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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

A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. 1

Role

4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Advocate General of Yangon Region

Attorney and politician

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 Palau

Attorney General of Panama

Attorney General of Paraguay

Attorney General of Peru

Civil servant and judge

Civil servant and social democratic politician

Criminologist

Former Attorney General of Croatia

Former jurist and politician

Governor of Salzburg state

Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Head of the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine

Historian, poet and Whig politician

Intellectual, jurist, and writer

Jurist

Jurist and legal scholar, Queen's Counsel, Dame

Jurist and politician

Jurist, law enforcement official, and politician

Jurist, politician, government minister and academic

Kurdish politician, lawyer and author

Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist

Landowner, jurist, civil servant, journalist, businessman

Lawyer and civil servant

Lawyer and politician

Lawyer, entrepreneur and aristocrat

Lawyer, former Advocate General of Yangon Region

Lawyer, human rights activist and politician

Lawyer, judge

Lawyer, politician and author

Lawyer, Whig politician, abolitionist and legal reformer

Legal Scholar

Magistrate, Attorney General of Monaco

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia

Notary and politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine

Political figure

Politician

Politician and diplomat

Politician and jurist

Politician and jurist, mayor of Gdynia

Politician and law academic

Politician and lawyer

Politician and Mayor of Addis Ababa

Politician, member of the National Council of Switzerland

Promoter of Justice of Vatican City State

Revolutionary and politician

Social reformer

Solicitor General of Malawi, Malawi Law Commissioner

Solicitor General of Malawi, Principal Secretary

Soviet lawyer and statesman

Statesman of the Meiji era

Statesman of the Meiji period

Statesman, diplomat, and legal scholar in Meiji period Japan

Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer

United States Representative from California (1975-2015)

United States Senator from Utah (1977-2019)

United States senator from Wisconsin, 1993-2011