legal philosophy

1. 1.

   the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

   Synonymsjurisprudencelaw

   Broaderphilosophy

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Questions about legal philosophy

What does legal philosophy mean?

legal philosophy means "the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do".

What is another word for legal philosophy?

Close synonyms include jurisprudence, law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal philosophy a common word?

legal philosophy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.