List of prominent jurists
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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
Modern jurists by country
Argentina
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 Gaudron (judge)
- Harry Gibbs (judge)
- Samuel Griffith (judge)
- Henry Higgins (judge)
- Isaac Isaacs (judge)
- Michael Kirby (judge)
- Adrian Knox (judge)
- Anthony Mason (judge)
- Lionel Murphy (judge)
- Richard O'Connor (judge)
- Geoffrey Robertson (Queen's Counsel)
- Ninian Stephen (judge)
- 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
- Simon Wiesenthal, "Nazi hunter"
- 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
Canada
- Rosalie Abella
- Louise Arbour
- Denise Bellamy
- Louise Charron
- Brian Dickson
- John Gomery
- 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
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
France
- 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
- Roger Le Loire
- Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France
- 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)
Iran
Lebanon
Soviet Union & Russian Federation
- Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
Spain
Switzerland
- Eugen Huber, drafter of the Swiss Zivilgesetzbuch
United States
- Roy Bean
- William Brennan
- 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
International Court of Justice at the Hague
See also International Criminal Courtzh:法学家列表