Biographies: Selected Jurists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Selected Jurists

Ames, James Barr, American jurist
Anson, Sir William Reynell, English jurist
Austin, John, English jurist
Barbosa, Ruy, Brazilian jurist
Beaumanoir, Philippe de Remi, French poet and jurist, a writer of medieval law texts
Berle, Adolf Augustus, Jr., American lawyer and public official
Binney, Horace, American lawyer
Blackstone, Sir William, English jurist
Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar, Swiss jurist and political scientist
Bouvier, John, American writer on law
Bracton, Henry de, English writer on law
Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques, Swiss jurist
Bustamante, Antonio Sánchez de, Cuban authority on international law
Bynkershoek, Cornelius van, Dutch writer on international law
Choate, Joseph Hodges, American lawyer and diplomat
Choate, Rufus, American lawyer and Congressman
Clark, Walter, American jurist
Cook, David J., American law enforcement officer
Coudert, Frederic René, American lawyer and public official
Cujas or Cujacius, Jacques, French jurist and scholar of Roman law
Curtis, George Ticknor, American lawyer and writer
Cushing, Luther Stearns, American lawyer
Darrow, Clarence Seward, American lawyer
Davis, George Breckenridge, American army officer and jurist
Domat, Jean, French jurist
Durandus, Gulielmus, French canon jurist and theologian
Dwight, Theodore William, American lawyer
Dworkin, Ronald, American legal philosopher
Emmet, Thomas Addis, Irish-American lawyer
Evarts, William Maxwell, American lawyer and statesman
Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm von, German jurist
Field, David Dudley, American lawyer and law reformer
Field, Stephen Johnson, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Fortescue, Sir John, English jurist
Fuller, Melville Weston, American jurist
Gaius, Roman jurist
Garland, Merrick, Court of Appeals judge nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court
Gentili, Alberico, Italian writer on international law
Gibson, John Bannister, American jurist
Glanvill, Ranulf de, English jurist
Gray, Horace, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Gray, John Chipman, American lawyer and teacher
Greenleaf, Simon, American legal writer
Grotius, Hugo, Dutch jurist and humanist
Hale, Sir Matthew, English jurist
Hand, Learned, American jurist
Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus, British legal philosopher
Hays, Arthur Garfield, American lawyer
Higginbotham, Leon A., American judge, historian
Hillquit, Morris, American lawyer and Socialist leader
Holdsworth, Sir William Searle, British legal historian
Ingersoll, Jared, American jurist
Iredell, James, American jurist
Irnerius, Italian jurist
Jessup, Philip Caryl, American authority on international law
Johnson, Reverdy, American lawyer and statesman
Kellogg, Frank Billings, American lawyer, U.S. Senator
Kent, James, American jurist
La Fontaine, Henri, Belgian jurist and statesman
Langdell, Christopher Columbus, American teacher of law
Lawrence, William Beach, American political leader and jurist
Littleton, Sir Thomas, English jurist
Maitland, Frederic William, English legal historian
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of, English jurist
Martens, Feodor, Russian diplomat and authority on international law
Martens, Georg Friedrich von, German writer on international law
Martin, Luther, American lawyer and political leader
May, Thomas Erskine, English constitutional jurist and historian
Modestinus, Herennius, Roman jurist
Moore, John Bassett, American authority on international law
Papinian, Roman jurist
Parker, Alton Brooks, American jurist
Paulus, Roman jurist
Pendleton, Edmund, American jurist
Phelps, Edward John, American lawyer and diplomat
Pollock, Sir Frederick, English jurist
Pound, Roscoe, American jurist
Pufendorf, Samuel, Baron von, German jurist and historian
Renault, Louis, French jurist
Romilly, Sir Samuel, English law reformer
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von, German jurist and legal historian
Scott, James Brown, American lawyer and educator
Seabury, Samuel, American jurist
Selden, John, English jurist and scholar
Shaw, Lemuel, American jurist
Srinivasan, Sri, Indian-born U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the D.C. Circuit
Stair, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount, Scottish jurist
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, English jurist and journalist
Stewart, William Morris, American lawyer and political leader
Stone, Harlan Fiske, American jurist
Storey, Moorfield, American lawyer
Story, Joseph, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Tracy, Benjamin Franklin, American lawyer, cabinet member, and soldier
Traynor, Roger John, American jurist
Tribonian, Roman jurist
Ulpian, Roman jurist
Warren, Charles, American lawyer and historian
Wharton, Francis, American clergyman and lawyer
Wheaton, Henry, American jurist and diplomat
Wickersham, George Woodward, American lawyer and government official
Wigmore, John Henry, American legal educator
Wilson, James, American jurist
Wythe, George, American lawyer
Zaleucus, Greek lawgiver