List of jurists

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

"Main article Jurists"

Antiquity

* Hammurabi
* Solomon

* Ancient India
** 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

Austria-Hungary

* František Ladislav Rieger

Brazil

*Marquess of Sapucaí
*Viscount of Jequitinhonha
*Marquess of Paraná
*Pimenta Bueno
*Eusébio de Queirós
*Baron of Uruguaiana
*José Tomás Nabuco de Araújo
*Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos
*Baron of Penedo
*Cândido Mendes de Almeida
*Viscount of Rio Branco
*Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro
* Rui Barbosa
* Clóvis Beviláqua
*Baron of Rio Branco
*Joaquim Nabuco
*João Mendes de Almeida Júnior
*Pedro Lessa
*Edmundo Muniz Barreto
*Antônio Evaristo de Morais
*Antônio Evaristo de Morais Filho
*Carlos Maximiliano
*José de Alcântara Machado
*Eduardo Spínola
*Levi Carneiro
*Francisco Luís da Silva Campos
*Nelson Hungria
*Orozimbo Nonato
*Sobral Pinto
*Hahnemann Guimarães
*Hermes Lima
*José de Aguiar Dias
*Orlando Gomes
*Washington de Barros Monteiro
*San Tiago Dantas
*Evandro Lins e Silva
*Caio Mário da Silva Pereira
*Maria Helena Diniz
*Victor Nunes Leal
*Alfredo Buzaid
*Goffredo da Silva Telles Júnior
*Hely Lopes Meirelles
*Rubens Gomes de Sousa
*Sílvio Rodrigues
*Arnaldo Süssekind
*Paulo Brossard
*Raymundo Faoro
*Roberto Lyra Filho
*Sydney Sanches
*Sepúlveda Pertence
*Joaquim Barbosa
*José Cretella Júnior
*Paulo Nader
*Cândido Rangel Dinamarco
*Ada Pellegrini
*Tourinho Filho
*Walter Moraes
*Antônio Carlos de Araújo Cintra
*Marco Aurélio Mello
* Celso Lafer
* Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
* Miguel Reale
* Augusto Teixeira de Freitas

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

Czechoslovakia

*Emil Hácha

Czech Republic

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

Denmark

*Alf Ross
*Anders Sandøe Ørsted

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 Denning, 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)
* Charles Ching
* Denys Roberts
* Robert Ribeiro
* George Phillippo
* Yang Ti-liang
* Patrick Yu

India

* Shekhar Bhargava
* Flavia Agnes
* Upendra Baxi
* Justice P. B. Gajendragadkar
* 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
* Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
* Justice Y. V. Chandrachud
* Radhabinod Pal
* Hari Singh Gour
* B. R. Ambedkar
* B. N. Srikrishna
* Mandagadde Rama Jois

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

Macau

* Sam Hou Fai - Presidente
* Chu Kin - Juizes
* Virato Manuel Pinheiro de Lima - Juizes
* Lai Kin Hong - Presidente
* Choi Mou Pan - Juizes
* Jose Maria Dias Azedo - Juizes
* Chan Kuong Seng - Juizes
* Joao Augusto Goncalves Gil de Oliveira - Juizes
* Tam Hio Wa - Presidente dos Tribunais de Primeira Instancia
* Alice Leonor das Neves Costa - Presidente de tribunal colectivo
* Fong Man Chong - Juizes de tribunal colectivo
* Chao Im Peng - Juizes de tribunal colectivo
* Mario Augosto Silvestre - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Ip Son Sang - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Tong Hio Fong - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Lam Peng Fai - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Cheong Un Mei - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Sam Keng Tan - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Teresa Leong - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Alvaro Antonio Mangas Abreu Dantas - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Fernando Miguel Furtado Andre Alves - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Ip Sio Fan - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Kan Cheng Ha - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Lou Ieng Ha - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Jeronimo Alberto Goncalves Santos - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Margarida Alexanda de Meira Pinto Gomes - Juízes de tribunal singular
* Paulo Chan - Juizes
* Leong Fong Meng - Juizes
* Ho Wai Neng - Juiz
* Lai Kin Hong - Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
* Mario Augosto Silvestre - Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
* Philip Xaiver - Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
* Anabela Sales Ritchie - Membro de Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais
* Lau Cheok Va - Presidente
* Hoi Sai Iun - Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
* Vitor Ng - Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
* Ieong Wan Chong - Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
* Philip Xavier - Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes
* Ho Ten Iat - Membro de Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes

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

cotland

* 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

oviet Union & Russian Federation

* Major-General Iola Nikitchenko
* Gabriel Shershenevich

pain

* Baltasar Garzón

ri Lanka

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

witzerland

* Eugen Huber, University of Berne, drafter of the Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code.
* Jörg Paul Müller, prominent human rights theorist
* Walter Kälin [http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/membersCVs/kalin.htm]

Ukraine

*O.A. Shalimov jurist
*O.A. Dzubenko jurist

United States

* 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
* 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
* 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

:"See also: Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States"

International Courts at the Hague

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

:"See also: International Criminal Court"