Jurist Coalition for Human Rights (JCHR), Jerusalem

Specialist in law or Jurist in Ukraine and Russia.

Farideh Gheyrat, a jurist, argues that her arrest is illegal.

The change followed Ayatollah Khomeini s theory of the jurist ruler.

Nawaf Salam ( born 15 December 1953) is a Lebanese diplomat, academic, and jurist.

In Khomeini s view, the jurist ruler could modify religious laws, depending on his interpretation of the needs of the regime.

Josef (later Joseph) Kastein, really Julius Katzenstein (October 6, 1890, Bremen June 13, 1946, Haifa), was a German born writer and jurist.

Nicolae Timofti ( born 22 December 1948) is a Moldovan politician and jurist who has been President of Moldova since 23 March 2012.

Member jurist of the Regional Council for Public Savings and Financial Markets (CREPMF) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) since January 2003

A student of theology, Arabic literature and religious studies, Maulana became a teacher at 25, and later a renowned jurist, who gave sermons in Konya's mosques.

The 1979 revolution, which ended Iran s monarchical tradition, created a new political order based on Shiite theological foundations and giving absolute ruling power to a Shiite jurist cleric.

The division of human rights into three generations was initially proposed in 1979 by the Czech jurist Karel Vasak at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

In August 2004, Brazil elected Dr. Silvia Pimentel, a renowned jurist and feminist, as one of the experts to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

Instead of traditional homogeneous states, this Europe seeks to be a Community of Difference, a kind of People of Others, to borrow a phrase from the jurist Joseph Weiler.

Iran s current supreme ruler, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, whose religious degree was a focus of suspicion in the seminary and among the clerical elite, was not considered a jurist by merit.

The United Nations should put a stop to such practices by appointing without delay a new independent jurist to assist the Special Representative, the post having been vacant since 1999.

William Rufus Day (April 17, 1849 July 9, 1923) was an American diplomat and jurist, who served for nineteen years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The basic rights of the Saharan people had been recognized by the international community he called for the appointment of a new Independent Jurist for Western Sahara, a position which had been vacant since 1999.

In July 1992 the Congress of Deputies, noting that he was a jurist of recognized competence , elected him as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Spain, in which function he served until November 2001.

An independent election commission was created by law. And a respected Jordanian jurist who had been a judge at the International Court of Justice was reprimanded for dragging his feet in getting the election law passed.

As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (who was also the chief US prosecutor at Nuremburg) put it, the constitution is not a suicide pact a sentiment echoed by the Israeli jurist Aharon Barak, who emphasized that civil rights are not an altar for national destruction.

He has given official propagandists the green light to attack Ahmadinejad and his cronies explicitly, portraying them as people who do not believe in the principle of the guardianship of the Shia jurist, the key concept bequeathed by the Islamic Republic s founder, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

As is apparent from the curriculum vitae of Professor González Campos, the Spanish candidate is a jurist with an outstanding professional background that combines a brilliant teaching and research career in the field of international law with a distinguished record as a judge and adviser on international affairs.

As both the Security Council and the General Assembly have agreed on the candidate, the distinguished jurist Mr. Ronny Abraham has been elected as a member of the International Court of Justice for the remainder of the term of office of Judge Guillaume, that is, until 5 February 2009.

36. Decides to establish by 1 March 2008 a five member Internal Justice Council consisting of a staff representative, a management representative and two distinguished external jurists, one nominated by the staff and one by management, and chaired by a distinguished jurist chosen by consensus by the four other members

The modern view of the effect of armed conflict on treaties is that the question of whether treaties survive the outbreak of hostilities is resolved according to the type of treaty involved. The task of the modern jurist, therefore, has been to determine which types of treaties continue in force during and after armed conflict, which are suspended and which are abrogated.

The wording of the Martens Clause in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols supports the view that its purpose is to clarify that customary international humanitarian law applies during an armed conflict, guiding the jurist to look for this law in the dictates of public conscience , but what is the resultant effect on treaties codifying this public conscience?