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  2. Wirjono Prodjodikoro - Wikipedia

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    Born. ( 1903-06-15) 15 June 1903. Surakarta, Dutch East Indies. Died. April 1985 (aged 82) Citizenship. Indonesian. Wirjono Prodjodikoro (15 June 1903 – April 1985) was the head justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court from 1952 to 1966.

  3. Jurist - Wikipedia

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    Jurist. A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. [1] [2] This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in ...

  4. Legal realism - Wikipedia

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    Common good constitutionalism. Legal realism. Legal process. Legal formalism. v. t. e. Legal realism is a naturalistic approach to law; it is the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, that is, it should rely on empirical evidence. Hypotheses must be tested against observations of the world. [citation needed]

  5. Common law - Wikipedia

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    In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions. [2] [3] [4] The defining characteristic of common law is that it arises as precedent.

  6. Duduk - Wikipedia

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    Duduk. Melody performed with a duduk by SERGO.TEL. The duduk ( / duːˈduːk / doo-DOOK; Armenian: դուդուկ IPA: [duˈduk]) [1] or tsiranapogh ( Armenian: ծիրանափող, meaning "apricot-made wind instrument"), is a double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood originating from Armenia.

  7. Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Justice John M. Harlan II in his dissenting opinion in Poe v. Ullman (1961). The Due Process Clause has been used to strike down legislation. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for example do not prohibit governmental regulation for the public welfare. Instead, they only direct the process by which such regulation occurs. As the Court has held before, such due process "demands only that the ...

  8. Attorneys in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Attorneys in the United States. An attorney at law (or counsellor-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients. [1] As of January 1, 2023, there were 1,331,290 active lawyers in the United States. [2]

  9. Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual ...