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Flourished c.501 - c.550
Subjects Of Study jurisprudence • Basilica • Codex Constitutionum • Institutes • Pandects
Tribonian
Byzantine legal scholar
Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
Vacarius
Roman law scholar
Ulpian
Roman jurist
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
United States jurist
William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone
English jurist
Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
president and chief justice of United States
Robert H. Bork
Robert H. Bork
United States jurist
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan
Tanya Sue Chutkan
American lawyer and jurist
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
H.L.A. Hart
English philosopher, teacher, and author
Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
English legal scholar
John Austin
English jurist
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Basil I, coin, 9th century; in the British Museum.
Basil I
Byzantine emperor
David Hackett Souter
United States jurist
John Jay
John Jay
United States statesman and chief justice
Matthews, Stanley
Stanley Matthews
United States jurist