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Flourished c.501 - c.550
Subjects Of Study jurisprudence • Basilica • Codex Constitutionum • Institutes • Pandects
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Tribonian
Byzantine legal scholar
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Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
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Vacarius
Roman law scholar
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Ulpian
Roman jurist
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
United States jurist
William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone
English jurist
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Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan
Tanya Sue Chutkan
American lawyer and jurist
Robert H. Bork
Robert H. Bork
United States jurist
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
United States jurist
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
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H.L.A. Hart
English philosopher, teacher, and author
Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
English legal scholar
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John Austin
English jurist
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Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Byzantine emperor
Basil I
Byzantine emperor
Sushila Karki
Sushila Karki
Nepali politician and judge
Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter smiling in his judicial robe against a dark background.
David Hackett Souter
United States jurist
John Jay
John Jay
United States statesman and chief justice