What do you call a person who studies law?

What do you call a person who studies law?

A jurist or jurisconsult (from Medieval Latin) is an expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence. The work of the jurist is the study, analysis and arrangement of the law—work which can be done wholly in the seclusion of the library.

What is the word for the study of law?

Try jurisprudence, the study and philosophy of law. You can modify it to show a specific type of law, so you will find terms such as medical, human rights, Islamic or American jurisprudence. Sometimes the word is used as a collective to mean the legal world.

What do you call someone who studies all the time?

Somebody who studies too hard or all the time: BOOKWORM. 692. NR. 90.