Meanings
- uncommonuncountableThe killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice.
Watson argues that: 'the law cannot be extinguished, the potential for a juridicide looms if Aboriginal laws continue to be ignored […] (Watson, 2022)
2024 March 11, Kelly J. Stockdale, Michelle Addison, Marginalised Voices in Criminology, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 19472 more examples
[…] enabling a type of juridicide that exempts those responsible for the torture perpetrated in the CIA's secret prisons from open and transparent processes of juridical accountability.
2015 October 14, Cristyn Davies, Sara L. Knox, Cultural Studies of Law, Routledge, →ISBN, page 86[This effort to kill off rival narratives of (in)justice, what Robert Cover once called juridicide, involved prosecutors, police, elected politicians at all levels, and the mass media in both the United States and the Philippines.]
2020 April 21, Michael W. McCann, George I. Lovell, Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 304
Origin
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juridicide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/juridicide
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