List of jurists
The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.
Premodern
- Ur-Nammu
- Hammurabi
- Solomon
- Ancient India
- Ancient Greece:
- Ancient Rome
- Byzantine Empire
- Islamic
- Medieval Roman Law
- Canon law
- Post-medieval
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
- A. K. Fazlul Huq
- Radhabinod Pal
- Syed Mahbub Murshed
- Justice Mustafa Kamal
- Azizul Haque
- Kamal Hossain
- Khatun Sapnara
Brazil
- Pimenta Bueno
- Eusébio de Queirós
- Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos
- Cândido Mendes de Almeida
- Viscount of Rio Branco
- Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro
- Rui Barbosa
- Clóvis Beviláqua
- Baron of Rio Branco
- Joaquim Nabuco
- Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto
- Hermes Lima
- San Tiago Dantas
- Evandro Lins e Silva
- Victor Nunes Leal
- Alfredo Buzaid
- Paulo Brossard
- Raymundo Faoro
- Joaquim Barbosa
- Walter Moraes
- Marco Aurélio Mello
- Celso Lafer
- Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
- Miguel Reale
- Augusto Teixeira de Freitas
Brunei
Cameroon
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
- 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
- John Selden
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Sir Redmond Barry, QC
- Sir William Blackstone
- Lord Browne-Wilkinson
- Sir Edward Coke
- Lord Denning
- Albert Venn Dicey
- Sir Matthew Hale
- Lord Hutton
- Lord Goff of Chieveley
- Thomas More
- Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest
- Lord Scarman
- Hartley Shawcross
- Lord Templeman
- Lord Woolf
- Lord Mansfield
- Sir Ronald Waterhouse, QC
France
- 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
- Kemal Bokhary (judge)
- Charles Ching (judge)
- Andrew Li (judge)
- Henry Litton (judge)
- Charles Ching
- Denys Roberts
- Robert Ribeiro
- George Phillippo
- Yang Ti-liang
- Patrick Yu
India
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Subodh Markandeya
- K. K. Mathew
- Flavia Agnes
- Upendra Baxi
- P. B. Gajendragadkar
- Justice V.R Krishna Iyer
- Ram Jethmalani
- Fali S. Nariman
- N. R. Madhava Menon
- Nanabhoy Palkhivala
- Justice P. N. Bhagwati
- B.S. Chimni
- M.P. Singh
- K N Chandrasekharan Pillai
- Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
- Justice Y. V. Chandrachud
- Radhabinod Pal
- Hari Singh Gour
- B. N. Srikrishna
- Shamnad Basheer
- M. C. Setalvad
- Mandagadde Rama Jois
- Dr. Faizan Mustafa
- Adish C. Aggarwala
Iran
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
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Italy
- Thomas Aquinas
- Alberico Gentili
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Giambattista Vico
- Cesare Beccaria
- Francesco Mario Pagano
- Benedetto Marcello
- Francesco Carrara
- Gaetano Filangieri
- Piero Calamandrei
- Francesco Carnelutti
- Pietro della Vigna
- Vincenzo Caianiello
- Francesco Parisi
- Luigi Ferrari Bravo
- Dionisio Anzilotti
- Bettina d'Andrea
- Riccardo Petroni
- Gino Giugni
- Giovanni Conso
- Enrico De Nicola
- Leopoldo Elia
- 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
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 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
- 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
Portugal
Scotland
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- Colin Boyd, Lord Advocate
- Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland
- Lord Brian Gill, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland
- Sir Neil MacCormick
- Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
- 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
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 ProfessorGeorgetown 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
- 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