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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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Role

21st Chief Justice of South Africa

Author, politician, and judge

Barrister, solicitor and jurist

Botswana judge

Botswana lawyer and judge

Cape lawyer and judge

Chief Justice

Chief Justice of Botswana, 2010 to 2018

Chief Justice of Malawi

Chief Justice of South Africa

Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Namibia

Chief Justice of Uganda

Court of Appeal Judge

Diplomat and jurist

Diplomat and politician

First President of the Court of Cassation of Morocco

Former Chief Justice of Kenya

Former Chief Justice of South Africa (1989-1996)

Former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Judge

Judge and a former Chief Justice of Ghana

Judge and Chief Justice

Judge and Jurist

Judge and lawyer

Judge and politician

Judge and professor

Judge at the Kogi State Judiciary from January 1990 to 2007

Judge in the judiciary of Saudi Arabia

Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Judge, jurist, and diplomat

Jurist

Jurist and academic

Jurist and an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana

Jurist and diplomat

Jurist and former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa

Jurist and justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

Jurist and lawyer

Jurist and politician

Jurist and Supreme Court justice

Jurist from Lesotho

Jurist, law professor and politician

Justice of the Constitutional Court

Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

Lawyer

Lawyer and a former Chief Justice of Kenya

Lawyer and a justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya

Lawyer and academic

Lawyer and judge

Lawyer and jurist

Lawyer and the Chief Justice of Kenya

Lawyer currently

Lawyer, expert on public law and Islamic political theory

Lawyer, judge, politician, writer, and human rights activist

Lawyer, jurist, and women's rights activist

Lawyer, university educator and politician

Legal writer and colonial judge

Magistrate

Politician

Politician and judge

Politician and jurist

Politician and lawyer

Politician, lawyer and academic

Politician, lawyer, and judge

President of the Constitutional Court of Angola

Retired Israeli jurist

Retired judge

Retired South African judge

Retired Tanzanian lawyer and judge

Solicitor and Lawyer

Supreme Court Judge

Yoruba Nigerian jurist and a Chief Justice of Botswana