If it had been accepted, a quite unnecessary chasm between analytical jurists and socio-legal scholars might have been bridged.
Few would argue that there were some jurists who were willing to please their rulers.
We nonetheless want to point out that no serious jurist has made consensus on verdicts the hallmark of the judicial process.
Disagreement among well-informed jurists over relatively simple cases is the norm, not the exception.
The chapter headings would lead us to believe that we will get splendid treatment of the use of theology by jurists.
It was from this class that the earliest jurists emerged.
I do not see how one can convincingly argue for such a general view without going beyond the jurist-friendly arenas of private-law and criminal-law duties.
There are 249 marginal citations of scripture, in contrast to 55 to jurists.
