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

## Premodern

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### Ancient Near East

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* Ur-Nammu
* Hammurabi

### Ancient Egypt

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* Bakenranef

### Ancient Israel

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* Solomon

### Ancient India

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* Manu
* Chanakya

### Ancient Greece

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* Draco
* Bias of Priene
* Lycurgus
* Lysias
* Solon
* Zaleucus
* Charondas
* Demonax
* Diagoras of Melos

### Ancient Rome

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* Numa Pompilius
* Gaius Terentilius Harsa
* Marcus Tullius Cicero
* Gaius
* Herennius Modestinus
* Aemilius Papinianus
* Paulus
* Domitius Ulpianus
* Pamphilus of Caesarea
* Sozomen

### Byzantine Empire

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* Enantiophanes
* Tribonian
* Dorotheus
* Theophilus Antecessor
* Michael Choumnos
* Theodore of Dekapolis
* Anastasius

### Islamic

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* Muhammad
* Abu Hanifa
* Malik ibn Anas
* Al-Shafi‘i
* Ahmad ibn Hanbal
* Al-Ghazali
* Ibn Taymiyyah
* Ibn Khaldun

### Medieval Roman Law

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* Glossators:
* Irnerius
* Four Doctors of Bologna:
* Bulgarus
* Martinus Gosia
* Jacobus de Boragine
* Hugo de Porta Ravennate
* Placentinus
* Azo of Bologna
* Accursius
* Franciscus Accursius
* Joannes Bassianus
* Tancred of Bologna
* Bernard of Botone
* Cino da Pistoia
* Bartolus de Saxoferrato
* Baldus de Ubaldis
* Matteo D'Afflitto

### Canon law

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* Saint Photios the Great
* Gratian (the Monk)
* John Scholasticus
* John Gascoigne
* Johann Georg Reiffenstuel

## Modern jurists by country

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### Argentina

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* Luis Moreno Ocampo
* Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni

### Australia

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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

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* 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
* Eugen Ehrlich, legal sociologist
* Hans Kelsen, Constitutional theorist, draftsman of the Austrian constitution and creator of the Pure Theory of Law
* Karl Korinek, former president of the Austrian Constitutional Court
* Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the Austrian Civil Code of 1811

### Bangladesh

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* A. K. Fazlul Huq
* Radhabinod Pal
* Syed Mahbub Murshed
* Mustafa Kamal
* Azizul Haque
* Kamal Hossain
* Khatun Sapnara

### Brazil

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* Pimenta Bueno
* Eusébio de Queirós
* Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos
* Cândido Mendes de Almeida
* Viscount of Rio Branco
* Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro
* Rui Barbosa
* Clóvis Beviláqua
* Baron of Rio Branco
* Joaquim Nabuco
* Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto
* Hermes Lima
* Rosa Weber
* San Tiago Dantas
* Evandro Lins e Silva
* Victor Nunes Leal
* Alfredo Buzaid
* Paulo Brossard
* Raymundo Faoro
* Joaquim Barbosa
* Walter Moraes
* Marco Aurélio Mello
* Celso Lafer
* Celso de Mello
* Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
* Miguel Reale
* Augusto Teixeira de Freitas

### Brunei

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* Geoffrey Briggs

### Canada

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* 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 (2000–2017)
* Roy McMurtry
* Louis-Philippe Pigeon
* F. R. Scott, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott)
* Robert Taschereau
* Stephen Waddams

### Colombia

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* Carlos Medellín Forero
* Carlos Lemos Simmonds

### Cyprus

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* Solon Nikitas
* Alecos Markides

### Czechoslovakia

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* Emil Hácha
* František Ladislav Rieger

### Czech Republic

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* Petra Buzková
* Otakar Motejl
* Petr Pithart
* Cyril Svoboda

### Denmark

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* Alf Ross
* Anders Sandøe Ørsted

### England & Wales

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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

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* Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre
* 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 (1791–1853) founder of the science of comparative law in France.
* Georges Gurvitch
* Claude Jorda
* Edouard de Laboulaye
* Pierre Mazeaud, president of the Constitutional Council of France
* Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
* Jean-Paul Beraudo
* Joseph Dallois

### Germany

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* Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, leading drafter of the modern Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
* Philipp Heck, representative of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz)
* Roman Herzog, President of the German Constitutional Court and later President of Germany
* es: Günther Jakobs
* Rudolf von Jhering, founder of sociological jurisprudence (Interessenjurisprudenz)
* Hermann Kantorowicz, proponent of the Free Law School (Freirechtslehre)
* Burkard Wilhelm Leist (1819–1906)
* Richard Rosendorff (fl. 1875–1941)
* Claus Roxin, founder of the "Tatherrschaftslehre"
* 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

### Hong Kong

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

### India

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* Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
* Mahatma Gandhi
* C. Rajagopalachari
* Chittaranjan Das
* Rajendra Prasad
* B. N. Rau
* Subodh Markandeya
* K. K. Mathew
* Flavia Agnes
* Upendra Baxi
* P. B. Gajendragadkar
* Justice V.R Krishna Iyer
* Ram Jethmalani
* Fali S. Nariman
* N. R. Madhava Menon
* Nanabhoy Palkhivala
* Justice P. N. Bhagwati
* B.S. Chimni
* M.P. Singh
* K N Chandrasekharan Pillai
* Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
* Justice Y. V. Chandrachud
* Radhabinod Pal
* Hari Singh Gour
* B. N. Srikrishna
* Shamnad Basheer
* M. C. Setalvad
* Mandagadde Rama Jois
* Dr. Faizan Mustafa
* Adish C. Aggarwala

### Iran

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* Shirin Ebadi

### Ireland

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* 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

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* Miriam Ben-Porat
* Itzhak Nener
* Gabriela Shalev

### Italy

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For more Italian jurists, see Category:Italian jurists.

* Thomas Aquinas
* Alberico Gentili
* Niccolò Machiavelli
* 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
* Giovanni Conso
* Enrico De Nicola
* Leopoldo Elia
* Marco Biagi
* Giovanni Maria Flick
* Giuliano Vassalli
* Gustavo Zagrebelsky

### Lebanon

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* Choucri Cardahi [fr]
* Émile Tyan [fr]

### Macau

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* Sam Hou Fai – Presidente
* Lai Kin Hong – Presidente
* Tam Hio Wa – Presidente dos Tribunais de Primeira Instancia
* Alice Leonor das Neves Costa – Presidente de tribunal colectivo
* Lau Cheok Va – Presidente

### Morocco

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* Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif (fl.1802–1812), scribe and scholar

### The Netherlands

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* Hugo Grotius
* Gerhard Diephuis
* 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 Leiden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier
* Pieter 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

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* Muhammad Iqbal
* Abul A'la Maududi
* Rashid Rehman
* Ali Ahmad Kurd
* Abdul Hafiz Pirzada
* Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
* Shahid Hamid
* S.M. Zafar
* Mian Tufail Mohammad
* Ashtar Ausaf Ali
* Liaquat Ali Khan
* Ghulam Farooq Awan
* Hina Jilani
* Asma Jahangir
* Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
* Sadiq Khan
* Wasim Sajjad

### Philippines

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* Ricardo C. Puno

### Portugal

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* Medieval Period:
* João Das Regras
* Modern Period:
* Duarte Nunes de Leão
* Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo
* Jorge de Cabedo
* Pedro Barbosa
* Belchior Febos
* Liberalism/Constitucional Monarchy:
* José Homem Correia Teles
* Mouzinho da Silveira
* António Luís de Seabra
* António Bernardo de Costa Cabral
* João Franco
* Manuel da Silva Passos
* José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses
* Henrique O'Neill
* Guerra Junqueiro
* Contemporary Period:
* Manuel de Arriaga
* Ana Maria Guerra Martins
* Januário Lourenço
* José Manuel Hespanha
* José Manuel Durão Barroso
* Jorge Miranda
* José Hermano Saraiva
* José Dias Ferreira
* Isabel de Magalhães Colaço
* Fernando Machado Soares
* António Menezes Cordeiro
* Miguel Sousa Tavares
* Paula Escarameia
* Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
* Maria Lúcia Amaral
* Manuel Lobo Antunes

### Scotland

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2016)

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* 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

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* Slobodan Jovanović
* Milovan Milovanović
* Jovan Sterija Popović
* Smilja Avramov
* Mirko Vasiljević
* Miodrag Majić

### Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)

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* Andrey Vyshinsky
* Evgeny Pashukanis
* Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
* Pavel Yudin
* Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij

### Spain

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* Ramón Llàtzer de Dou de Bassols
* Gloria Begué Cantón
* Fèlix Maria Falguera
* Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande
* Baltasar Garzón
* Juan Sempere y Guarinos

### South Africa

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* Mandisa Maya Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
* Raymond Zondo Former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
* Mogoeng Mogoeng Former Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
* Dikgang Moseneke Former Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
* Mbuyiseli Madlanga Acting Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa
* Zukisa Tshiqi Justice in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa
* Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Senior Counsel
* Dali Mpofu Senior Counsel

### Sri Lanka

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* Christopher Weeramantry
* Mark Fernando
* Neelan Tiruchelvam
* Deepika Udagama

### Switzerland

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* Eugen Huber, University of Berne, drafter of the Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code.
* Walter Kälin

### United States

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See also: List of 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 Professor Georgetown 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
* John Bannister Gibson (1780-1853), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
* 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
* John Jay (1745–1829), Chief Justice of the United States
* Anthony Kennedy (born 1936), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
* Alex Kozinski (born 1950), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
* 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

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* Eugenio Corecco—(1931–1995), notable for his contributions to the philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law
* John D. Faris—(born 1951), prominent scholar of Eastern Catholic canon law
* Pietro Gasparri—(1852–1934), architect of the 1917 Code of Canon Law
* Edward N. Peters—(born 1957), Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura (legal consultant to the highest canonical court), prominent scholar of canon law

## International Courts at the Hague

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See also: International Criminal Court

* Bruno Simma
* Claude Jorda
* Rosalyn Higgins
* Luis Moreno Ocampo
* Carla Del Ponte