The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction. <!-- The Barrister article and elsewhere regards "lawyers" (or forms of them) as jurists; certainly lawyers with additional qualifications beyond mere law degrees to be regarded as jurists. [Not to be confused with lawyers.] -->

Premodern

Ancient Near East

  • Ur-Nammu
  • Hammurabi

Ancient Egypt

  • Bakenranef

Ancient Israel

  • Solomon

Ancient India

  • Manu
  • Chanakya

Ancient Greece

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

Ancient Rome

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

Byzantine Empire

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

Islamic

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

Medieval Roman Law

  • 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

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

Modern jurists by country

Argentina

  • Luis Moreno Ocampo
  • Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni

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

  • 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

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

Brazil

  • 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

  • Geoffrey Briggs

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

Colombia

  • Carlos Medellín Forero
  • Carlos Lemos Simmonds

Cyprus

  • Solon Nikitas
  • Alecos Markides

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

  • 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
  • Jean-François Fournel

Germany

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shirin Ebadi

Ireland

  • 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

  • Miriam Ben-Porat
  • Itzhak Nener
  • Gabriela Shalev

Italy

  • 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

Macau

  • 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

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

The Netherlands

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ricardo C. Puno

Portugal

  • 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

  • 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
  • Jovan Sterija Popović
  • Smilja Avramov
  • Mirko Vasiljević
  • Miodrag Majić

Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)

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

Spain

  • 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

  • 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

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

Switzerland

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

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

  • 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

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

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