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jurispathic

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Destroying legal meaning or tradition.

Examples

This is the context within which Nomos and Narrative constructs its famous image of jurispathic courts: "Judges are people of violence," Cover writes, and "because of the violence they command, judges characteristically do not create law, but kill it.”
Drawing from a rich tradition of strategic forbearance, the Article identifies five key principles underlying this theory: […] and (5) avoiding the jurispathic power of paradigmatic adjudications that can kill competing constitutional visions.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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