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Born Between c.1115 and 1120 • Lombardy • Italy
Died After 1198 • England
Notable Works “Liber pauperum”
Subjects Of Study Code of Justinian • Codex Constitutionum • Pandects • Roman law • canon law
Tribonian
Byzantine legal scholar
Irnerius
Italian legal scholar
Martinus Gosia
Italian jurist
Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
Dorotheus
Roman jurist
Jacques Cujas
French jurist and scholar
Alberico Gentili
Italian jurist
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
English legal scholar
Eduard Gans
German jurist
Sir Henry Maine.
Sir Henry Maine
British jurist, historian, and anthropologist
Gaius
Gaius
Roman jurist
Sir John Fortescue
English jurist
Marcus Antistius Labeo
Roman jurist
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
German jurist
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman law scholar [died 82 BCE]
Ulpian
Roman jurist
Papinian
Papinian
Roman jurist