Jurist

Short description: Legal scholar or academic, a professional who studies, teaches and develops law

For the journal, see The Jurist (journal). For the online legal news service, see JURIST. For other uses, see Jurist (disambiguation).

Detail from the sarcophagus of Roman jurist Valerius Petronianus (315–320)

A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law.[1][2] This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge.[3] With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult (iurisconsultus).[4]

The English term jurist is to be distinguished from similar terms in other European languages, where it may be synonymous with legal professional, meaning anyone with a professional law degree that qualifies for admission to the legal profession, including such positions as judge or attorney. In Germany , Scandinavia and a number of other countries jurist denotes someone with a professional law degree, and it may be a protected title, for example in Norway. Thus the term can be applied to attorneys, judges and academics, provided that they hold a qualifying professional law degree.[5] In Germany – the term "full jurist" is sometimes used informally to denote someone who has completed the two state examinations in law that qualify for practising law, to distinguish from someone who may have only the first state examination or some other form of legal qualification that does not qualify for practising law.

## Contents

* 1 Notable jurists
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Notable jurists

Some notable historical jurists include:

* Ur-Nammu
* Lycurgus of Sparta
* Solon of Athens
* B. R. Ambedkar
* Ulpian and Gaius
* Muhammad Averroes
* Thomas Aquinas
* Alberico Gentili
* Francis Bacon
* William Blackstone
* Cesare Beccaria
* Jeremy Bentham
* Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif
* John Stuart Mill
* John Marshall
* Muhammad Iqbal
* Felix Frankfurter
* Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
* Hans Kelsen
* Pontes de Miranda

## See also

* List of jurists
* History of the legal profession
* History of the American legal profession
* Legal profession
* Paralegal
* Islamic jurist

## References

1. ↑ Murray, James A. H., ed (1901). "Jurist". A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 636. https://books.google.com/books?id=E2J8f2fyupcC. "One who professes or treats of law; one versed in the science of law; a legal writer.".
2. ↑ Vieto Piergiovanni (2000). Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History. Germany: Duncker & Humblot. p. 236. ISBN 978-3428097562. [not specific enough to verify]
3. ↑ Garner, Bryan A., ed (2019). "Jurist". Black's Law Dictionary (11 ed.). Thomson West. ISBN 9781539229759.
4. ↑ "Jurisconsult". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jurisconsult.
5. ↑ Falkanger, Thor (8 July 2022). "jurist". in Gisle, Jon. https://snl.no/jurist.

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