List of jurists
The following lists are of prominent jurists, including judges, listed in alphabetical order by jurisdiction. == Premodern == === Ancient Near East === Ur-Nammu Hammurabi === Ancient Egypt === Bakenranef === Ancient Israel === Solomon === Ancient India === Manu Chanakya === Ancient Greece === Draco Bias of Priene Lycurgus Lysias Solon Zaleucus Charondas Demonax Diagoras of Melos === Ancient Rome === Numa Pompilius Gaius Terentilius Harsa Marcus Tullius Cicero Gaius Herennius Modestinus Aemilius Papinianus Paulus Domitius Ulpianus Pamphilus of Caesarea Sozomen === Byzantine Empire === Enantiophanes Tribonian Dorotheus Theophilus Antecessor Michael Choumnos Theodore of Dekapolis Anastasius === Islamic === Muhammad Abu Hanifa Malik ibn Anas Al-Shafi‘i Ahmad ibn Hanbal Al-Ghazali Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Khaldun === Medieval Roman Law === Glossators: Irnerius Four Doctors of Bologna: Bulgarus Martinus Gosia Jacobus de Boragine Hugo de Porta Ravennate Placentinus Azo of Bologna Accursius Franciscus Accursius Joannes Bassianus Tancred of Bologna Bernard of Botone Cino da Pistoia Bartolus de Saxoferrato Baldus de Ubaldis Matteo D'Afflitto === Canon law === Saint Photios the Great Gratian (the Monk) John Scholasticus John Gascoigne Johann Georg Reiffenstuel == Modern jurists by country == === 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.