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jurist

a student or graduate of law

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Nevertheless, one jurist seems, at first glance, to have been directly influenced by the Hanafis in his discussion of women as witnesses.

Debates on women's status as judges and witnesses in post-formative Islamic law

These arguments were relayed to the later Middle Ages, and endowed with an important new twist, by the prolific fourteenth-century jurist Bartolus of Saxoferrato (1314-1357).

Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*]

General criteria include design, comfort, safety, fuel economy, all-around performance, innovation and dollar value and lots of driving by the jurists,

CHRYSLER CIRRUS NAMED 1995 NORTH AMERICAN CAR OF THE YEAR

subset]]i jurists on this issue and compare and contrast their views with the verdicts of later authors.

FROM BIDA TO SUNNA: THE WILAYA OF ALI IN THE SHII ADHAN

The Fatimid jurist made it clear that Ibn Qutayba was considered an authority among linguists but not among jurists (p.

The Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification concerning the Refutation of Ibn Qutayba by Al-Qadi al-Nu'man b. Muhammad (d. 363/974)

He focuses on crucial stages in the development of the law, from a mysterious normative order that was a part of religious belief, to an abstract form of normative reasoning that is recognizable to the modern jurist of any tradition.

The Invention of Law in the West

Islamic legal thought; a compendium of Muslim jurists.

Islamic legal thought; a compendium of Muslim jurists

Ten years ago, the judiciary instituted the Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan, (1) an employment system meant to regularize hiring in which most circuit and district court jurists voluntarily participated.

Salvaging the 2013 Federal Law Clerk Hiring season

In a separate decree, Ayatollah Khamenei appointed Hojjatoleslam Mehdi Shabzendedar as the new jurist of the body, replacing recently deceased member of the council Ayatollah Gholamreza Rezvani.

Islamic Revolution Leader Appoints Members of Guardian Council

Meanwhile, another vice president and British jurist, Lord Baron Navnit Dholakia whose name was mentioned as a vice president in the ICJ website, told the Daily Mirror that he had no connection to the said letter and in fact he had disassociated himself from the Council sometime ago.

Pakistan CJ disowns letter over Lankan CJ removal

BEIRUT: Canadian jurist Norman Farrell will likely replace Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare, Al-Arabiya TV said Sunday.

Norman Farrell likely to replace STL Prosecutor Bellemare

Jurists do not reject the possibility that the Albanian PM Sali Berisha will fulfill the promise of the 90's - "that every Albanian in the world is a citizen of Albania.