List of jurists

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

Premodern[]

Modern jurists by country[]

Argentina[]

  • Luis Moreno Ocampo
  • Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni

Australia[]

See also: List of Judges of the High Court of Australia, List of Judges of the Federal Court of Australia, and List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Western 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[]

  • , former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
  • Ludwig Adamovich Jr., former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
  • , 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, president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
  • , draftsman of the final version of the Austrian Civil Code of 1811

Bangladesh[]

Brazil[]

Brunei[]

Canada[]

Colombia[]

Cyprus[]

Czechoslovakia[]

Czech Republic[]

Denmark[]

England & Wales[]

See also: Law Lords
  • 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[]

Germany[]

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[]

For more Italian jurists, see Category:Italian jurists.

Lebanon[]

Macau[]

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 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[]

Portugal[]

Scotland[]

Serbia[]

Soviet Union & Russian Federation[]

  • Major-General Iola Nikitchenko

Spain[]

Sri Lanka[]

Switzerland[]

United States[]

See also: Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the 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[]

International Courts at the Hague[]

See also: International Criminal Court
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