Argentina •
Luis Moreno Ocampo •
Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni Australia • Sir
Edmund Barton (judge) • Sir
Garfield Barwick (judge) • Sir
Gerard Brennan (judge) •
Julian Burnside (Queen's Counsel) • Sir
William Deane (judge, Governor-General) • Sir
Owen Dixon (judge) •
Dr H.V. Evatt (judge, politician) •
Robert French (judge) •
Mary Gaudron (judge) • Sir
Harry Gibbs (judge) •
Murray Gleeson (judge) • Sir
Samuel Griffith (judge) •
H.B. Higgins (judge) • Sir
Isaac Isaacs (judge, Governor-General) •
David Ipp (judge) •
Michael Kirby (judge) • Sir
Adrian Knox (judge) • Sir
Anthony Mason (judge) •
Lionel Murphy (judge) •
Richard O'Connor (judge) •
Geoffrey Robertson (Queen's Counsel) • Sir
Ninian Stephen (judge) •
Julius Stone • Sir
Ronald Wilson (judge)
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 •
Eugen Ehrlich, legal sociologist •
Hans Kelsen, Constitutional theorist, draftsman of the
Austrian constitution and creator of the
Pure Theory of Law •
Karl Korinek, former president of the
Austrian Constitutional Court •
Franz von Zeiller, draftsman of the final version of the
Austrian Civil Code of 1811
Bangladesh •
A. K. Fazlul Huq •
Radhabinod Pal •
Syed Mahbub Murshed •
Mustafa Kamal •
Azizul Haque •
Kamal Hossain •
Khatun Sapnara Brazil •
Pimenta Bueno •
Eusébio de Queirós •
Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos •
Cândido Mendes de Almeida •
Viscount of Rio Branco •
Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro •
Rui Barbosa •
Clóvis Beviláqua •
Baron of Rio Branco •
Joaquim Nabuco •
Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto •
Hermes Lima •
Rosa Weber •
San Tiago Dantas •
Evandro Lins e Silva •
Victor Nunes Leal •
Alfredo Buzaid •
Paulo Brossard •
Raymundo Faoro •
Joaquim Barbosa •
Walter Moraes •
Marco Aurélio Mello •
Celso Lafer •
Celso de Mello •
Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda •
Miguel Reale •
Augusto Teixeira de Freitas Brunei •
Geoffrey Briggs Canada •
Rosalie Abella •
Louise Arbour •
Matthew Baillie Begbie •
Denise Bellamy •
William Hume Blake •
Louise Charron •
Henry Pering Pellew Crease •
Brian Dickson •
John Gomery •
Peter Hogg •
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine •
Antonio Lamer •
Bora Laskin •
John McClung •
Beverley McLachlin, first female
Chief Justice of Canada (2000–2017) •
Roy McMurtry •
Louis-Philippe Pigeon •
F. R. Scott, also a poet (Francis Reginald Scott, or Frank Scott) •
Robert Taschereau •
Stephen Waddams Colombia •
Carlos Medellín Forero •
Carlos Lemos Simmonds Cyprus •
Solon Nikitas •
Alecos Markides Czechoslovakia •
Emil Hácha •
František Ladislav Rieger Czech Republic •
Petra Buzková •
Otakar Motejl •
Petr Pithart •
Cyril Svoboda Denmark •
Alf Ross •
Anders Sandøe Ørsted England & Wales •
John Selden •
Sir Francis Bacon •
Sir Redmond Barry, QC •
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 •
Lord Scarman •
Hartley Shawcross •
Lord Templeman •
Lord Woolf •
Lord Mansfield • Sir
Ronald Waterhouse, QC
France •
Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre •
Charles Aubry •
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'' •
Jean-Jacques Gaspard Foelix (1791–1853) founder of the science of
comparative law in France. •
Georges Gurvitch •
Claude Jorda •
Edouard de Laboulaye •
Pierre Mazeaud, president of the
Constitutional Council of France •
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis •
Jean-Paul Beraudo •
Joseph Dallois •
Jean-François Fournel 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 school •
Carl Schmitt, legal theorist •
Bernhard Windscheid, leading drafter of the
BGB •
Reinhold Zippelius, German representative of
critical rationalism in jurisprudence •
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 •
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar •
Mahatma Gandhi •
C. Rajagopalachari •
Chittaranjan Das •
Rajendra Prasad •
B. N. Rau •
Subodh Markandeya •
K. K. Mathew •
Flavia Agnes •
Upendra Baxi •
P. B. Gajendragadkar •
Justice V.R Krishna Iyer •
Ram Jethmalani •
Fali S. Nariman •
N. R. Madhava Menon •
Nanabhoy Palkhivala •
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. N. Srikrishna •
Shamnad Basheer •
M. C. Setalvad •
Mandagadde Rama Jois •
Dr. Faizan Mustafa •
Adish C. Aggarwala Iran •
Shirin Ebadi Ireland •
William Binchy (Regius Professor of Laws in Trinity College, Dublin) •
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) •
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) •
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)
Israel •
Miriam Ben-Porat •
Itzhak Nener •
Gabriela Shalev Italy •
Thomas Aquinas •
Alberico Gentili •
Niccolò Machiavelli •
Giambattista Vico •
Cesare Beccaria •
Francesco Mario Pagano •
Benedetto Marcello •
Francesco Carrara •
Gaetano Filangieri •
Piero Calamandrei •
Francesco Carnelutti •
Pietro della Vigna •
Vincenzo Caianiello •
Francesco Parisi •
Luigi Ferrari Bravo •
Dionisio Anzilotti •
Bettina d'Andrea •
Riccardo Petroni •
Gino Giugni •
Giovanni Conso •
Enrico De Nicola •
Leopoldo Elia •
Marco Biagi •
Giovanni Maria Flick •
Giuliano Vassalli •
Gustavo Zagrebelsky Lebanon • •
Macau •
Sam Hou Fai – Presidente •
Lai Kin Hong – Presidente •
Tam Hio Wa – Presidente dos Tribunais de Primeira Instancia •
Alice Leonor das Neves Costa – Presidente de tribunal colectivo •
Lau Cheok Va – Presidente
Morocco •
Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif (fl.1802–1812), scribe and scholar
The Netherlands •
Hugo Grotius •
Gerhard Diephuis •
Tobias Asser, played major role in the formation of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration, joint recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Peace •
Johannes Bob van Benthem, first president of the
European Patent Office •
Rudolph Cleveringa, professor at
Leiden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier •
Pieter Kooijmans, judge on the
International Court of Justice •
Henry G. Schermers, professor at
Leiden University, founder of
Mordenate College and member of the
European Commission for Human Rights •
Bert Röling, judge on the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo
Pakistan •
Muhammad Iqbal •
Abul A'la Maududi •
Rashid Rehman •
Ali Ahmad Kurd •
Abdul Hafiz Pirzada •
Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan •
Shahid Hamid •
S.M. Zafar •
Mian Tufail Mohammad •
Ashtar Ausaf Ali •
Liaquat Ali Khan •
Ghulam Farooq Awan •
Hina Jilani •
Asma Jahangir •
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri •
Sadiq Khan •
Wasim Sajjad Philippines •
Ricardo C. Puno Portugal •
Medieval Period: •
João Das Regras •
Modern Period: •
Duarte Nunes de Leão •
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo •
Jorge de Cabedo •
Pedro Barbosa •
Belchior Febos •
Liberalism/
Constitucional Monarchy: •
José Homem Correia Teles •
Mouzinho da Silveira •
António Luís de Seabra •
António Bernardo de Costa Cabral •
João Franco •
Manuel da Silva Passos •
José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses •
Henrique O'Neill •
Guerra Junqueiro •
Contemporary Period: •
Manuel de Arriaga •
Ana Maria Guerra Martins •
Januário Lourenço •
José Manuel Hespanha •
José Manuel Durão Barroso •
Jorge Miranda •
José Hermano Saraiva •
José Dias Ferreira •
Isabel de Magalhães Colaço •
Fernando Machado Soares •
António Menezes Cordeiro •
Miguel Sousa Tavares •
Paula Escarameia •
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa •
Maria Lúcia Amaral •
Manuel Lobo Antunes Scotland •
Colin Boyd,
Lord Advocate •
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk,
Lord President of the Court of Session of
Scotland •
Lord Brian Gill,
Lord Justice Clerk of
Scotland • Sir
Neil MacCormick •
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry •
Lord Donald MacArthur Ross Serbia •
Slobodan Jovanović •
Milovan Milovanović •
Jovan Sterija Popović •
Smilja Avramov •
Mirko Vasiljević •
Miodrag Majić Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation) •
Andrey Vyshinsky •
Evgeny Pashukanis • Major-General
Iola Nikitchenko •
Pavel Yudin •
Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij Spain •
Ramón Llàtzer de Dou de Bassols •
Gloria Begué Cantón •
Fèlix Maria Falguera •
Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande •
Baltasar Garzón •
Juan Sempere y Guarinos South Africa •
Mandisa Maya Chief Justice of the
Republic of South Africa •
Raymond Zondo Former Chief Justice of the
Republic of South Africa •
Mogoeng Mogoeng Former Chief Justice of the
Republic of South Africa •
Dikgang Moseneke Former Deputy Chief Justice of the
Republic of South Africa •
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Acting Deputy Chief Justice of the
Republic of South Africa •
Zukisa Tshiqi Justice in the Constitutional Court of the
Republic of South Africa •
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Senior Counsel •
Dali Mpofu Senior Counsel
Sri Lanka •
Christopher Weeramantry •
Mark Fernando •
Neelan Tiruchelvam •
Deepika Udagama Switzerland •
Eugen Huber,
University of Berne, drafter of the
Zivilgesetzbuch, the Swiss Civil Code. •
Walter Kälin 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, Entrepreneur •
Joseph 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,
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