List of jurists
The following lists are of prominent jurists , including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction .
Premodern
Modern jurists by country
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Brazil
Brunei
Canada
Colombia
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
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 schoolCarl Schmitt , legal theoristBernhard Windscheid , leading drafter of the BGB Reinhold Zippelius , German representative of critical rationalism in jurisprudenceRobert Alexy
Hong Kong
India
Iran
Ireland
Israel
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Italy
Lebanon
Macau
Morocco
The Netherlands
Pakistan
Philippines
Portugal
Scotland
Serbia
Spain
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
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, EntrepreneurJoseph 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
International Courts at the Hague
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