List of jurists

Premodern

• Ur-Nammu
• Hammurabi
• Solomon
• Ancient India
• * Manu
• * Chanakya
• Ancient Greece:
• *Draco
• *Lycurgus
• *Solon
• Ancient Rome
• *Numa Pompilius
• *Gaius Terentilius Harsa
• *Marcus Tullius Cicero
• *Gaius
• *Herennius Modestinus
• *Aemilius Papinianus
• *Paulus
• *Domitius Ulpianus
• Byzantine Empire
• *Enantiophanes
• *Tribonian
• Islamic
• * Muhammad
• * Abu Hanifa
• * Malik ibn Anas
• * Al-Shafi‘i
• * Ahmad ibn Hanbal
• * Al-Ghazali
• * Ibn Taymiyyah
• * Ibn Khaldun
• Medieval Roman Law
• *Azo of Bologna
• *Irnerius
• *Accursius
• *Cino da Pistoia
• *Bartolus de Saxoferrato
• *Baldus de Ubaldis
• *Matteo D'Afflitto
• Canon law
• *John Gascoigne
• *Johann Georg Reiffenstuel
• Post-medieval
• *Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre
• *Gerhard Diephuis
• *Belchior Febos
• *Ramón Llàtzer de Dou de Bassols
• *Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij

  Modern jurists by country

Argentina

• Luis Moreno Ocampo
• Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni
• Luis Alberto Warat

  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
• 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 Code leading up to the Austrian Civil Code of 1811
• Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the Austrian Civil Code of 1811

  Bangladesh

• 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

  Brazil

• 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
• Alysson Leandro Mascaro

  Brunei

• Geoffrey Briggs
• Mohamed Saied

  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

• 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

  Cyprus

• Michalakis A. Triantafyllides
• Andreas N. Loizou
• Georghios M. Pikis
• Solon Nikitas
• Alecos Markides
• Phytos Poetis
• Criton G. Tornaritis

  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

• 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
• Roger Le Loire
• Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France
• Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
• Jean-Paul Beraudo
• Joseph Dallois

  Germany

• Siegfried Bross
• 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
• Karl Larenz, leading 20th century theorist of the theory of private law
• 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

  Ghana

• Sofia Akuffo Addo
• Edward Wiredu
• I.K. Abban
• Bamford Addo
• Ennin Yeboah

  Hong Kong

• Kemal Bokhary
• Charles Ching
• Andrew Li
• Henry Litton
• Charles Ching
• Denys Roberts
• Robert Ribeiro
• George Phillippo
• Yang Ti-liang
• Patrick Yu

  India

• B. R. Ambedkar
• Ved P. Nanda
• Subodh Markandeya
• K. K. Mathew
• Shekhar Bhargava
• Flavia Agnes
• Upendra Baxi
• P. B. Gajendragadkar
• Justice V.R Krishna Iyer
• Ram Jethmalani
• Fali S. Nariman
• 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
• Dr. Rajendra Dhar Dubey
• Radhabinod Pal
• Hari Singh Gour
• B. N. Srikrishna
• Shamnad Basheer
• M. C. Setalvad
• Mandagadde Rama Jois
• Dr. Faizan Mustafa
• Adish C. Aggarwala

  Iran

• Mohammad Ali-Saffari
• Shirin Ebadi

  Ireland

• William Binchy
• James Casey
• Declan Costello
• Susan Denham
• Thomas Finlay
• Dermot Gleeson
• Adrian Hardiman
• Séamus Henchy
• Gerard Hogan
• Ronan Keane
• John M. Kelly
• Hugh Kennedy
• John L. Murray
• Finbarr McAuley
• Patrick McEntee
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
• Thomas O'Higgins
• Mary Robinson
• Brian Walsh
• Gerard Whyte

  Israel

• Miriam Ben-Porat
• Itzhak Nener
• Gabriela Shalev

  Italy

• Thomas Aquinas
• Alberico Gentili
• Niccolo Macchiavelli
• 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
• Mauro Cappelletti
• Giovanni Conso
• Enrico De Nicola
• Leopoldo Elia
• Marco Biagi
• Giovanni Maria Flick
• Giuliano Vassalli
• Gustavo Zagrebelsky

  Lebanon

• Domitius Ulpianus
• Aemilius Papinianus
• Julius Paulus Prudentissimus
• Pierre Ghannaje
• Pierre Safa
• Mustafa Al Aouji
• Mohammed Al Naqeeb
• Edouard Eid
• Ibrahim Najjar

• Macau

• 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

  Nepal

• 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
• 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
• 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

  Portugal

• Medieval Period:
• *João Das Regras
• *Rui Fernandes
• *Rui Boto
• Modern Period:
• *Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo
• Liberalism/Constitucional Monarchy:
• *Mouzinho da Silveira
• *António Luís de Seabra
• *António Bernardo de Costa Cabral
• *João Franco
• *Manuel da Silva Passos
• *:pt:José_António_de_Miranda_Pereira_de_Meneses|José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses
• Contemporary Period:
• *:pt:António_Manuel_Hespanha|José Manuel Hespanha
• *José Manuel Durão Barroso
• *:pt:Jorge_Miranda|Jorge Miranda
• *José Hermano Saraiva
• *Fernando Machado Soares
• *:pt:António_Menezes_Cordeiro|António Menezes Cordeiro
• *Miguel Sousa Tavares
• * Miguel Teixeira de Sousa
• *Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
• *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
• Živojin Perić
• Jovan Sterija Popović
• Smilja Avramov
• Slobodan Perović
• Ratko Marković
• Zoran Stojanović
• Mirko Vasiljević
• Miodrag Majić

  Soviet Union & Russian Federation

• Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
• Gabriel Shershenevich
• Evgeni Pachukanis
• Viktor Blazheev

  Spain

• Fèlix Maria Falguera
• Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande
• Baltasar Garzón
• Juan Sempere y Guarinos

  Sri Lanka

• 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

  [Ukraine]

• O.A. Shalimov jurist
• O.A. Dzubenko jurist

  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 is an American lawyer, former prosecutor, and current Law ProfessorGeorgetown 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
• 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
• Peggy Fulton Hora, Superior Court of California, Alameda County
• Lance Ito, judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County
• John Jay, Chief Justice of the United States
• Alex Kozinski, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Mills Lane, judge, Marine, Boxing Referee
• 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 canon law
• John D. Faris—, prominent scholar of Oriental 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