juristocracy
English
Noun
juristocracy (plural juristocracies)
- Rule or government by the judiciary or court system.
- 2012, Matthias Klatt, Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy, page 205:
- Does that not imply that a court charged with the application of rights assumes the role of a superlegislature, transforming liberal democracies into juristocracies?
- 2020 July 10, Key Dingake, “Reflections on Malawi's 2019 elections court decisions”, in Mmegi:
- The era of juristocracy carries with it certain obligations by the judiciary.