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Role

This dimension sorts jurists by the specific role they held, a judge, a legal scholar or a practicing lawyer. Wikipedia notes that the term jurist "can refer to a legal scholar, a judge, or a lawyer" depending on jurisdiction. Browsing by role compares jurists who did the same kind of legal work.

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Defining Characteristic

Civil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code. 1

Role

19th-century French politician of the French Third Republic

Academic, humanitarian and human rights activist

-American lawyer

Attorney and politician

Authority in civil and canon law

Barrister and politician

-British barrister and legal scholar

Canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende

Catholic militant, theorist of society and politician

Diplomat and Lawyer

Feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist

Feyli Kurdish lawyer

German notary and colonial official

Historian and jurisconsult

inventor of Anno Domini (AD) dating

Juridical expert and social theorist

Jurist

Jurist and Catholic prelate

Jurist and Church historian as well as a theologian

Jurist and civil servant

Jurist and classical-liberal politician

Jurist and glossator

Jurist and law historian

Jurist and law publisher

Jurist and lawyer

Jurist and lawyer in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands

Jurist and legal historian

Jurist and philosopher of law

Jurist and poet

Jurist and politician

Jurist and statesman

Jurist and writer

Jurist from Bologna

Jurist of Jewish descent

Jurist of the 14th century

Jurist, historian, librarian and rhetorician

Jurist, judge and academic

Jurist, professor, and politician

Jurist, Roman Law scholar, philosopher and theologian

Law scholar

Lawyer

Lawyer and authority in administrative law

Lawyer and diplomat

Lawyer and diplomat from Bahrain

Lawyer and economist, notary

Lawyer and judge

Lawyer and jurist

Lawyer and notary

Lawyer and politician

Lawyer and teacher of state church law

Lawyer, judge, revolutionary, and legislator

Lawyer, musician, feminist, and appointed Senator

Lawyer, notary and art collector

Lawyer, politician and jurist

Legal expert

Legal Scholar

Legal scholar and historian

Legal scholar and liberal parliamentarian

Medieval German administrator

Moldavian-born Romanian historian, jurist, and journalist

Notary (first woman notary in Belgium)

Notary and administrator

Notary and historian

Notary, lawyer

Ottoman Islamic scholar (ʿālim), jurist, judge, and diplomat

Patriarch of Constantinople

Politician

Politician and lawyer

Politician and women's rights activist

Professor of Jurisprudence

Public lawyer

Public notary and publisher

Retired magistrate of the Public Prosecution Service

Saxon nobleman, jurist and prelate of the Holy Roman Empire

Scholar, writer, public figure, thinker, and priest

Senior judge and writer on law of the Byzantine Empire

Statesman

Twelfth-century Italian jurist, born in Bologna