List of jurists

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

Ancient Near East

 * Ur-Nammu
 * Hammurabi

Ancient Egypt

 * Bakenranef

Ancient Israel

 * Solomon

Ancient India

 * Manu
 * Chanakya

Ancient Greece

 * Draco
 * Lycurgus
 * 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

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
 * Phytos Poetis

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

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

 * B. R. Ambedkar
 * 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

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 Leyden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier
 * Pieter Hendrik 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

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
 * 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
 * Lance Ito (born 1950), judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County
 * 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
 * Mills Lane (born 1936), judge, Marine, Boxing Referee
 * 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