The following lists are of prominent

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

s, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.

Premodern

* Ur-Nammu * Hammurabi *

Solomon Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...

* Ancient India **

Manu Manu may refer to: Geography *Manú Province, a province of Peru, in the Madre de Dios Region ** Manú National Park, Peru **Manú River, in southeastern Peru * Manu River (Tripura), which originates in India and flows into Bangladesh *Manu Temp ...

** Chanakya * Ancient Greece: **

Draco Draco is the Latin word for serpent or dragon. Draco or Drako may also refer to: People * Draco (lawgiver) (from Greek: Δράκων; 7th century BC), the first lawgiver of ancient Athens, Greece, from whom the term ''draconian'' is derived * D ...

Lycurgus Lycurgus or Lykourgos () may refer to: People * Lycurgus (king of Sparta) (third century BC) * Lycurgus (lawgiver) (eighth century BC), creator of constitution of Sparta * Lycurgus of Athens (fourth century BC), one of the 'ten notable orators' ...

** Solon * Ancient Rome **

Numa Pompilius Numa Pompilius (; 753–672 BC; reigned 715–672 BC) was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus after a one-year interregnum. He was of Sabine origin, and many of Rome's most important religious and political institutions are a ...

Gaius Terentilius Harsa Gaius Terentilius Harsa or Caius Terentilius Arsa was a Tribune of the Plebs of the Roman Republic in 467 BC. Treason Thinking that the absence of the consuls afforded a good opportunity for tribunitian agitation, he spent several days in haran ...

** Marcus Tullius Cicero **

Gaius Gaius, sometimes spelled ''Gajus'', Kaius, Cajus, Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen). People *Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist *Gaius Acilius *Gaius Antonius *Gaius Antonius Hybrida *Gaius Asinius Gallus *Gaius Asinius Pol ...

** Herennius Modestinus **

Aemilius Papinianus Aemilius Papinianus (; grc, Αἰμίλιος Παπινιανός; 142 CE–212 CE), simply rendered as Papinian () in English, was a celebrated Roman jurist, ''magister libellorum'', attorney general (''advocatus fisci'') and, after the dea ...

** Paulus **

Domitius Ulpianus Ulpian (; la, Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpianus; c. 170223? 228?) was a Roman jurist born in Tyre. He was considered one of the great legal authorities of his time and was one of the five jurists upon whom decisions were to be based according to ...

* Byzantine Empire **

Enantiophanes Enantiophanes was a Byzantine jurist whose exact identity is uncertain. The period when the jurist lived who bears this name has also been a subject of much dispute among scholars. Identity John Thomas Graves, writing in 1870, states the followi ...

** Tribonian *

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

ic ** Muhammad **

Abu Hanifa Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān ( ar, نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان; –767), commonly known by his '' kunya'' Abū Ḥanīfa ( ar, أبو حنيفة), or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Mus ...

** Malik ibn Anas ** Al-Shafi‘i ** Ahmad ibn Hanbal ** Al-Ghazali **

Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Taymiyyah (January 22, 1263 – September 26, 1328; ar, ابن تيمية), birth name Taqī ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Numayrī al-Ḥarrānī ( ar, تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم � ...

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...

Medieval Roman Law Medieval Roman law is the continuation and development of ancient Roman law that developed in the European Late Middle Ages. Based on the ancient text of Roman law, ''Corpus iuris civilis'', it added many new concepts, and formed the basis of the la ...

** Azo of Bologna ** Irnerius **

Accursius __NOTOC__ Accursius (in Italian ''Accursio'' or ''Accorso di Bagnolo''; c. 11821263) was a Roman jurist. He is notable for his organization of the glosses, the medieval comments on Justinian's codification of Roman law, the ''Corpus Juris Civili ...

Cino da Pistoia Cino da Pistoia (1270 – 1336/37) was an Italian jurist and poet. He was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. His full name was ''Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi'' or, Latinised, ''Cinus de Sighibuldis''. His father was a noble man from the House of Sinibald ...

** Bartolus de Saxoferrato ** Baldus de Ubaldis **

Matteo D'Afflitto Matteo D'Afflitto ( 1447 – 1523), also referred to as Matthaeus de Afflictis, was a Naples, Neapolitan jurist descending from the princely family D'Afflitto, d’Afflitto. The son of a nobleman, he studied the Humaniora and law at the University ...

* Canon law ** John Gascoigne ** Johann Georg Reiffenstuel *Post-medieval ** Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre ** Gerhard Diephuis **

Belchior Febos Belchior Febos, also called Phoebus (died 1632) was one of the leading Portuguese jurists of his time. In the early 17th century, Febos practiced law before Portugal's supreme civil and administrative courts, the ''Casa da Suplicação'' and the '' ...

** Ramón Llàtzer de Dou de Bassols **

Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij (russian: Иван Яковлевич Фойницкий) (1847–1913) was a leading theorist of criminal law in the late Russian Empire. In 1877, Fojnickij was appointed senior public prosecutor in Saint Petersburg. He ...

Modern jurists by country

Argentina

* Luis Moreno Ocampo *

Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek ' Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese. The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of noble status. Similar der ...

Australia

* Sir

Edmund Barton Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton, (18 January 18497 January 1920) was an Australian politician and judge who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903, holding office as the leader of the Protectionist Party. He resigned to ...

(judge) * Sir Garfield Barwick (judge) * Sir Gerard Brennan (judge) * Julian Burnside (Queen's Counsel) * Sir William Deane (judge, Governor-General) * Sir

Owen Dixon Sir Owen Dixon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1972) was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. A judge of the High Court for thirty-five years, Dixon was one of the leading jurists in the English-s ...

(judge) * Dr H.V. Evatt (judge, politician) * Robert French (judge) *

Mary Gaudron Mary Genevieve Gaudron (born 5 January 1943), is an Australian lawyer and judge, who was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. She was the Solicitor-General of New South Wales from 1981 until 1987 before her appointment to ...

(judge) * Sir Harry Gibbs (judge) * Murray Gleeson (judge) * Sir Samuel Griffith (judge) *

H.B. Higgins Henry Bournes Higgins KC (30 June 1851 – 13 January 1929) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge. He served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 until his death in 1929, after briefly serving as Attorney-General of Australia in ...

(judge) * Sir Isaac Isaacs (judge, Governor-General) *

David Ipp David Andrew Ipp (1938 – 8 October 2020) was a South African-born Australian lawyer, judge and Commissioner of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption between 2009 and 2014. Ipp was a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Cou ...

(judge) * Michael Kirby (judge) * Sir Adrian Knox (judge) * Sir Anthony Mason (judge) * Lionel Murphy (judge) * Richard O'Connor (judge) * Geoffrey Robertson (Queen's Counsel) * Sir

Ninian Stephen Sir Ninian Martin Stephen (15 June 1923 – 29 October 2017) was an Australian judge who served as the 20th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1982 to 1989. He was previously a justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 198 ...

(judge) * Julius Stone * Sir

Ronald Wilson Sir Ronald Darling Wilson, (23 August 192215 July 2005) was a distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist serving on the High Court of Australia between 1979 and 1989 and as the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportun ...

(judge)

Austria

Ludwig Adamovich Sr. Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig Ahgren, or simply Ludwig, American YouTube live streamer and c ...

, former president of the

Austrian Constitutional Court The Constitutional Court (german: Verfassungsgerichtshof or ) in Austria is the tribunal responsible for judicial review. It verifies the constitutionality of statutes, the legality of ordinances and other secondary legislation, and the consti ...

Ludwig Adamovich Jr. Ludwig Karl Adamovich (born 24 August 1932, in Innsbruck), commonly known as Ludwig Adamovich Jr., is an Austrian constitutional scholar, civil servant, and educator. From 1956 to 1984, Adamovich worked for the Constitutional Service of the Austri ...

, former president of the

* Walter Antoniolli, former president of the

* Eugen Ehrlich, legal sociologist * Hans Kelsen, Constitutional theorist, draftsman of the

Austrian constitution The Constitution of Austria (german: Österreichische Bundesverfassung) is the body of all constitutional law of the Republic of Austria on the federal level. It is split up over many different acts. Its centerpiece is the Federal Constitutional L ...

and creator of the Pure Theory of Law *

Karl Korinek Karl Korinek (7 December 1940 – 9 March 2017) was an Austrian constitutional scholar and educator. Korinek taught law at the University of Graz, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the University of Vienna, and the University for Co ...

, former president of the

* Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the

Austrian Civil Code Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...

of 1811

Bangladesh

A. K. Fazlul Huq Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq ( bn, আবুল কাশেম ফজলুল হক, ur, ; 26October 1873 — 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla (''Lion of Bengal''), was a British Indian and Pakistani lawyer and writer who present ...

* Radhabinod Pal *

Syed Mahbub Murshed Syed Mahbub Murshed (11 February 1911 – 3 April 1979) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and jurist. He served as the Chief Justice of East Pakistan High Court during 1964–1967. Early life and education Murshed was born to his parents Syed Abdus Salek ...

* Justice Mustafa Kamal *

Azizul Haque Azizul Haque, ( ar , عزيز الحق ) meaning "strong in the truth", is a male Muslim given name. Notable bearers of the name include: *Qazi Azizul Haque (1872–1935), also Khan Bahadur Qazi Azizul Huq, Quazi Syed Azizul Haque, police officer a ...

* Kamal Hossain *

Khatun Sapnara Khatun Sapnara ( bn, খাতুন সাপনারা; born 29 April 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British judge. In 2006, she was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court, becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial ...

Brazil

Pimenta Bueno Pimenta Bueno is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Its population was 36,881 (2020) and its area is 6,241 km². The municipality contained the Rio Roosevelt State Forest, created in 1990 and cancelled in 2010.* The cit ...

Eusébio de Queirós Eusébio de Queirós Coutinho Matoso da Câmara (Luanda, 1812 – Rio de Janeiro, May 7, 1868) was a Brazilian magistrate and politician, Minister of Justice (1848–1852) and author of one of the most important laws of the Empire of Brazil, the Eu ...

Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos (5 November 1815, in Valença, Bahia – 29 December 1877, in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's thir ...

Cândido Mendes de Almeida Cândido Mendes de Almeida (14 October 18181 March 1881) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist and politician. He was representative and senator of the Empire of Brazil (1871–1881). He was decorated with the Order of St. Gregory the Great and the ...

Viscount of Rio Branco A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...

Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro ( 12 September 1839 — 13 November 1920) was a Brazilian physician, teacher, linguist and educator. His main work is ''Serões gramaticais,'' a grammarbook of the Portuguese language. Biography Carneiro Ribeiro ...

* Rui Barbosa *

Clóvis Beviláqua Clóvis Beviláqua (4 October 1859 – 26 July 1944) was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará, Ceará, in 1859. Beviláqua was professor of civil and comparative law in Recife. As the author of the Brazilian Civi ...

* Baron of Rio Branco *

Joaquim Nabuco Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo (August 19, 1849 – January 17, 1910) was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country. Early life and education Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son ...

Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (5 November 1893 – Rio de Janeiro, 30 November 1991) was a Brazilian lawyer known for his human rights activism and devout Catholicism. He strongly opposed dictator Getúlio Vargas and worked against Brazil's la ...

* Hermes Lima *

San Tiago Dantas Francisco Clementino San Tiago Dantas (August 30, 1911 – September 6, 1964) was a journalist, lawyer, teacher and congressman, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the presidency of João Goulart. He is considered one of the forer ...

Evandro Lins e Silva Evandro Cavalcanti Lins e Silva (18 January 1912 – 17 December 2002) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, writer and politician. He was Prosecutor General of the Republic, Chief of Staff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Justice of the Supreme ...

Victor Nunes Leal Victor Nunes Leal (11 November 1914 – 17 May 1985) was a Brazilian jurist, Minister of the Supreme Federal Court and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He graduated from the National Faculty of Law of the Federal Un ...

Alfredo Buzaid Alfredo Buzaid (20 July 1914 – 10 July 1991) was a Brazilian jurist, lawyer, magistrate and professor. During the military dictatorship he was Minister of Justice in the Emílio Garrastazu Médici government and Minister of the Supreme Court a ...

* Paulo Brossard *

Raymundo Faoro Raymundo Faoro (27 April 1925, in Vacaria – 15 May 2003, in Rio de Janeiro) was a lawyer, jurist, sociologist, historian, writer and president of the Brazilian Bar Association, which in Portuguese is known as OAB (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil). ...

Joaquim Barbosa Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes (; born October 7, 1954) is a former Justice of the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil. He served as the president of the court (Chief Justice) between 2012 and 2014. Barbosa studied law at University of Brasília ...

Walter Moraes Walter Moraes (13 November 1934 in Catanduva, São Paulo, Brazil – 17 November 1997 in Diadema, São Paulo), was a Brazilian jurist, Catholic thinker, professor of the University of São Paulo Faculty of Law, judge at the High Court of São Paul ...

* Marco Aurélio Mello * Celso Lafer * Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda * Miguel Reale *

Augusto Teixeira de Freitas Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (1816–1883) was a prominent Brazilian jurist whose prolific writings inspired all South American private law codifications. After studies at Olinda and São Paulo, Teixeira de Freitas practiced law as an advocate ...

Brunei

Geoffrey Briggs Sir Geoffrey Gould Briggs (6 May 1914 – 12 May 1993) was an English lawyer and judge. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in the 1970s and of Brunei in the 1980s. Biography Early life Briggs was born in 1914, the s ...

Cameroon

* Fojou Pierre Robert Née le 19 Mai 1969, Pierre Robert Fojou est un Avocat au Barreau du Cameroun depuis 2001, quand il a prêté serment. Mariée et père de plusieurs enfants, Maître Fojou est reconnu parmi les meilleurs Avocats du Cameroun par son expertise en matière de propriété intellectuelle et en droit des affaires. Il est d'ailleurs un mandataire agréé de l'OAPI, membre de l'union internationale des avocats, membre de l'international trademark association, membre à vie de l'union panafricaine des avocats. En 2018, il est élu Membre du conseil de l'ordre des Avocats et est nommée représentant adjoint du Bâtonnier pour les régions du centre, sud, est. Suite au décès du Bâtonnier en 2020, il assure l'intérim du représentant du Bâtonnier pour les mêmes régions jusqu'au élections de 2022, ou il fini premier conseiller national avec plus de 1,600 voix. Il est alors nommé à ce même poste de représentant adjoint C-S-E par le Bâtonnier Eric Mbah. C'est par son dévouement au sein de sa profession et ses réussites qu'il a été nommé le 20 ,ai 2020 Chevalier de l'ordre de la Valeur par son excellence Monsieur le Président de la République, Paul Biya. Me Fojou est aussi reconnu comme le sauveur des élèves ayant été accusés dans la fraude des examens officiels en 2020, dont il a été l'avocat en compagnie Me Sim avec qu'ils ont réussi à obtenir la libération.

Canada

Rosalie Abella Rosalie Silberman Abella (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist. In 2004, Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and refugee to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench. She retired from the federa ...

* Louise Arbour * Matthew Baillie Begbie * Denise Bellamy * William Hume Blake * Louise Charron * Henry Pering Pellew Crease * Brian Dickson *

John Gomery John Howard Gomery (August 9, 1932 – May 18, 2021) was a Canadian jurist from Quebec. He was a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1982–2007, and appointed Commissioner for the Royal Commission investigating the Sponsorship scandal in ...

* Peter Hogg * Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine * Antonio Lamer *

Bora Laskin Bora Laskin (October 5, 1912 – March 26, 1984) was a Canadian jurist who served as the 14th chief justice of Canada from 1973 to 1984. Laskin was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court in 1970, and served on the Ontario Court of A ...

* John McClung * Beverley McLachlin, first female Chief Justice of Canada (2000-2017) *

Roy McMurtry Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin. In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...

* Louis-Philippe Pigeon *

F. R. Scott Francis Reginald Scott (1899–1985), commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott, was a lawyer, Canadian poet, intellectual, and constitutional scholar. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwe ...

, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott) *

Robert Taschereau Robert Taschereau (September 10, 1896 – July 26, 1970) was a lawyer who became the 11th Chief Justice of Canada and who briefly served as the Administrator of the Government of Canada following the death of Governor General of Canada Georg ...

Stephen Waddams Stephen Waddams is a Canadian legal scholar. He has taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law since 1968. Education Waddams earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Laws from the University of To ...

Colombia

* Carlos Medellín Forero *

Carlos Lemos Simmonds Carlos Apolinar Lemos Simmonds (October 23, 1933 – July 30, 2003) was the sixth Vice President of Colombia. Political career After graduating Lemos worked as a Municipal Judge in the town of Piendamó, Cauca. He later transferred to Bogotá ...

Cyprus

Solon Nikitas Solon Nikitas (October 1, 1937 – October 22, 2005) was a distinguished Cypriot judge and jurist. Born in Limassol on 1.10.1937, where he lived his early years. His family then moved to Famagusta and he graduated from the Gymnasium of Famagusta w ...

Alecos Markides Alekos Markidis (Greek: Αλέκος Μαρκίδης; 23 January 1943 – 23 April 2020) was a Cypriot attorney and politician. Born in Nicosia, Markides studied law in Athens in 1966. He was elected a member of the Cypriot Parliament The H ...

* Phytos Poetis

Czechoslovakia

Emil Hácha Emil Dominik Josef Hácha (12 July 1872 – 27 June 1945) was a Czech lawyer, the president of Czechoslovakia from November 1938 to March 1939. In March 1939, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Hácha was the nominal president of the newly pro ...

František Ladislav Rieger František Ladislav Rieger (10 December 1818 – 3 March 1903) was a Czech politician and publicist made famous for his leadership of the early Czech nationalist movement. Early life Rieger was born into the household of a miller in the town of ...

Czech Republic

Petra Buzková Petra Buzková (born 7 December 1965) is a former Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the Czech cabinet. She belongs to the Czech Social Democratic Party. In 1992-2006 she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. Buzková obtained her Doc ...

* Otakar Motejl *

Petr Pithart Petr is a Czech given name for males and a Czech surname. Petr is the Czech form of ''Peter''. For information on Petr as a first name, see Peter (given name). Given name * Petr Aven (born 1955), Russian billionaire banker, economist and politic ...

Cyril Svoboda Cyril Svoboda (born 25 November 1956) is a Czech politician, who was leader of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL) in 2001–2003 and 2009–2010, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies i ...

Denmark

Alf Ross Alf Niels Christian Ross (10 June 1899 – 17 August 1979) was a Danish jurist, legal philosopher and judge of the European Court of Human Rights (1959–1971). He is best known as one of the leading figures of Scandinavian legal realism. His deb ...

* Anders Sandøe Ørsted

England & Wales

* John Selden * Sir Francis Bacon *

Sir Redmond Barry Sir Redmond Barry, (7 June 181323 November 1880), was a colonial judge in Victoria, Australia of Anglo-Irish origins. Barry was the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, serving from 1853 until his death in 1880. He is arguably ...

, QC *

Sir William Blackstone Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the '' Commentaries on the Laws of England''. Born into a middle-class family ...

* Lord Browne-Wilkinson * Sir Edward Coke * Lord Denning *

Albert Venn Dicey Albert Venn Dicey, (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922), usually cited as A. V. Dicey, was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist. He is most widely known as the author of ''Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitutio ...

Sir Matthew Hale Sir Matthew Hale (1 November 1609 – 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise ''Historia Placitorum Coronæ'', or ''The History of the Pleas of the Crown''. Born to a barrister and ...

* Lord Hutton *

Lord Goff of Chieveley Robert Lionel Archibald Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, (12 November 1926 – 14 August 2016) was an English barrister and judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, the equivalent of today's President of the Supreme Court. Best known fo ...

* Thomas More *

Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest John William Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest, (11 September 1896 – 9 June 1979) was a judge in England and Wales. He was a Law Lord from 1960 to 1975. Early life Morris was born in Liverpool, where his father was a bank manager. He ...

Lord Scarman Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman, (29 July 1911 – 8 December 2004) was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986. Early life and education Scarman was born in Streatham but grew up on the borde ...

* Hartley Shawcross *

Lord Templeman Sydney William Templeman, Baron Templeman, MBE, PC (3 March 1920 – 4 June 2014) was a British judge. He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1982 to 1995. Early life and career Templeman was born on 3 March 1920, the son of Herbert W ...

* Lord Woolf * Lord Mansfield * Sir Ronald Waterhouse, QC

France

Charles Aubry Charles Aubry (1803–1883) was a French jurist. He taught law at Strasbourg from 1833 to 1871 and was a judge on the Cour de Cassation from 1872 to 1878. He was made famous in French legal circles by his only publication, together with Fréd� ...

Jean-Louis Bruguière Jean-Louis Bruguière (born 29 May 1943) was the leading French investigating magistrate in charge of counter-terrorism affairs. He was appointed in 2004 vice-president of the Paris Court of Serious Claims (''Tribunal de Grande Instance''). He ...

, investigative magistrate specialized on terrorism cases *

Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jea ...

, main author of the Napoleonic Code * Guy Canivet, first president of the Court of Cassation *

Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc (born 24 September 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French lawyer. Life From 23 April 1995 Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc served as head (vice-president) of the French Council of State as vice-pr ...

, vice-president of the '' Conseil d'État'' *

Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix (1791–1853) was a French jurist and the founder of the science of comparative law in France. After studies in Koblenz, Foelix practiced law in Paris, a profession which he saw mainly as a means to engage in his study ...

(1791–1853) founder of the science of comparative law in France. *

Georges Gurvitch Georges Gurvitch (russian: Гео́ргий Дави́дович Гу́рвич; October 20, 1894, Novorossiysk – December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian-born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a ...

Claude Jorda Claude Jorda (born 16 February 1938, in Bône, Algeria) is a French jurist and former Judge at the International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seat ...

* Edouard de Laboulaye * Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France *

Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (1 April 1746 – 25 August 1807) was a French jurist and politician in the time of the French Revolution and the First Empire. His son, Joseph Marie Portalis, was a diplomat and statesman. Biography Early years Port ...

Jean-Paul Beraudo Jean Paul or ''variation'' may refer to: Places * Rue ''Jean-Paul-II'', several streets, see List of places named after Pope John Paul II * Place ''Jean Paul II'', several squares, see List of places named after Pope John Paul II People Given nam ...

* Joseph Dallois

Germany

Claus-Wilhelm Canaris Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (1 July 1937 – 5 March 2021) was a German jurist. Until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of Private Law, Commercial law and Labour law the University of Munich. Life Canaris was born in Liegnitz, Germany. His fa ...

, leading drafter of the modern

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch The ''Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch'' (, ), abbreviated BGB, is the civil code of Germany. In development since 1881, it became effective on 1 January 1900, and was considered a massive and groundbreaking project. The BGB served as a template in sev ...

Philipp Heck Philipp Heck (22 July 1858 – 28 June 1943) was a German jurist and a leading proponent of the doctrine of jurisprudence of interests. After studies in Berlin, he taught law since 1891 at the University of Greifswald, since 1892 at the Universit ...

, representative of

sociological jurisprudence The sociology of law (legal sociology, or law and society) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, ...

(''Interessenjurisprudenz'') *

Roman Herzog Roman Herzog (; 5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as the president of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elec ...

, President of the

German Constitutional Court The Federal Constitutional Court (german: link=no, Bundesverfassungsgericht ; abbreviated: ) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law () of Germany. Since its inc ...

and later President of Germany * :es: Günther Jakobs * Rudolf von Jhering, founder of

(''Interessenjurisprudenz'') *

Hermann Kantorowicz Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz (18 November 1877, Posen, German Empire – 12 February 1940, Cambridge) was a German jurist. He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), and a Visiting Professor, Columbia University (1927), as well as at ...

, proponent of the Free Law School (''Freirechtslehre'') *

Burkard Wilhelm Leist Burkard Wilhelm Leist (12 July 1819 in Dörverden, Westen – 31 December 1906 in Jena) was a German jurist. Biography He studied at University of Göttingen, Göttingen, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berl ...

(1819–1906) * Richard Rosendorff (fl. 1875–1941) *

Claus Roxin Claus Roxin (born 15 May 1931 in Hamburg) is a German jurist. He is one of the most influential dogmatists of German penal law and has gained national and international reputation in this field. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by 28 univ ...

, founder of the "Tatherrschaftslehre" * Friedrich Carl von Savigny, 19th century legal scholar of the historical school * Carl Schmitt, legal theorist *

Bernhard Windscheid Bernhard Windscheid (26 June 1817 – 26 October 1892) was a German jurist and a member of the pandectistic school of law thought. He became famous with his essay on the concept of a legal action, which sparkled a debate with that is said to ...

, leading drafter of the BGB *

Reinhold Zippelius Reinhold Zippelius (born 19 May 1928) is a German jurist and law scholar. Now retired, he was formerly the professor of the Philosophy of law and Public law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Life and career Reinhold Walter Zippelius was ...

, German representative of critical rationalism in jurisprudence * Robert Alexy

Hong Kong

* Kemal Bokhary (judge) * Charles Ching (judge) *

Andrew Li Andrew Li Kwok-nang (; born December 1948) is a retired Hong Kong judge, and a former Chief Justice of Hong Kong, who was the first to preside over the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, established on 1 July 1997. Li was succeeded by Geoffre ...

(judge) * Henry Litton (judge) * Charles Ching * Denys Roberts *

Robert Ribeiro Roberto Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro (, born 20 March 1949) is a Hong Kong judge and honorary lecturer in law at the University of Hong Kong. He is currently one of the three permanent judges for the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, and is th ...

* George Phillippo * Yang Ti-liang *

Patrick Yu Patrick Yu Shuk Siu (; August 22, 1922 – January 12, 2019) was a celebrated trial and appellate lawyer in Hong Kong. Biography Born into an intellectual Chinese family in Hong Kong, with ancestry from Taishan, Guangdong, Yu was educated a ...

India

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...

Subodh Markandeya Subodh Markandeya is a senior Indian lawyer, author and judicial activist. He primarily practices at the Supreme Court of India, but also appears in various High Courts. He has served as the standing counsel for Government of India, Life Insu ...

K. K. Mathew Kuttyil Kurien Mathew (3 January 1911 – 2 May 1992) was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India highly regarded for his scholarship and for his seminal contribution to the Constitutional and Administrative law in India India, officially ...

* Flavia Agnes *

Upendra Baxi Upendra Baxi (born 9 November 1938) is a legal scholar, since 1996 professor of law in development at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is presently a Research Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar in Public Law and Jurispruden ...

P. B. Gajendragadkar Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar (16 March 1901 – 12 June 1981) originally from Gajendra-Gad, a historic fort and town in southern India was the 7th Chief Justice of India, serving from February 1964 to March 1966. Career Prahlad Bal ...

* Justice V.R Krishna Iyer * Ram Jethmalani *

Fali S. Nariman Fali Sam Nariman (born 10 January 1929) is an Indian jurist. He is the senior advocate to the Supreme Court of India since 1971 and was the President of the Bar Association of India from 1991 to 2010. Nariman is an internationally recognised jur ...

* N. R. Madhava Menon *

Nanabhoy Palkhivala Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala (16 January 1920 – 11 December 2002) was an Indian jurist and liberal economist. Early years Nani Palkhivala was born in 1920 in Bombay in what was then the Bombay Presidency. His family name derives from the pro ...

* Justice P. N. Bhagwati *

B.S. Chimni B. S. Chimni is a legal scholar and academic who is presently distinguished professor of international law member at Jindal Global Law School. His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee l ...

* M.P. Singh *

K N Chandrasekharan Pillai K. N. Chandrasekharan Pillai is an Indian legal academic. He is the former director of the Indian Law Institute. He now lives in Cochin. Early life and education Pillai is from Chunakkara in the district of Alappuzha, Kerala. He received his B. ...

Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian judge who is appointed as the 50th and current Chief Justice of India. He is a former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of the Bombay High Court. ...

* Justice Y. V. Chandrachud * Radhabinod Pal *

Hari Singh Gour Sir Hari Singh Gour (26 November 1870 – 25 December 1949) was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist. Gour was the First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi and Nagpur University, founde ...

* B. N. Srikrishna *

Shamnad Basheer Shamnad Basheer (14 May 1976 – c. 8 August 2019) was an Indian legal scholar and founder of the blog ''SpicyIP''. He was also the founder of IDIA, a trust which works on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students. Basheer wa ...

M. C. Setalvad Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad (c. 1884 – 1974) was an eminent Indian jurist, who became the first and longest serving Attorney General for India (1950–1963). He also remained the Chairman of the first Law Commission of India (1955–1958), which ...

* Mandagadde Rama Jois *Faizan Mustafa, Dr. Faizan Mustafa *Adish Aggarwala, Adish C. Aggarwala

Iran

* Shirin Ebadi

Ireland

*William Binchy (Regius Professor of Laws in Trinity College, Dublin) *Declan Costello (former President of the High Court and Attorney-General) *Susan Denham (Judge of the Supreme Court) *Thomas Finlay (judge), Thomas Finlay (former Chief Justice) *Dermot Gleeson (Senior Counsel and former Attorney-General) *Adrian Hardiman (Judge of the Supreme Court) *Gerard Hogan (Senior Counsel, Lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin, co-editor of the later editions of "J.M. Kelly: The Irish Constitution") *Ronan Keane (former Chief Justice) *John M. Kelly (politician), John M. Kelly (late Attorney-General and author of the commentary "The Irish Constitution") *Hugh Kennedy (late Chief Justice and Attorney-General) *John L. Murray (judge), John L. Murray (Chief Justice and former Attorney-General) *Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (late Chief Justice, Attorney-General and President of Ireland) *Tom O'Higgins, Thomas O'Higgins (late Chief Justice) *Mary Robinson (former Barrister, Professor and later President of Ireland)

Israel

*Miriam Ben-Porat *Itzhak Nener *Gabriela Shalev

Italy

* Thomas Aquinas * Alberico Gentili * Niccolò Machiavelli * Giambattista Vico * Cesare Beccaria * Francesco Mario Pagano * Benedetto Marcello * Francesco Carrara (jurist), Francesco Carrara * Gaetano Filangieri * Piero Calamandrei * Francesco Carnelutti * Pietro della Vigna * Vincenzo Caianiello * Francesco Parisi (economist), Francesco Parisi * Luigi Ferrari Bravo * Dionisio Anzilotti * Bettina d'Andrea * Riccardo Petroni * Gino Giugni * Giovanni Conso * Enrico De Nicola * Leopoldo Elia * Marco Biagi (jurist), Marco Biagi * Giovanni Maria Flick * Giuliano Vassalli * Gustavo Zagrebelsky

Lebanon

* *

Macau

* Sam Hou Fai – Presidente * Lai Kin Hong – Presidente * Tam Hio Wa – Presidente dos Tribunais de Primeira Instancia * Alice Leonor das Neves Costa – Presidente de tribunal colectivo * Lau Cheok Va – Presidente

Morocco

* Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif (fl.1802-12), scribe and scholar

Nepal

* Rajendra Kumar Acharya

The Netherlands

* Hugo Grotius * Tobias Asser, played major role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, joint recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Peace * Johannes Bob van Benthem, first president of the European Patent Organisation, European Patent Office * Cleveringa, Rudolph Cleveringa, professor at Leyden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier * Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans, judge on the International Court of Justice * Henry G. Schermers, professor at Leiden University, founder of Mordenate College and member of the European Commission for Human Rights * Bert Röling, judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo

Pakistan

* Muhammad Iqbal * Abul A'la Maududi * Rashid Rehman * Ali Ahmad Kurd * Abdul Hafiz Pirzada * Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan * Shahid Hamid * Mudassar Rasheed * S.M. Zafar * Mian Tufail Mohammad * Ashtar Ausaf Ali * Liaquat Ali Khan * Ghulam Farooq Awan * Hina Jilani * Asma Jahangir * Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri * Sadiq Khan * Wasim Sajjad

Philippines

* Ricardo C. Puno

Portugal

*Middle Ages, Medieval Period: **João das Regras, João Das Regras *Modern period, Modern Period: **Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo *Liberalism in Portugal, Liberalism/Constitutional monarchy, Constitucional Monarchy: **Mouzinho da Silveira **António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, António Luís de Seabra **António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar, António Bernardo de Costa Cabral **João Franco **Passos Manuel, Manuel da Silva Passos **:pt:José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses, José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses *Contemporary history, Contemporary Period: **:pt:António Manuel Hespanha, José Manuel Hespanha **José Manuel Barroso, José Manuel Durão Barroso **:pt:Jorge Miranda, Jorge Miranda **José Hermano Saraiva **Fernando Machado Soares **:pt:António Menezes Cordeiro, António Menezes Cordeiro **Miguel Sousa Tavares **Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa **Manuel Lobo Antunes

Scotland

* Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, Colin Boyd, Lord Advocate * William Cullen, Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland * Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Lord Brian Gill, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland * Sir Neil MacCormick * Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry * Donald MacArthur Ross, Lord Ross, Lord Donald MacArthur Ross

Serbia

* Slobodan Jovanović * Milovan Milovanović * Jovan Sterija Popović * Smilja Avramov * Mirko Vasiljević * Miodrag Majić

Soviet Union & Russian Federation

* Major-General Iola Nikitchenko

Spain

* Gloria Begué Cantón * Fèlix Maria Falguera * Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande * Baltasar Garzón * Juan Sempere y Guarinos

Sri Lanka

*Christopher Weeramantry * Mark Fernando * Neelan Tiruchelvam * Deepika Udagama

Switzerland

* Eugen Huber, University of Berne, drafter of the Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code. * Walter Kälin

United States

* Robert Araujo (Jurist), Robert Araujo, S.J. International Law Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law * Randy Barnett (born 1952), Law Professor at Georgetown University Law Center * Paul Butler (professor) (born 1961) is an American lawyer, former prosecutor, and current Law ProfessorGeorgetown University Law Center * William J. Brennan, Jr., William Brennan (1906–1997), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Warren E. Burger (1907–1995), Chief Justice of the United States * Mike Cicconetti (born 1951), judge, Lake County, Ohio * Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Henry Friendly (1903–1986), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit * Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Learned Hand (1872–1961), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit * Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Lance Ito (born 1950), judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County * John Jay (1745–1829), Chief Justice of the United States * Alex Kozinski (born 1950), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit * Mills Lane (born 1936), judge, Marine, Boxing Referee * Hans A. Linde (1924–2020), justice, Oregon Supreme Court * John Marshall (1755–1835), Chief Justice of the United States * Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Frank Murphy (1890–1949), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Judge Recorder's Court. *Martha Nussbaum (present) Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago * Richard Posner (born 1939), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), Abolitionist, Jurist, Lawyer, Entrepreneur * Joseph Story (1779–1845), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States * Roger J. Traynor (1900–1983), Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California * Earl Warren (1891–1974), Chief Justice of the United States * John Minor Wisdom (1905–1999), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit * William Rehnquist (1924–2005), Chief Justice of the United States * Antonin Scalia (1936–2016), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Canon law

* Eugenio Corecco—(1931–1995), notable for his contributions to the philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law * John D. Faris—(born 1951), prominent scholar of Eastern Catholic canon law * Pietro Gasparri—(1852–1934), architect of the 1917 Code of Canon Law * Edward N. Peters—(born 1957), Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura (legal consultant to the highest canonical court), prominent scholar of canon law

International Courts at the Hague

* Bruno Simma *

* Rosalyn Higgins * Luis Moreno Ocampo * Carla Del Ponte {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Jurists Lists of legal professionals, Jurists Jurists,