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

Contents [hide] 1 Antiquity 2 Modern jurists by country 2.1 Argentina 2.2 Australia 2.3 Austria 2.4 Brazil 2.5 Brunei 2.6 Canada 2.7 Colombia 2.8 Cyprus 2.9 England & Wales 2.10 France 2.11 Germany 2.12 Hong Kong 2.13 India 2.14 Iran 2.15 Ireland 2.16 Lebanon 2.17 The Netherlands 2.18 Scotland 2.19 Soviet Union & Russian Federation 2.20 Spain 2.21 Sri Lanka 2.22 Switzerland 2.23 United States 3 International Courts at the Hague

Antiquity

• Hammurabi
• Solomon
• Manu
• Chanakya
  • Ancient Greece:
    • Draco
    • Solon
  • Ancient Rome:
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • Gaius
    • Herennius Modestinus
    • Aemilius Papinianus
    • Paulus
    • Paulus Catena
    • Tribonian
    • Domitius Ulpianus

Modern jurists by country

Argentina

• Luis Moreno Ocampo

Australia

• Edmund Barton (judge)
• Garfield Barwick (judge)
• Gerard Brennan (judge)
• Julian Burnside (Queen's Counsel)
• William Deane (judge)
• Owen Dixon (judge)
• Dr H.V. Evatt (judge)
• Mary Gaudron (judge)
• Harry Gibbs (judge)
• Samuel Griffith (judge)
• H.B. 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)
• Sir Ronald Wilson (judge)

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
• 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 creator 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

[edit] Brazil

• Fabio Konder Comparato
• José Reinaldo Lima Lopes
• Miguel Reale
• Ruy Barbosa

Brunei

• Geoffrey Briggs
• Mohamed Saied

Canada

• Rosalie Abella
• Louise Arbour
• Matthew Baillie Begbie
• Denise Bellamy
• Louise Charron
• Henry Pering Pellew Crease
• Brian Dickson
• John Gomery
• Peter Hogg
• 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
• Stephen Waddams

Colombia

• Arturo Valencia Zea
• Luis Carlos Sáchica Aponte
• José Roberto Herrera Vergara
• Vladimiro Naranjo
• Hernando Morales Molina
• Carlos Medellín
• Alfonso Reyes Echandía
• Carlos Lemos Simmonds
• Jorge Eliecer Gaitán
• Francisco de Paula Santander
• Alejandro Bonivento
• Fernando Hinestroza

Cyprus

• Michalakis A. Triantafyllides
• Andreas N. Loizou
• Georghios M. Pikis
• Solon Nikitas
• Alecos Markides
• Criton G. Tornaritis

England & Wales

• Lord Colum M Connolly, Earl of Gower, QC CBE
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Sir Redmond Barry, QC
• Sir William Blackstone
• Lord Browne-Wilkinson
• Sir Edward Coke
• Lord Dennin, KVQ OVQ KBE
• Albert Venn Dicey
• Sir Matthew Hale
• Lord Hutton
• Lord Goff of Chieveley
• Thomas More
• Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest
• William Pitt KBE
• Lord Scarman OBE
• Hartley Shawcross
• Lord Templeman
• Lord Woolf
• Lord Mansfield
• Sir Ronald Waterhouse, QC

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)

India

• Flavia Agnes
• Upendra Baxi
• Justice Gajendragatkar
• Justice V.R Krishna Iyer
• Ram Jethmalani
• N. R. Madhava Menon
• Nani Palkivalah
• S.P Sathe
• Justice P.N Bhagwati
• B.S.Chimni
• M.P.Singh
• K.N.Chandrasekharan Pillai

Iran

• Mohammad Ali-Saffari
• Sadeq Khalkhali
• Shirin Ebadi

Ireland

• William Binchy (Regius Professor of Laws in Trinity College, Dublin)
• James Casey (Professor)
• 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)
• Séamus Henchy (former 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)
• Finbarr McAuley (Professor)
• Patrick McEntee (Senior Counsel)
• 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)
• Brian Walsh (late Judge of the Supreme Court)
• Gerard Whyte (Professor in Trinity College, co-editor of the later editions of "J.M. Kelly: The Irish Constitution")

Lebanon

• Mohammad Mughrabi

The Netherlands

• Hugo Grotius, laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law.
• Tobias Asser, played major role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, cowinner 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 made public protest against the removal of Jewish personal from the university by the German occupier
• Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans, Judge on the International Court of Justice
• Bernard Victor Aloysius Röling, Judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo

Scotland

• Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland
• Lord Brian Gill, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland
• Lord Donald MacArthur Ross
• Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
• Colin Boyd, Lord Advocate

Soviet Union & Russian Federation

• Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
• Gabriel Shershenevich

Spain

• Baltasar Garzón

Sri Lanka

• Radhika Coomarawsamy
• Rohan Edrisinghe
• Mark Fernando
• Savitri Goonasekere
• Neelan Tiruchelvam
• Deepika Udagama

Switzerland

• Eugen Huber, University of Berne, drafter of the Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code.
• Jörg Paul Müller, prominent human rights theorist
• Walter Kälin [1]

United States

• Roy Bean (1825 – 1903), judge, Pecos County, Texas
• 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 (1951), judge, Lake County, Ohio
• Felix Frankfurter (1882 – 1965), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
• Jim Garrison (1921 – 1992), New Orleans District Attorney
• Henry Friendly (1903 – 1986), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), 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
• Judge Peggy Fulton Hora, Superior Court of California, Alameda County
• Lance Ito (1950), judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County
• John Jay (1745 – 1829), Chief Justice of the United States
• Alex Kozinski (1950), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Mills Lane (1936), judge, Marine, Boxing Referee
• Hans A. Linde (1924), 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
• Richard Posner (1939), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Joseph Story (1779 – 1845), Chief Justice 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

International Courts at the Hague

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