List of jurists - Definition and Overview

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

Antiquity

• Cicero
• Gaius
• Hammurabi
• Solomon
• Solon
• Pontius Pilate
• Ulpianus

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 Genevieve Gaudron (judge)
• Harry Gibbs (judge)
• Samuel Griffith (judge)
• Henry Bournes Higgins (judge)
• Isaac Isaacs (judge)
• Michael Kirby (judge)
• Adrian Knox (judge)
• Anthony Mason (judge)
• Lionel Keith Murphy (judge)
• Richard O'Connor (judge)
• Ninian Stephen (judge)
• Geoffrey Robertson (Queen's Counsel)
• 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

• Louise Arbour
• Brian Dickson
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
• Antonio Lamer
• Bora Laskin
• Beverly McLachlin, current (2000-) Chief Justice of Canada
• 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

Fictional

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

France

• Jean-Louis Bruguière
• Claude Jorda
• Roger Le Loire
• 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)

International Court of Justice at the Hague

• Claude Jorda
• Luis Moreno Ocampo
• Carla del Ponte

See also International Criminal Court

Iran

• Mohammad Ali-Saffari
• Sadeq Khalkhali

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.