[{"n": "David Dudley Field II", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/david-dudley-field-ii/", "s": "American lawyer and law reformer who engineered the move from common law pleading to code pleading, enacting t"}, {"n": "Earl Warren", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/earl-warren/", "s": "14th chief justice and 30th governor of California."}, {"n": "Edward Coke", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/edward-coke/", "s": "The greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras"}, {"n": "Francesco Algarotti", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/francesco-algarotti/", "s": "Italian polymath, Newtonian popularizer, and opera reformer"}, {"n": "Garfield Barwick", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/garfield-barwick/", "s": "Seventh Chief Justice of Australia and former Liberal minister."}, {"n": "Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/geoffrey-lawrence-1st-baron-oaksey/", "s": "Lead British judge and President of the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg trials."}, {"n": "Hans Kelsen", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/hans-kelsen/", "s": "Austrian-American jurist known for the pure theory of law."}, {"n": "Jeremy Waldron", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/jeremy-waldron/", "s": "New Zealand legal philosopher and critic of judicial review."}, {"n": "Giovanni Falcone", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/giovanni-falcone/", "s": "Judge and prosecuting magistrate known for anti-Mafia work"}, {"n": "Richard Posner", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/richard-posner/", "s": "Influential judge and most-cited American legal scholar."}, {"n": "Roger B. Taney", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/roger-b-taney/", "s": "Fifth chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision."}, {"n": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/ruth-bader-ginsburg/", "s": "Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1993 to 2020."}, {"n": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/sandra-day-o-connor/", "s": "First woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as a moderate conservative swing vote."}, {"n": "Tom Denning, Baron Denning", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/tom-denning-baron-denning/", "s": "English barrister and judge, Master of the Rolls for 20 years, known for his report on the Profumo affair and "}, {"n": "William Kunstler", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-kunstler/", "s": "Controversial attorney and civil rights activist."}, {"n": "Ken Starr", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/ken-starr/", "s": "Independent counsel whose report led to Clinton's impeachment."}, {"n": "Louis Brandeis", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/louis-brandeis/", "s": "People's Lawyer and first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court justice"}, {"n": "René Cassin", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/ren-cassin/", "s": "French jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."}, {"n": "William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-murray-1st-earl-of-mansfield/", "s": "British jurist who reformed English law and advanced the abolition of slavery"}, {"n": "Rudolf von Gneist", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/rudolf-von-gneist/", "s": "German jurist and politician who shaped constitutional law."}, {"n": "Roland Freisler", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/roland-freisler/", "s": "The Nazi judge who presided over the People's Court and handed out over 5,000 death sentences."}, {"n": "Thurgood Marshall", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/thurgood-marshall/", "s": "First African-American Supreme Court justice and civil rights lawyer."}, {"n": "Derrick Bell", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/derrick-bell/", "s": "American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist; one of the originators of critical race theory."}, {"n": "Francis Lieber", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/francis-lieber/", "s": "Author of the first modern codification of the laws of war."}, {"n": "Gaius (jurist)", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/gaius-jurist/", "s": "Roman jurist whose Institutes shaped later legal education."}, {"n": "Gisèle Halimi", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/gis-le-halimi/", "s": "French lawyer and member of the Russell Tribunal who defended Algerian independence fighters."}, {"n": "Hugo Black", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/hugo-black/", "s": "Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971, known for his textualist approach and First Ame"}, {"n": "Hugo Grotius", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/hugo-grotius/", "s": "Dutch jurist who shaped international law and the idea of rights."}, {"n": "John Marshall Harlan", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/john-marshall-harlan/", "s": "Associate justice known for judicial restraint and a broad view of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau"}, {"n": "John Marshall", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/john-marshall/", "s": "Fourth chief justice who shaped the U.S. Supreme Court."}, {"n": "Learned Hand", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/learned-hand/", "s": "American jurist known for his writings on liberty and judicial restraint."}, {"n": "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/oliver-wendell-holmes-jr/", "s": "U.S. Supreme Court justice known for civil liberties opinions and legal realism."}, {"n": "Paolo Borsellino", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/paolo-borsellino/", "s": "Italian magistrate who fought the Sicilian Mafia."}, {"n": "Papinian", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/papinian/", "s": "Roman jurist whose views prevailed over four other great jurists."}, {"n": "Potter Stewart", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/potter-stewart/", "s": "Centrist Supreme Court justice and primary source for The Brethren."}, {"n": "Radhabinod Pal", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/radhabinod-pal/", "s": "Indian jurist who dissented at the Tokyo Trials."}, {"n": "Warren E. Burger", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/warren-e-burger/", "s": "15th Chief Justice who wrote United States v. Nixon opinion."}, {"n": "William Blackstone", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-blackstone/", "s": "English jurist whose Commentaries shaped common law."}, {"n": "William J. Brennan Jr.", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-j-brennan-jr/", "s": "Associate Justice of the U.S."}, {"n": "William O. Douglas", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-o-douglas/", "s": "Longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice and champion of civil liberties."}, {"n": "William Rehnquist", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-rehnquist/", "s": "16th Chief Justice of the United States"}, {"n": "William Stoughton (judge)", "u": "/e/jurists-and-legal-scholars/william-stoughton-judge/", "s": "Salem witch trial chief justice who never recanted spectral evidence."}]