List of jurists

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

Antiquity

• Hammurabi
• Solomon
  • 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)
• H.V. Evatt (judge)
• Mary Gaudron (judge)
• Harry Gibbs (judge)
• Samuel Griffith (judge)
• Henry 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)
• Malcolm Turnbull (Queen's Counsel)

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 creater 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

Brunei

• Geoffrey Briggs
• Mohamed Saied

Canada

• Rosalie Abella
• Louise Arbour
• Denise Bellamy
• Louise Charron
• Brian Dickson
• John Gomery
• 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

England

• Sir Francis Bacon
• Sir Redmond Barry
• 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
• William Pitt
• Lord Scarman
• Hartley Shawcross
• Lord Templeman
• Lord Woolf
• Lord Mansfield

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
• 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)

Iran

• Mohammad Ali-Saffari
• Sadeq Khalkhali
• Shirin Ebadi

Lebanon

• Mohammad Mughrabi

Soviet Union & Russian Federation

• Major-General Iola Nikitchenko

Spain

• Baltasar Garzón

Switzerland

• Eugen Huber , drafter of the Swiss Zivilgesetzbuch

United States

• Roy Bean
• William Brennan
• Louis Brandeis
• Warren E. Burger
• Clarence Darrow
• Mark J. Geragos
• Learned Hand
• John Marshall Harlan
• Patrick Henry
• Lance Ito
• John Jay
• John Marshall
• Thurgood Marshall
• Richard Posner
• Joseph Story
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• Earl Warren
• William Wirt

• See also: Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

International Court of Justice at the Hague

• Claude Jorda
• Luis Moreno Ocampo
• Carla del Ponte

See also International Criminal Court

Fictional

• Ally McBeal
• Perry Mason
• Vinny Gambini from the movie My Cousin Vinny