academic lawyer

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandlawyer

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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lawyer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlɔɪ.ər/
us
/ˈlɔɪ.jɚ/
someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them ...
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(Definition ofacademicandlawyerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He is anacademiclawyer, a professor of law.
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I practised a good deal in insurance cases and it has been one of my subjects as anacademiclawyer.
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Theacademiclawyeris not dealing with the hard facts as they are presented at that particular moment.
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For such ideas we look to theacademiclawyer.
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The ex-civil servant would, presumably, be eligible by knowledge and experience of public affairs, and similarly the economist andacademiclawyerof whom he spoke.
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If not, at some time we are going to have a judge, or a barrister, or a solicitor, or someacademiclawyerleft out.
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The right sort of make-up would be anacademiclawyerand an academic chemist.
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As we all know, he is a first-classacademiclawyerwho has, perhaps, divided his time pretty equally between academic work and practising work.
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She is a distinguishedacademiclawyer, and her instincts probably lie in rather sounder areas.
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It could happen that the eminence of anacademiclawyerin a particular situation in a certain sphere of the law would mean that his presence would he required.
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Her background is as anacademiclawyer, specialising in the administration of justice and human rights, in particular the rights of women.
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Though a fineacademiclawyerand a pleasant and tactful advocate, he was not considered much of a politician.
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This well-researched study will appeal equally to academic lawyers, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and scholars of gender relations.
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No doubt it might be possible to recruit highly-qualified academic lawyers.
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The current membership consists of nine scientists and veterinary surgeons, two academic lawyers, one academic philosopher and four animal welfarists.
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We have some of the greatest and best academic lawyers in the world.
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He can, if he likes, have just one practising lawyer, and the rest may be academic lawyers.
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It included distinguished representatives from the police, the social services, academic lawyers and others.
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They are matters which law students learn about, which academic lawyers discuss and which textbook writers ventilate.
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It is not something only for debates on jurisprudence between academic lawyers.
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