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2025

Whatever we might have been—healers or politicians, jurists or builders—was trained out of us, spun up and away into the funnel of darkness that is Blackcliff.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir