Prashant Bhushan

With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the greatest judges and jurists of all time and also a fine human beings. He used his extraordinary juristic and intellectual gifts to help everyone he could and to address all forms of human suffering.

Indian Lawyer

John McCain

We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal!

American Politician

Ron Crumpton

A jurist can obey the letter of the law and violate its spirit, or it can follow the spirit of the law and violate the letter of the law. I want someone who can reconcile the letter and the spirit of the law without partisan leanings.

Eliot Spitzer

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

American Lawyer

Sandra Day O'Connor

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

American Judge

Cindy Hyde-Smith

I believe Judge Kavanaugh is a well-qualified conservative jurist, and I commend President Trump for his commitment to naming Supreme Court justices who are committed to the rule of law.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

English Historian

Noam Chomsky

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

American Activist

Frederick Soddy

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

English Scientist

Timothy Noah

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

American Journalist

Refers to someone whose knowledge of law is deep, often related to legal professionals or academics.

Professional Expertise

Being called a jurist generally carries an implication of respect and recognition within the legal field.

Cultural Prestige

The term is commonly used in universities and scholarly articles; less so in everyday conversation.

Academic Context

Jurists explore the deeper 'why' and 'how' questions about laws and legal systems.

Philosophical Leanings

Jurists often focus on the theoretical rather than the practical application of law in daily life.

Beyond Practice

Jurists might intersect with other disciplines, such as philosophy, economics, or political science.

Interdisciplinary Interest

 jurists, and mathematicians. The viceroy of New Spain had invited them to test the young woman’s knowledge by posing the most difficult questions they could muster. But Juana successfully answered every challenge, from complicated equations to philosophical queries. Observers would later liken the scene

History's "worst" nun -...

 by the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria. Cesare As punishments become more cruel, the minds of men, which like fluids always adjust to the level of the objects that surround them, become hardened, and after a hundred years of cruel punishments, breaking on the wheel causes no more fear

Steven Pinker and...

 enforcing laws for example I I think as I as I read history and try to understand how does it all work the fact that it is as as people have said possible for someone to love the law and you know senior jurists or are like that the fact that it's possible for to love