List of jurists

The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.

Premodern

Ancient Near East

Ur-Nammu
Hammurabi

Ancient Egypt

Bakenranef

Ancient Israel

Solomon

Ancient India

Manu
Chanakya

Ancient Greece

Draco
Lycurgus
Solon
Zaleucus
Charondas
Demonax
Diagoras of Melos

Ancient Rome

Byzantine Empire

Islamic

Medieval Roman Law

Canon law

Modern jurists by country

Argentina

Australia

Sir Edmund Barton (judge)
Sir Garfield Barwick (judge)
Sir Gerard Brennan (judge)
Julian Burnside (Queen's Counsel)
Sir William Deane (judge, Governor-General)
Sir Owen Dixon (judge)
Dr H.V. Evatt (judge, politician)
Robert French (judge)
Mary Gaudron (judge)
Sir Harry Gibbs (judge)
Murray Gleeson (judge)
Sir Samuel Griffith (judge)
H.B. Higgins (judge)
Sir Isaac Isaacs (judge, Governor-General)
David Ipp (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 (judge)
Julius Stone
Sir Ronald Wilson (judge)

Austria

Ludwig Adamovich Sr., former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Ludwig Adamovich Jr., former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Walter Antoniolli, former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Eugen Ehrlich, legal sociologist
Hans Kelsen, Constitutional theorist, draftsman of the Austrian constitution and creator of the Pure Theory of Law
Karl Korinek, former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the Austrian Civil Code of 1811

Bangladesh

Brazil

Brunei

Geoffrey Briggs

Canada

Rosalie Abella
Louise Arbour
Matthew Baillie Begbie
Denise Bellamy
William Hume Blake
Louise Charron
Henry Pering Pellew Crease
Brian Dickson
John Gomery
Peter Hogg
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Antonio Lamer
Bora Laskin
John McClung
Beverley McLachlin, first female Chief Justice of Canada (2000–2017)
Roy McMurtry
Louis-Philippe Pigeon
F. R. Scott, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott)
Robert Taschereau
Stephen Waddams

Colombia

Cyprus

Czechoslovakia

Czech Republic

Denmark

England & Wales

France

Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre
Charles Aubry
Jean-Louis Bruguière, investigative magistrate specialized on terrorism cases
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, main author of the Napoleonic Code
Guy Canivet, first president of the Court of Cassation
Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc, vice-president of the Conseil d'État
Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix (1791–1853) founder of the science of comparative law in France.
Georges Gurvitch
Claude Jorda
Edouard de Laboulaye
Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Jean-Paul Beraudo
Joseph Dallois

Germany

Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, leading drafter of the modern Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
Philipp Heck, representative of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz)
Roman Herzog, President of the German Constitutional Court and later President of Germany
es: Günther Jakobs
Rudolf von Jhering, founder of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz)
Hermann Kantorowicz, proponent of the Free Law School (Freirechtslehre)
Burkard Wilhelm Leist (1819–1906)
Richard Rosendorff (fl. 1875–1941)
Claus Roxin, founder of the "Tatherrschaftslehre"
Friedrich Carl von Savigny, 19th century legal scholar of the historical school
Carl Schmitt, legal theorist
Bernhard Windscheid, leading drafter of the BGB
Reinhold Zippelius, German representative of critical rationalism in jurisprudence
Robert Alexy

Hong Kong

India

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 (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 (late Attorney-General and author of the commentary "The Irish Constitution")
Hugh Kennedy (late Chief Justice and Attorney-General)
John L. Murray (Chief Justice and former Attorney-General)
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (late Chief Justice, Attorney-General and President of Ireland)
Thomas O'Higgins (late Chief Justice)
Mary Robinson (former Barrister, Professor and later President of Ireland)

Israel

Italy

Lebanon

Choucri Cardahi [fr]
Émile Tyan [fr]

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.1802–1812), scribe and scholar

The Netherlands

Hugo Grotius
Gerhard Diephuis
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 Office
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

Philippines

Ricardo C. Puno

Portugal

Medieval Period:
- João Das Regras
Modern Period:
- Duarte Nunes de Leão
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo
- Jorge de Cabedo
- Pedro Barbosa
- Belchior Febos
Liberalism/Constitucional Monarchy:
- José Homem Correia Teles
- Mouzinho da Silveira
- António Luís de Seabra
- António Bernardo de Costa Cabral
- João Franco
- Manuel da Silva Passos
- José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses
- Henrique O'Neill
- Guerra Junqueiro
Contemporary Period:
- Manuel de Arriaga
- Ana Maria Guerra Martins
- Januário Lourenço
- José Manuel Hespanha
- José Manuel Durão Barroso
- Jorge Miranda
- José Hermano Saraiva
- José Dias Ferreira
- Isabel de Magalhães Colaço
- Fernando Machado Soares
- António Menezes Cordeiro
- Miguel Sousa Tavares
- Paula Escarameia
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
- Maria Lúcia Amaral
- Manuel Lobo Antunes

Scotland

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2016)

Serbia

Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)

Spain

Sri Lanka

Switzerland

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

United States

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 Professor Georgetown University Law Center
William Brennan (1906–1997), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), 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, Supreme Court of the United States
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), 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, 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, Supreme Court of the United States
John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), 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
Anthony Kennedy (born 1936), Associate Justice, Supreme Court 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, Supreme Court of the United States
Frank Murphy (1890–1949), 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, 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, 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

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