The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction. Not to be confused with lawyers.
Main article Jurists
Hammurabi
Solomon
Ancient India
Manu
Chanakya
Ancient Greece:
Draco
Solon
Ancient Rome:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gaius
Herennius Modestinus
Aemilius Papinianus
Paulus
Paulus Catena
Tribonian
Domitius Ulpianus
Bartolus de Saxoferrato
Accursius
Luis Moreno Ocampo
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)
See also: List of Judges of the High Court of Australia, List of Judges of the Federal Court of Australia, List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
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
Franz Bydlinski, leading late 20th-century theorist on the methods of private law
Eugen Ehrlich, legal sociologist
Walther Kastner, 20th century lawyer and law professor who shaped many reforms of Austrian corporate law
Hans Kelsen, Constitutional theorist, draftsman of the Austrian constitution and creator of the Pure Theory of Law
Karl Korinek, president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Karl Anton Freiherr von Martini, late 18th century jurist and proponent of natural law, writer of earlier drafts, including the West Galician Book of Laws leading up to the Austrian Civil Code of 1811
Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the Austrian Civil Code of 1811
František Ladislav Rieger
A. K. Fazlul Huq
Radhabinod Pal
Abdur Razzaq
M. A. Muid Khan
Rizwan Hussain
Azizul Haque
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
Kamal Hossain
Khatun Sapnara
Rezaur Rahman
Marquess of Sapucaí
Viscount of Jequitinhonha
Marquess of Paraná
Pimenta Bueno
Eusébio de Queirós
Baron of Uruguaiana
José Tomás Nabuco de Araújo
Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos
Baron of Penedo
Cândido Mendes de Almeida
Viscount of Rio Branco
Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro
Rui Barbosa
Clóvis Beviláqua
Baron of Rio Branco
Joaquim Nabuco
João Mendes de Almeida Júnior
Pedro Lessa
Edmundo Muniz Barreto
Antônio Evaristo de Morais
Antônio Evaristo de Morais Filho
Carlos Maximiliano
José de Alcântara Machado
Eduardo Spínola
Levi Carneiro
Francisco Luís da Silva Campos
Nelson Hungria
Orozimbo Nonato
Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto
Hahnemann Guimarães
Hermes Lima
José de Aguiar Dias
Orlando Gomes
Washington de Barros Monteiro
San Tiago Dantas
Evandro Lins e Silva
Caio Mário da Silva Pereira
Maria Helena Diniz
Victor Nunes Leal
Alfredo Buzaid
Goffredo da Silva Telles Júnior
Hely Lopes Meirelles
Rubens Gomes de Sousa
Sílvio Rodrigues
Arnaldo Süssekind
Paulo Brossard
Raymundo Faoro
Roberto Lyra Filho
Sydney Sanches
Sepúlveda Pertence
Joaquim Barbosa
José Cretella Júnior
Paulo Nader
Cândido Rangel Dinamarco
Ada Pellegrini
Tourinho Filho
Walter Moraes
Antônio Carlos de Araújo Cintra
Marco Aurélio Mello
Celso Lafer
Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
Miguel Reale
Augusto Teixeira de Freitas
Geoffrey Briggs
Mohamed Saied
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, current (2000-) Chief Justice of Canada
Roy McMurtry
Louis-Philippe Pigeon
F. R. Scott, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott)
Robert Taschereau
Stephen Waddams
Arturo Valencia Zea
Luis Carlos Sáchica Aponte
José Roberto Herrera Vergara
Vladimiro Naranjo
Hernando Morales Molina
Carlos Medellín Forero
Alfonso Reyes Echandía
Carlos Lemos Simmonds
Jorge Eliecer Gaitán
Francisco de Paula Santander
Alejandro Bonivento
Fernando Hinestroza
Bernardo Gaitán Mahecha
Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra
Antonio Rocha Alvira
Adán Arriaga Andrade
Darío Echandía Olaya
José María del castillo y Rada
Álvaro Pérez Vives
Camilo Torres y Tenorio
Eduardo Santos Montejo
José J Gómez
Eduardo García Sarmiento
José Alejandro Bonivento
Michalakis A. Triantafyllides
Andreas N. Loizou
Georghios M. Pikis
Solon Nikitas
Alecos Markides
Phytos Poetis
Criton G. Tornaritis
Emil Hácha
Petra Buzková
Otakar Motejl
Petr Pithart
Cyril Svoboda
Alf Ross
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
England & Wales
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
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
Georges Gurvitch
Claude Jorda
Edouard de Laboulaye
Roger Le Loire
Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Jean-Paul Beraudo
Siegfried Bross
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)
Karl Larenz, leading 20th century theorist of the theory of private law (Wertungsjurisprudenz or Jurisprudence of values)
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
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
B. R. Ambedkar
Ved P. Nanda
Radhabinod Pal
Subodh Markandeya
K. K. Mathew
Shekhar Bhargava
Flavia Agnes
Upendra Baxi
P. B. Gajendragadkar
Justice V.R Krishna Iyer
Ram Jethmalani
N. R. Madhava Menon
Nanabhoy Palkhivala
S.P Sathe
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
Mandagadde Rama Jois
Mohammad Ali-Saffari
Sadeq Khalkhali
Shirin Ebadi
Ireland
William Binchy (Regius Professor of Laws in Trinity College, Dublin)
James Casey (Professor)
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)
Séamus Henchy (former 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)
Finbarr McAuley (Professor)
Patrick McEntee (Senior Counsel)
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)
Brian Walsh (late Judge of the Supreme Court)
Gerard Whyte (Professor in Trinity College, co-editor of the later editions of "J.M. Kelly: The Irish Constitution")
Thomas Aquinas
Alberico Gentili
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
Mauro Cappelletti
Giovanni Conso
Enrico De Nicola
Leopoldo Elia
Marco Biagi
Giovanni Maria Flick
Giuliano Vassalli
Gustavo Zagrebelsky
Domitius Ulpianus
Aemilius Papinianus
Julius Paulus Prudentissimus
Choucri Cardahi
Pierre Ghannaje
Pierre Safa
Mustafa Al Aouji
Mohammed Al Naqeeb
Edouard Eid
Ibrahim Najjar
Émile Tyan
Sam Hou Fai – Presidente
Chu Kin – Juizes
Virato Manuel Pinheiro de Lima – Juizes
Lai Kin Hong – Presidente
Choi Mou Pan – Juizes
Jose Maria Dias Azedo – Juizes
Chan Kuong Seng – Juizes
Joao Augusto Goncalves Gil de Oliveira – Juizes
Tam Hio Wa – Presidente dos Tribunais de Primeira Instancia
Alice Leonor das Neves Costa – Presidente de tribunal colectivo
Fong Man Chong – Juizes de tribunal colectivo
Chao Im Peng – Juizes de tribunal colectivo
Mario Augosto Silvestre – Juízes de tribunal singular
Ip Son Sang – Juízes de tribunal singular
Tong Hio Fong – Juízes de tribunal singular
Lam Peng Fai – Juízes de tribunal singular
Cheong Un Mei – Juízes de tribunal singular
Sam Keng Tan – Juízes de tribunal singular
Teresa Leong – Juízes de tribunal singular
Alvaro Antonio Mangas Abreu Dantas – Juízes de tribunal singular
Fernando Miguel Furtado Andre Alves – Juízes de tribunal singular
Ip Sio Fan – Juízes de tribunal singular
Kan Cheng Ha – Juízes de tribunal singular
Lou Ieng Ha – Juízes de tribunal singular
Jeronimo Alberto Goncalves Santos – Juízes de tribunal singular
Margarida Alexanda de Meira Pinto Gomes – Juízes de tribunal singular
Paulo Chan – Juizes
Leong Fong Meng – Juizes
Ho Wai Neng – Juiz
Lai Kin Hong – Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
Mario Augosto Silvestre – Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
Philip Xaiver – Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
Anabela Sales Ritchie – Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
Lau Cheok Va – Presidente
Hoi Sai Iun – Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
Vitor Ng – Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
Ieong Wan Chong – Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
Philip Xavier – Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
Ho Ten Iat – Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
Maria Goretti Faria Da Costa - Iurisconsultus
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 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
Bernard Victor Aloysius Röling, judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo
Muhammad Iqbal
Abul A'la Maududi
Rashid Rehman
Ali Ahmad Kurd
Abdul Hafiz Pirzada
Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
Shahid Hamid
S.M. Zafar
Mian Tufail Mohammad
Ashtar Ausaf Ali
Liaquat Ali Khan
Ghulam Farooq Awan
Hina Jilani
Ashraf Rahimi
Asma Jahangir
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
Sadiq Khan
Wasim Sajjad
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
Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
Gabriel Shershenevich
Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande
Baltasar Garzón
Christopher Weeramantry
C.F. Amerasinghe
Radhika Coomarawsamy
Rohan Edrisinghe
Mark Fernando
Savitri Goonasekere
Neelan Tiruchelvam
Deepika Udagama
Switzerland
Eugen Huber, University of Berne, drafter of the Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code.
Jörg Paul Müller, prominent human rights theorist
Walter Kälin [1]
O.A. Shalimov jurist
O.A. Dzubenko jurist
Robert Araujo, S.J. International Law Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Randy Barnett (1952), Law Professor at Georgetown University Law Center
Paul Butler (professor) (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 (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), 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
Peggy Fulton Hora, Superior Court of California, Alameda County
Lance Ito (1950), judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County
John Jay (1745–1829), Chief Justice of the United States
Alex Kozinski (1950), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Mills Lane (1936), judge, Marine, Boxing Referee
Hans A. Linde (1924), 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 (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
Bruno Simma
Claude Jorda
Rosalyn Higgins
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Carla Del Ponte
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