List of jurists

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

Italy

Lebanon

Choucri Cardahi [fr]
Émile Tyan [fr]

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 Leyden University who publicly protested against the removal of Jewish colleagues from the university by the German occupier
Pieter Hendrik 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

Philippines

Ricardo C. Puno

Portugal

Scotland

Serbia

Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)

Spain

Sri Lanka

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
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
Lance Ito (born 1950), judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County
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
Mills Lane (born 1936), judge, Marine, Boxing Referee
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, Supreme Court of the United States

Canon law

Eugenio Corecco—(1931–1995), notable for his contributions to the philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law
John D. Faris—(born 1951), prominent scholar of Eastern Catholic canon law
Pietro Gasparri—(1852–1934), architect of the 1917 Code of Canon Law
Edward N. Peters—(born 1957), Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura (legal consultant to the highest canonical court), prominent scholar of canon law

List of jurists

Premodern

Modern jurists by country

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Bangladesh

Brazil

Brunei

Canada

Colombia

Cyprus

Czechoslovakia

Czech Republic

Denmark

England & Wales

France

Germany

Hong Kong

India

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Lebanon

Macau

Morocco

The Netherlands

Pakistan

Philippines

Portugal

Scotland

Serbia

Russia (Russian Empire - USSR - Russian Federation)

Spain

Sri Lanka

Switzerland

United States

Canon law

International Courts at the Hague