List of jurists

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

Premodern

[Ancient Near East]

[Ancient Egypt]

Bakenranef

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Solomon

Ancient India">History of India">Ancient India

[Ancient Greece]

[Ancient Rome]

[Byzantine Empire]

[Islam]ic

[Medieval Roman Law]

[Canon law]

Modern jurists by country

Argentina

Australia

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

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 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
Roman Herzog, President of the German Constitutional Court and later President of Germany
:es: Günther Jakobs
Rudolf von Jhering, founder of sociological jurisprudence
Hermann Kantorowicz, proponent of the Free Law School
Burkard Wilhelm Leist
Richard Rosendorff
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

Israel

Italy

Lebanon

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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, 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 Leiden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier
Pieter 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

Scotland

Serbia

Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)

Spain

South Africa

Mandisa Maya Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
Raymond Zondo Former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
Mogoeng Mogoeng Former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
Dikgang Moseneke Former Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Acting Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
Zukisa Tshiqi Justice in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Senior Counsel
Dali Mpofu Senior Counsel

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, Law Professor at Georgetown University Law Center
Paul Butler (professor) is an American lawyer, former prosecutor, and current Law Professor Georgetown University Law Center
William Brennan, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States
Mike Cicconetti, judge, Lake County, Ohio
Benjamin N. Cardozo, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Henry Friendly, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
John Bannister Gibson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Learned Hand, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
John Jay, Chief Justice of the United States
Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Alex Kozinski, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Hans A. Linde, justice, Oregon Supreme Court
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States
Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Frank Murphy, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; Judge Recorder's Court.
Martha Nussbaum Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago
Richard Posner, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Lysander Spooner, Abolitionist, Jurist, Lawyer, Entrepreneur
Joseph Story, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Roger J. Traynor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States
John Minor Wisdom, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Canon law

Eugenio Corecco—, notable for his contributions to the philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law
John D. Faris—, prominent scholar of Eastern Catholic canon law
Pietro Gasparri—, architect of the 1917 Code of Canon Law
Edward N. Peters—, Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura, prominent scholar of canon law

International Courts at the Hague