jurimetricsn.
/dʒʊərɪˈmɛtrɪks/ The use of scientific methods in the study of legal matters.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > use of scientific methods
jurimetrics1949
1949 L. Loevinger in Minnesota Law Rev. XXXIII. 483 The next step forward in the long path of man's progress must be from jurisprudence (which is mere speculation about law) to jurimetrics—which is the scientific investigation of legal problems.
1964 Jrnl. Politics 26 915 Professor Spaeth's view of what jurimetrics may hope to accomplish.
1966 Sci. Amer. Sept. 295 The fruit of the union of jurisprudence and social science has inevitably been christened ‘jurimetrics’.
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jurimeˈtrician n.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > using scientific methods
jurimetricist1966
jurimetrician1970
1970 Encycl. Sci. Suppl. (Grolier) 287 Polimetricians, psychometricians, jurimetricians are all rapidly proliferating species of a genus of mathematically minded scholars.
juriˈmetricist n. a student of, or expert in, jurimetrics.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > using scientific methods
jurimetricist1966
jurimetrician1970
1966 Sci. Amer. Sept. 296 Being, in this enterprise, jurimetricists and not legal historians, they chose the molds of analytic rather than historical jurisprudence for the ordering of their materials.
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