English for Law Students

1) jurisprudence

2) principle

3) jurist

4) law

5) natural law

6) civil law

7) law of nations

8) theory

9) policy

10) goal

a) the theory or philosophy of law

b) a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning

c) body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct

d) the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs

e) international law

f) an expert in or writer on law

g) the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties

h) a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained

i) the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result

j) a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual