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List of jurists
The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction. See also list of lawyers.
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Antiquity
Argentina
- Luis Moreno Ocampo
Australia
- Edmund Barton (judge)
- Garfield Barwick (judge)
- Gerard Brennan (judge)
- Julian Burnside (Queen's Counsel)
- William Deane (judge)
- Owen Dixon (judge)
- H.V. Evatt (judge)
- Mary Genevieve Gaudron (judge)
- Harry Gibbs (judge)
- Samuel Griffith (judge)
- Henry Bournes Higgins (judge)
- Isaac Isaacs (judge)
- Michael Kirby (judge)
- Adrian Knox (judge)
- Anthony Mason (judge)
- Lionel Keith Murphy (judge)
- Richard O'Connor (judge)
- Ninian Stephen (judge)
- Geoffrey Robertson (Queen's Counsel)
- Malcolm Turnbull (Queen's Counsel)
See also List of Judges of the High Court of 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
- 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 creater 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
Brunei
- Geoffrey Briggs
- Mohamed Saied
Canada
- Louise Arbour
- Brian Dickson
- Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
- Antonio Lamer
- Bora Laskin
- Beverly McLachlin, current (2000-) Chief Justice of Canada
- Louis-Philippe Pigeon
- F. R. Scott, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott)
- Robert Taschereau
England
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Sir Redmond Barry
- 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
- William Pitt
- Lord Scarman
- Hartley Shawcross
- Lord Templeman
- Lord Woolf
- Lord Mansfield
See also Law Lords
Fictional
- Ally McBeal
- Perry Mason
- Vinny Gambini from the movie My Cousin Vinny
France
- Jean-Louis Bruguière
- Claude Jorda
- Roger Le Loire
- Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Germany
- Siegfried Bross
- Friedrich Heck , representative of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz)
- Roman Herzog, President of the German Constitutional Court and later President of Germany
- 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)
- Carl Friedrich von Savigny , 19th century legal scholar of the historical school
- Carl Schmitt, legal theorist
- Bernhard Windscheid , leading drafter of the BGB
- Robert Alexy
Hong Kong
- Kemal Bokhary (judge)
- Charles Ching (judge)
- Andrew Li (judge)
- Henry Litton (judge)
International Court of Justice at the Hague
- Claude Jorda
- Luis Moreno Ocampo
- Carla del Ponte
See also International Criminal Court
Iran
- Mohammad Ali-Saffari
- Sadeq Khalkhali
Lebanon
- Mohammad Mughrabi
Soviet Union & Russian Federation
- Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
Spain
Switzerland
- Eugen Huber , drafter of the Swiss Zivilgesetzbuch
United States
- Roy Bean
- Louis Brandeis
- Warren E. Burger
- Clarence Darrow
- Mark J. Geragos
- Learned Hand
- John Marshall Harlan
- Patrick Henry
- Lance Ito
- John Jay
- John Marshall
- Thurgood Marshall
- Richard Posner
- Joseph Story
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Earl Warren
- William Wirt
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