List of jurists

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

Premodern

[Ancient Near East]

Argentina

Luis Moreno Ocampo
Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni
Australia
Sir Edmund Barton
Sir Garfield Barwick
Sir Gerard Brennan
Julian Burnside
Sir William Deane
Sir Owen Dixon
Dr H.V. Evatt
Robert French
Mary Gaudron
Sir Harry Gibbs
Murray Gleeson
Sir Samuel Griffith
H.B. Higgins
Sir Isaac Isaacs
David Ipp
Michael Kirby
Sir Adrian Knox
Sir Anthony Mason
Lionel Murphy
Richard O'Connor
Geoffrey Robertson
Sir Ninian Stephen
Julius Stone
Sir Ronald Wilson
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
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
Rosa Weber
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
Celso de Mello
Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
Miguel Reale
Augusto Teixeira de Freitas
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
Roy McMurtry
Louis-Philippe Pigeon
F. R. Scott, also a poet
Robert Taschereau
Stephen Waddams
Colombia
Carlos Medellín Forero
Carlos Lemos Simmonds
Cyprus
Solon Nikitas
Alecos Markides
Czechoslovakia
Emil Hácha
František Ladislav Rieger
Czech Republic
Petra Buzková
Otakar Motejl
Petr Pithart
Cyril Svoboda
Denmark
Alf Ross
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
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
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
Kemal Bokhary
Charles Ching
Andrew Li
Henry Litton
Charles Ching
Denys Roberts
Robert Ribeiro
George Phillippo
Yang Ti-liang
Patrick Yu
India
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Mahatma Gandhi
C. Rajagopalachari
Chittaranjan Das
Rajendra Prasad
B. N. Rau
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
Shirin Ebadi
Ireland
William Binchy
Declan Costello
Susan Denham
Thomas Finlay
Dermot Gleeson
Adrian Hardiman
Gerard Hogan
Ronan Keane
John M. Kelly
Hugh Kennedy
John L. Murray
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
Thomas O'Higgins
Mary Robinson
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
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, 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
Muhammad Iqbal
Abul A'la Maududi
Rashid Rehman
Ali Ahmad Kurd
Abdul Hafiz Pirzada
Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
Shahid Hamid
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
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
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
Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)
Andrey Vyshinsky
Evgeny Pashukanis
Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
Pavel Yudin
Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij
Spain
Ramón Llàtzer de Dou de Bassols
Gloria Begué Cantón
Fèlix Maria Falguera
Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande
Baltasar Garzón
Juan Sempere y Guarinos
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
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, 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 of the Supreme Court of the United States|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
Bruno Simma
Claude Jorda
Rosalyn Higgins
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Carla Del Ponte