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public law

NOUN
law affecting the public
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She began her career in the legal industry with an international public law background.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

The rollout will be staggered, and transparency will first apply to public law – care cases – then to private law, where parents are separating, and lastly to magistrates' courts.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024

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

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

He showed that such a declaration was inconsistent with no principle of public law, and forbidden by no prudential consideration.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel



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