| Jurist Name |
During |
Nationality |
Known for |
| Benjamin L. Hooks |
1925 |
United States |
Elected Dr. Hooks executive director of the NAACP in 1976 |
| Byron R. White |
1917-2002 |
United States |
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Charles Evans Hughes |
1862-1948 |
United States |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910-1916) |
| David Davis |
1948 |
British |
Conservative Party Member of Parliament |
| Edward Coke |
1552-1634 |
British |
Seventeenth-century English jurist and Member of Parliament |
| Felix Frankfurter |
1882-1965 |
United States |
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. |
| Francis Lieber |
1880-1872 |
Germany |
Author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War |
| Frederic William Maitland |
1850-1906 |
British |
Domesday Book and Beyond |
| George Sutherland |
1862-1942 |
United States |
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1922-1938) |
| Henry de Bracton |
1210-1268 |
British |
The book on law - De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae |
| Horace Gray |
1882-1902 |
United States |
Great philanthropist to the City of Boston. |
| Hugo Black |
1937-1971 |
United States |
A member of the Democratic Party |
| John Austin |
1790-1859 |
British |
Published extensively concerning the philosophy of law and jurisprudence. |
| John Bradshaw |
1933 |
United States |
Motivational speaker and author best known for his PBS television programs |
| John Selden |
1584-1654 |
British |
Proposed an egoistic theory of moral motivation |
| Moses ben Maimon |
1134-1204 |
Spain |
He was the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
1841-1935 |
United States |
Served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932 |
| Richard Burdon Haldane |
1856-1928 |
Edinburgh |
Was an important British Liberal and Labour politician, lawyer, and philosopher. |
| Roscoe Pound |
1870-1964 |
United States |
Distinguished American legal scholar and educator. |
| Thomas Campbell Clark |
1899-1977 |
United States |
From 1945 to 1949 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1949–1967). |
| Thomas Hughes |
1822-1896 |
Berkshire |
Semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School |
| Thurgood Marshall |
1908-1993 |
United States |
First African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Vittorio Emanuele Orlando |
1860-1962 |
Italy |
Served as Minister of Education under Prime Minister Giolitti |
| William Blackstone |
1723-1780 |
British |
professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise on the common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. |
1906-1997 |
United States |
his outspoken liberal views, including opposition to the death penalty |
| William Orville Douglas |
1898-1980 |
United States |
was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice |
