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jurisprudence

[joor-is-prood-ns, joor-is-prood-] / ˌdʒʊər ɪsˈprud ns, ˈdʒʊər ɪsˌprud- /


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But you’re saying that the jurisprudence itself, the technologies, the sanitization of execution, every part of how we practice capital punishment has gone in the opposite direction.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

That is because, even as he ignored precedent’s binding force, he paid homage to its jurisprudence.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Whether it chooses to do so will reveal as much about our immigration politics as this opinion reveals about our jurisprudence.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Sotomayor has long been an advocate for criminal defendants in her jurisprudence, and for her part, Jackson’s thesis in undergrad even covered coercive plea bargaining.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

An influential nineteenth-century manual on medical jurisprudence cited the saying “A medical man, when he sees a dead body, should notice everything.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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