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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.

Role

11th-century author, scholar, and diarist from Baghdad

11th-century merchant, jurist, and muhaddith

11th-century North African Islamic theologian and jurist

12th Chief Justice of New Zealand

12th-century Iraqi Arab official and a Hanbali jurist

14th century Hanbali jurist and Muhaddith from the Levant

14th-century Arab Muslim scholar

14th-century Swedish magnate and High Constable of Sweden

17th Chief Justice of Canada

19th-century French politician of the French Third Republic

20th Chief Justice of Pakistan

21st Chief Justice of Bangladesh

21st Chief Justice of South Africa

2nd President of the International Criminal Court

3rd Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong

43rd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis

8th-century CE Libyan Muslim jurist from Tripoli

Academic and lawyer

Academic, currently

Academic, diplomat and statesman

Academic, humanitarian and human rights activist

Academician, legal scholar, Professor of International law

Advocate and Judge

Advocate General of Yangon Region

African-American lawyer

American jurist

-American lawyer

American legal scholar

Ancient Roman jurist and writer

And British international human rights lawyer

And British social anthropologist

And international judge and legal academic

And Soviet criminologist and legal historian

And Soviet jurist

Andalusī Muslim judge and scholar with Ṣūfī tendencies

Andalusí Sunni Islamic scholar

Andalusian Muslim polymath from Córdoba in Al-Andalus

Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian

Arab historian and Shāfiʿī jurist

Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar

Arab Mālikī faqīh (jurist) of Medina

Arab poet, logician, astronomer and Maliki jurist

Arab Sunni Islamic scholar from the 15th century

Arab Sunni scholar from Baghdad

Archbishop of Seville and scholar

Archbishop of York

Assistant Librarian, Library of Congress

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Athenian lawgiver (thesmothete)

Attorney and politician

Attorney and professor

Attorney General of Bolivia

Attorney General of Costa Rica

Attorney General of Croatia, 2014-2018

Attorney General of Egypt

Attorney General of Grenada

Attorney General of Mozambique

Attorney General of Nepal

Attorney General of New York

Attorney General of Nicaragua

Attorney General of Palau

Attorney General of Panama

Attorney General of Paraguay

Attorney General of Peru

Attorney, Supreme Court Justice, politician and professor

Austrian lawyer

Author, politician, and judge

Authority in civil and canon law

Barrister

Barrister and academic, specialising in international law

Barrister and former judge on the Caribbean Court of Justice

Barrister and judge

Barrister and jurist

Barrister and lawyer

Barrister and leading authority in international law

Barrister and politician

Barrister and senior colonial judge