Legal Scholars And Political Theorists Codexery

A source-cited reference to legal scholars and political theorists

Legal Scholars And Political Theorists (25)

• Alberico Gentili — Italian jurist and co-founder of international law, Regius Professor at Oxford.
• Antonin Scalia — Intellectual anchor for originalist and textualist jurisprudence on the Supreme Court.
• Ben Ferencz — American lawyer and chief U.S. Army prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg.
• Carl Schmitt — Controversial German jurist and Nazi legal theorist.
• Catharine A. MacKinnon — Feminist legal scholar who wrote Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989).
• Cesare Beccaria — Italian criminologist who condemned torture and the death penalty.
• Christopher Columbus Langdell — American jurist and legal academic, Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895
• Clarence Darrow — American lawyer famed for labor and criminal defense cases.
• James Madison — Founding Father, fourth president of the United States and "Father of the Constitution"
• John Austin — English legal theorist who developed a fully worked-out positivistic theory of law.
• John Rawls — American philosopher who revived normative political philosophy with A Theory of Justice.
• Karl Llewellyn — American legal realist and principal drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code.
• Lon Fuller — American legal philosopher who argued for law's internal morality.
• Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian of the Italian Renaissance
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. — U.S. Supreme Court justice and influential legal realist.
• Plato — Foundational Western philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle.
• Richard Posner — Most-cited legal scholar of the 20th century and influential appellate judge.
• Roscoe Pound — Legal scholar who criticized formalist approaches to the law in the early twentieth century.
• Thomas Aquinas — Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher
• Thomas Hobbes — English philosopher and political theorist, author of Leviathan.
• Václav Havel — Czech dissident, playwright, and post-communist president.
• William Blackstone — English jurist and author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England.
• Yoram Dinstein — President of Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1998.
• Zbigniew Brzezinski — Polish-American diplomat and political scientist, National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter
• Ziya Gökalp — Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician

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