Word: juristic
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Mahmoud Hassan Pasha was the proud Moslem. Egypt's jurist-diplomat wore gaudy ties, played with his microphone, ignored his advisers, spoke plainly and at length, thumped the table to emphasize points, reminded his listeners again & again that he had served in his country's high courts...
...Bertrand Russell, who was first appointed to C.C.N.Y., then dismissed (on grounds that he was not of "moral character"). Cohen's essay on this "scandalous denial of justice" reflects both his intense enthusiasms and his considerable legal abilities. Though a layman, he has influenced Frankfurter and many another jurist. In his writings, he is as unsparing of friends like Holmes, Brandeis and Einstein as he is of his enemies...
...Minister of Economics and Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, who had been highly indignant at being identified with the other criminals: "My son-in-law is a jurist, but not a lawyer. I would like to talk...
...more than a suspicion that this idea [of immunity] is a relic of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. ... We do not accept the paradox that legal responsibility should be the least where power is the greatest." Jackson fell back on Britain's 17th Century jurist, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and his declaration to King James I that a king is "under...
Died. Johannes Maarten de Moor, 49, beetle-browed Dutch jurist and maritime authority, Netherlands delegate to the United Nations War Crimes Conference; on the eve of the conference's convocation; of blood poisoning; in London...