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Ahmad Ghazali

The younger brother of the celebrated theologian, jurist, and Sufi, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, Aḥmad Ghazālī was born in a village near Tūs, in Khorasan.

Ambedkar

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian jurist, political leader, Buddhist activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India.

Blackerby Fairfax

, 12mo, London, 1703, a tract attributed to Matthew Hale, the foremost 17th-century jurist of English procedure.

Bob Vance

Bob Vance (jurist), American jurist who ran for Alabama Supreme Court against Roy Moore in 2012

Carlos Moreno

Carlos R. Moreno, U.S. jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of California

CUSA

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer

Decretum

The Decretum Gratiani is a collection of Canon law compiled in the twelfth century by a jurist named Gratian.

Doctrine of necessity

The maxim on which the doctrine is based originated in the writings of the medieval jurist Henry de Bracton, and similar justifications for this kind of extra-legal action have been advanced by more recent legal authorities, including William Blackstone.

Douglas L. Edmonds

Douglas L. Edmonds ( – May 10, 1962) was an American jurist, serving on the Supreme Court of California and the United Nation's International Law Commission.

Emmanuelle Jouannet

Jurist and philosopher, Emmanuelle Jouannet followed both program academics law and philosophy respectively at the Panthéon-Assas University and Paris-Sorbonne University.

Farris B. Streeter

Ferris B. Streeter (September 24, 1819-August 19, 1877) (his first name is sometimes spelled "Farris") was a Pennsylvania attorney, legislator and jurist who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury.

Father of medicare

Emmett Matthew Hall was a jurist and chair of the 1964 Royal Commission on health care in Canada which recommended the nationwide adoption of Saskatchewan's system of public insurance for both hospitalization and out-of-hospital medical services.

Fernando de Valdés y Salas

Fernando de Valdés y Salas, (Salas, Asturias, 1483-Madrid, 1568, aged 85) was a Spanish churchman and jurist, Professor of Canon Law at the University of Salamanca, and later its Chancellor.

George Bagley

George R. Bagley (1871–1939), American attorney and jurist in the state of Oregon

George W. Anderson

George Weston Anderson (1861–1937), American jurist, Federal judge from Massachusetts

Graybill

Henry Graybill Lamar (July 10, 1798 – September 10, 1861), United States Representative, lawyer and jurist from Georgia

Håkon

Håkon Haugli (born 1969), Norwegian jurist, administrator and politician for the Labour Party

House of Cerva

Toma Crijević or Tommaso Cerva (16th century) - Dominican, lawyer and outstanding jurist, was bishop of Trebinje and Mercana, director of the church of Ston between 1541 and 1559 and general vicar of the archbishop of Dubrovnik, Giovanni Angelo Medici, who became Pope Pius IV in 1559.

Islamic view of Jesus' death

Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr, an 11th-century Maliki jurist, writes that there have been differences of opinion on this issue and Sunnis accept the second coming of Jesus only through individual reports by narrators who are of sound character—a view supported by majority of Muslims (see Jesus' second coming).

J. G. A. Pocock

His first book, entitled The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law elucidated the common law mind, showing how thinkers such as the English jurist Edward Coke (1552–1634) built up a historical analysis of British history into an epistemology of law and politics; and then how that edifice later came to be subverted by scholars of the middle to late seventeenth century.

J. Meredith Read

J. Meredith Read was the son of Philadelphia jurist John M. Read.

James Addison Baker

James Baker (born 1930), American jurist, politician & diplomat

James Celebrezze

James Patrick Celebrezze (born February 7, 1938) is an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party, who served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, common pleas court (domestic relations division).

Jean Crespin

In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend François Baudouin under the leading jurist and advocate Charles Du Moulin, and became himself advocate at the Parlement of Paris.

Johannes Hermann

Thomaskantor from 1531 to 1536, he became the first Protestant Kantor of Freiberg, and a jurist in 1540.

John Lesinski

T. John Lesinski, politician and jurist from Wayne County, Michigan

Julius Mader

Julius Mader, alias Thomas Bergner, (born October 7, 1928 in the village of Radejčín, now part of Řehlovice in the Czech Republic, died May 17, 2000 in Berlin) was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.

Jus gentium

The 2nd-century Roman jurist Ulpian, however, divided law into three branches: natural law, which existed in nature and governed animals as well as humans; the law of nations, which was distinctively human; and civil law, which was the body of laws specific to a people.

Life unworthy of life

The expression first occurs in the title of a 1920 book, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Lebens (Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life) by jurist Karl Binding, retired from the University of Leipzig, and psychiatrist Alfred Hoche from the University of Freiburg, both professors.

Lutz Meyer-Goßner

Lutz Meyer-Goßner (born 10 July 1936 in Nienburg, Lower Saxony) is a German lawyer, jurist and law professor.

Mare clausum

In 1609 Hugo Grotius, a jurist of the Dutch Republic, formulated a new principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade.

Mark Fernando

Justice Mark Damien Hugh Fernando (27 February 1941 – 20 January 2009) was a jurist and former judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Marshall County, Tennessee

Marshall County was created in 1836 from parts of Giles, Bedford, Lincoln and Maury counties, and was named after the American jurist, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Matthias Abele

Matthias Abele von und zu Lilienberg (17 February, 1618 – 14 November, 1677) brother of Christoph Ignaz Abele, was a mine official and jurist in Steyer, Austria.

Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), American jurist who served as federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as first commissioner of organized baseball from 1920 until his death

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI (February 6, 1893 - September 1, 1985) was one of the leading Founding Fathers of modern Pakistan, politician, statesman, diplomat, international jurist, and a prominent scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Queen of Death

Lynne Abraham (born 1941), District Attorney of the City of Philadelphia, nicknamed "Queen of Death".

R. v. Sharpe

It began in 1995 when John Robin Sharpe was returning from a trip to Amsterdam where he had traveled to meet Edward Brongersma, a Dutch jurist and open advocate of pederastic boylove.

Reidsville, North Carolina

Susie Marshall Sharp was an American jurist who served as the first female Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court

Schenkl

Maurus von Schenkl (1749–1816), German Benedictine theologian and canon law jurist

Seyamak R. Payek

Payek is a Jurist Guardian Council of the Guardian Council of the Constitution of Iran in the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Sithmann

Johann Sithmann (1602–1666), German jurist, Professor of Pedagogy, and author

Smyrna, Delaware

The international jurist John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, as were politicians Louis McLane and James Williams.

Sonnleithner

Ignaz von Sonnleithner (1770-1831), Austrian jurist, writer and educator.

Svein Alsaker

By profession Alsaker was a jurist, having graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1964.

Tiberius Gracchus

He met with three prominent leaders: Crassus, the Pontifex Maximus, the consul and jurist Publius Mucius Scaevola, and Appius Claudius, his father-in-law.

TKM Bava Musliyar

After the demise of notable scholar EK Hasan Musliyar as the quazi (chief jurist) of Kasaragod, he was installed in throne in 1988, May 18 and served there until his demise.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

The UNCLOS replaces the older and weaker 'freedom of the seas' concept, dating from the 17th century: national rights were limited to a specified belt of water extending from a nation's coastlines, usually three nautical miles, according to the 'cannon shot' rule developed by the Dutch jurist Cornelius van Bynkershoek.

William Chilton

William Parish Chilton (1810-1871), Alabama lawyer, jurist and politician

Witherell

James Witherell (1759-1838), American politician and jurist in Vermont and Michigan


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