jurispathic

Adjective

jurispathic (comparative more jurispathic, superlative most jurispathic)

1. Destroying legal meaning or tradition.
   • 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.2005, Robert C. Post, “Who's Afraid of Jurispathic Courts?: Violence and Public Reason in Nomos and Narrative”, in Yale Journal of Law, volume 17, number 9, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025...
   • 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.2025, Duncan Hosie, “Resistance through Restraint: Liberal Cause Lawyering in an Age of Conservative Judicial Hegemony”, in Cornell Law Review (forthcoming), number 111

   Antonyms:

   jurisgenerative