Meaning of juridicide | Babel Free

Definitions

The killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice.

uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“[…] enabling a type of juridicide that exempts those responsible for the torture perpetrated in the CIA's secret prisons from open and transparent processes of juridical accountability.”

“[This effort to kill off rival narratives of (in)justice, what Robert Cover once called juridicide, involved prosecutors, police, elected politicians at all levels, and the mass media in both the United States and the Philippines.]”

“Watson argues that: 'the law cannot be extinguished, the potential for a juridicide looms if Aboriginal laws continue to be ignored […] (Watson, 2022)”

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