jurisprudent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Understanding law

   Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.

   • 'Adieu!' he says, 'I am going to my tutor's lectures on one Puffendorf, a very jurisprudent author as you shall read on a summer's day.'
2. 2

   Pertaining to jurisprudence.

   • By this, I wanted to point out how subtle and conscientious our judgment of jurisprudent ideas should be, and what kind of historic approach we have to cherish towards them.
   • The jurisprudent psychology analysis is designed to ensure that the results of clinical and forensic interventions for each individual comport with the law's emphasis on principles of justice and fairness.
   • It is much more prudent and therefore also much more jurisprudent to endeavour to understand what really happens in law and legal theory.
3. 3

   Someone skilled in law or jurisprudence.

   • Nobody should imagine that the fitness of the jurisprudent for rule raises him to the status of prophecy or of Imams because our discussion here is not concerned with status and rank but with the actual task.
   • Both the official and the jurisprudent can make mistakes; they can go wrong.
   • According to Shaun McVeigh, the persona of the jurisprudent 'is presented in terms of dissent from the (major) jurisprudences of rationalist legal traditions and state authority.

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