The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and…

— Felix Frankfurter

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

— Lawrence Lessig

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first…

— Edmund Burke

“His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and…

— Michel Foucault

“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own…

— Ashim Shanker

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its…

— Herbert Read

“[Justice] Murphy... who ruled against the state [anti-sodomy] law... didn't see why the Supreme Court had to dwell on the historical background of sodomy…

— Dale Carpenter

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which…

— Victoria Woodhull

The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist:…

— Joaquin Fuster

By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties,…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of a totalitarian…

— Dale Carpenter

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

— Baron de Montesquieu

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

— Horace Mann

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has…

— Orestes Brownson