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public law

NOUN
law affecting the public
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“It’s not a grand conspiracy orchestrated by the system,” said Benjamin Morel, a professor of public law at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Thomas Hooker, the 17th-century “father of Connecticut,” invoked the model of the biblical “Hebrew Republic” in Election Day sermons to the settlers of that church-state, whose separation of religion and public law would come later.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

Now, says Aileen McHarg, professor of public law and human rights at Durham University, "there is a perception that devolution is under attack".

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

Separately, 71 Australian university teachers of constitution law and other fields of public law signed an open letter published Friday that rebutted the argument that the Voice would be “risky.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

While a considerable portion of the principles, and even much of the phraseology, of Stoicism passed into the system of public law, the Roman philosophers had other more direct means of acting on the people.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole



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