earned a reputation as one of the most learned jurists in the federal courts
Recent Examples on the WebFirsts are nothing new for the 54-year-old jurist, who was both the first Black judge in central Illinois’ 6th Judicial Circuit and the state’s 4th District Appellate Court in Springfield. Clare Spaulding, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022 Another jurist, retired state appeals judge Lynne A. Battaglia, on Friday rejected the state’s congressional map, approved by the Democratic-majority General Assembly, as unconstitutional. Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2022 Two decades earlier, Frankfurter’s friend, the jurist Learned Hand, had attacked Brown v. Board as indistinguishable from Lochner. John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022 His dissents from progressive constitutional victories of the mid-20th century began to mark him as a jurist from a bygone age, one still feverishly waging the wars of yesteryear. Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022 Islamic scholars, for instance, took a more liberal stance in premodern times, said UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, an Islamic jurist who holds a doctorate in Islamic law from Princeton University. Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN, 17 July 2022 The original draft also quoted Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century English jurist who wrote extensively about the law and whose work has been incredibly damaging to women and people for centuries. Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 27 June 2022 The dirty deed was finally done by Solicitor General Robert Bork, later to become a leading right-wing jurist and failed Supreme Court nominee. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 23 June 2022 Brown Jackson is an experienced jurist with eight years on the federal district court in D.C. before her elevation in June. Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle French juriste, from Medieval Latin jurista, from Latin jur-, jus