jurist
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Over the past seven years, Judge Rudofsky has earned a reputation as a cerebral jurist willing to reconsider legal disputes from an originalist perspective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Turk, an Austrian jurist, has served as high commissioner since October 2022.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
As an 18th century English jurist wrote, “… the husband and wife are one person in law” — and that one was the husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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