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Born Between c.1115 and 1120 • Lombardy • Italy
Died After 1198 • England
Notable Works “Liber pauperum”
Subjects Of Study Code of Justinian • Codex Constitutionum • Pandects • Roman law • canon law
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Alberico Gentili
Italian jurist
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
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Tribonian
Byzantine legal scholar
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Irnerius
Italian legal scholar
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Martinus Gosia
Italian jurist
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Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
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Dorotheus
Roman jurist
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Jacques Cujas
French jurist and scholar
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Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
German jurist and historian
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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Eduard Gans
German jurist
Sir Henry Maine.
Sir Henry Maine
British jurist, historian, and anthropologist
Gaius
Gaius
Roman jurist
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Marcus Antistius Labeo
Roman jurist
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Sir John Fortescue
English jurist
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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
German jurist
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Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman law scholar [died 82 BCE]
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Ulpian
Roman jurist
Papinian
Papinian
Roman jurist